background patients with thalassemia major and intermedia are susceptible to osteopenia and osteoporosis. the mechanism of osteoporosis in these patients is multifactorial. transfusion related iron overload in endocrine organs leads to impaired growth hormone secretion, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, lack of sex steroids and vitamin d deficiency that contribute to impair...

The angular Instantaneous Field Of View (IFOV) of rotating mirror is constant in flying spot scanners and as a result the more area is viewed by mirror with going out of nadir condition and it will cause gradually compression of the effective pixel size at the extremities of scan line. This error is known as panoramic error that is so more sensible in sensors which have high angular Field Of Vi...

Introduction: The most common cutaneous fungal infections are caused by dermatophyte fungi such as Microsporum, Trichophyton, and Epidermophyton. In this study, the epidemiologic trends predominant organisms causing dermatophytosis in Urmia, Northwest Iran, were identified.Aims objectives: To get better perception of distribution authors studied identification isolated dermatophytes from human ...

the objective of this research was to study barriers of starting and expanding home based businesses in rural areas of urmia county. the research was an applied research and a descriptive research in terms of goal and method of data collection, respectively. the target population of the research consisted of all rural residents who were owners of registered and approved home based businesses in...

To investigate the prevalence of smoking, asthma and asthma-related symptoms in relation to age, sex and smoking behaviour in Urmia, we carried out a cross-sectional study in 2004 using the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease questionnaire, which includes some questions on smoking. We surveyed 2987 adults aged 20-44 years. Prevalence of wheeze, breathlessness with wheezing...

there is a little room for doubt that lake urmia, which is the second largest permanent hyper saline lake in the world,is currently suffering from a lack of appropriate management strategy. accordingly, this study was done using the swotmatrix to analyze the key factors affecting declining water levels and increasing salinity. results of group decisionmakingby brainstorming among a group of exp...

Urartu is one of the powers beginning first millennium B. C., which has been located in Turkey, Armenia and north-west Iran, competing strongly with New Assyrian Empire encountering to local government Mannea, dominated on some parts Urmia Lake. The presence can be seen architectural remains areas like Bastam Hasanlu. But, cultural effect this great power its affection physical remains, compreh...

hedgehogs are small, nocturnal mammals that become popular in the world and have significant role in transmission of zoonotic agents. some of the agents are transmitted by ticks and fleas such as rickettsial agents. for these reason, a survey on ectoparasites in european hedgehog (erinaceus europaeus) carried out between april 2006 and december 2007 from different parts of urmia city, west azer...