1. Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran 4. Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Research Ce...

Citation: Maaz TM, Schillinger WF, Machado S, Brooks E, Johnson-Maynard JL, Young LE, Young FL, Leslie I, Glover A, Madsen IJ, Esser A, Collins HP and Pan WL (2017) Impact of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies on Winter Wheat and Cropping System Performance across Precipitation Gradients in the Inland Pacific Northwest, USA. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:23. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00023 Impact of C...

Soil degradation has been a very serious problem for sustainable production, especially by a re-cropping of greenhouse-cultivated cucumber (Cucumis statirus L.). The aim of this research was to expound the actuality for soil degradation, at the same time, put forward some suggestion for preventing from soil degradation and maintain sustainable production in greenhouse basic on the two experimen...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a well-known consequence of chronic liver disease (CLD). The aim of this study was to extract the HCC incidence rate in the province of Kerman, located in southern part of Iran, and compare the data with other parts of the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS All medical records related to HCC were collected through hospitals or outpatient servi...

1Virology Research Group, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 3HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman,...

Agriculture in rainfed dry areas is often challenged by inadequate water and nutrient supplies. Summerfallowing has been used to conserve rainwater and promote the release of nitrogen via the N mineralization of soil organic matter. However, summerfallowing leaves land without any crops planted for one entire growing season, creating lost production opportunity. Additionally, summerfallowing ha...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Continuous services provision of a hospital before and after a disaster is one of the most prominent issues that all people, especially the authorities must take into huge consideration. Concerning the experiences of previous earthquakes, the role and importance of nonstructural components becomes increasingly clear in the uninterrupted services of hospitals. In this st...

The premise of this paper is to design an interface that can detect human face and obtain the face images which have normalized intensity, uniform size and shape. In this paper a system is developed for face extraction and cropping from consecutive video frames. The developed system can be divided into two main parts. First is face detection and extraction, second is normalization and cropping ...

BACKGROUND This year's new H1N1 flu strain has rapidly become a serious threat worldwide. This pandemic calls for urgent preparedness to mitigate its impact as much as possible. Employing this knowledge, we simulated a model of the outbreak of H1N1 in two cities of Iran (middle size: Kerman and metropolitan: Tehran). METHODS We developed a compartmental model to predict the expected number of...