Streamflows in a Mediterranean mountain basin in the central Spanish Pyrenees were projected under various climate and land use change scenarios. Streamflow series projected for 2021-2050 were used to simulate the management of the Yesa reservoir, which is critical to the downstream supply of irrigation and domestic water. Streamflows were simulated using the Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation ...

Accurate prediction of the water level in a reservoir is crucial to optimizing the management of water resources. A neuro-fuzzy hybrid approach was used to construct a water level forecasting system during flood periods. In particular, we used the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to build a prediction model for reservoir management. To illustrate the applicability and capab...

Golestan Province in northeastern Iran has one of the highest rates of esophageal squamous cell cancer in the world. This article reviews the studies conducted on esophageal squamous cell cancer in this area and summarizes the data on epidemiologic patterns, incidence trends, and etiology of esophageal squamous cell cancer in this province.

Department of Cardiac surgery, Atherosclerosis Research Center and Imam Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Department of anesthesiology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences-Yazd, Iran Department of Cardiac surgery, Atherosclerosis Research Center Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran *Correspondence: E-ma...

Decision problems in water resources management are usually stochastic, dynamic and multidimensional. MDP models have been used since the early fties for the planning and operation of reservoir systems because the natural water in ows can be modeled using Markovian stochastic processes and the transition equations of mass conservation for the reservoir storages are akin to those found in invent...

The assessment of the quantitative and qualitative changes, the result of the impacts imposed by natural factors, and human interventions during specific sampling periods has a substantial influence on nature, management method and tending operation of every region’s forests. The present research was carried out in Golestan province forests (Iran) over an 11- year period and the obtained statis...

population growth can greatly impact on greenhouse gas emission pattern in the future. considering the importance of population growth in climate change studies, the present research concentrates on the population growth of the middle east in the late 21th century based on the iiasa population scenarios. under the projections of a1-b1 scenario, the world’s population will grow up to 8.7 billion...

the evaluation of ecological characteristics of wildlife species has fundamental role in species management, because taking a decision for proper method of management is only possible by characterizing of ecological requirements of a species. in this study, suitable habitat of middle spotted woodpecker was investigated in golestan national park. presence and absence of birds and environmental v...

cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) as a unique crop in natural fiber production has an important role in texture industry. it has also a large share in oil production for human nutrition and as a protein concentrate for animal feeding. therefore, cotton role in job opportunities in agriculture, industry and business divisions are undeniable. in order to determine the share of each direct and indire...

OBJECTIVES Anaemia is an important public health problem in Iran; therefore, a programme of flour fortification with iron was launched in two pilot provinces. The present study was conducted in January 2009 to evaluate the effectiveness and process of this programme. STUDY DESIGN A 'before-and-after study' was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the flour fortification programme, and t...