Introduction:Early identification of women, who are at risk of malnutrition, is effective for the prevention and management of complications. Maternal body mass index (BMI) in the first prenatal checkup can be an indicator of the nutritional status of pregnant women. This study aimed to review the BMI status of pregnant women during the first prenatal checkup at healthcare facilities in rural a...

Climate-related hazards such as sand and dust storms (SDS) have various impacts on human health, socio-economy, environment, agroecosystems. Iran has been severely affected by domestic external SDS during the last two decades. Considering fragile economy of Iran’s rural areas strong dependence livelihood agroecosystems, cause serious damage to communities. Therefore, there is an urgent need con...

α-amylases are one of the most common and important industrial enzymes widely used in various industries. The present study was conducted with aim isolating identifying symbiotic α-amylase enzyme-producing bacteria intestine Silago Sihama Rasterliger Canagorta fish living Qeshm Island, Hormozgan. intestinal these species were isolated using nutrient agar culture medium; then, producing screened...

Background and Objectives: Nowadays health-oriented lifestyle is the best way for prevention and having a healthy lifearound the world. Therefore it is necessary to identify and strengthen the factors that improve lifestyle. As a result, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of Islamic instructional-based spiritual-religious psychotherapy on health-oriented lifestyle in female students of Hor...

The objective of this study was to determine the genetic diversity among Chrysoperla carnea samples collected from different locations Iran (including, East-Azerbaijan, West-Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Gilan, Hormozgan and Hamedan provinces) using Inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) mitochondrial (Cytochrome Oxidase I - COI) molecular markers in 2016-2018. res...