The unexpected collapse of land surface due to subsidence is one the most significant geohazards that threatens human life and infrastructure. Kabudrahang Famenin are two Iranian plains experiencing several sinkholes characteristics underground soil layers extreme groundwater depletion. In this study, space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar images used investigate ground displacement behavior exam...

Background: Hospital preparedness for accidents and disasters is vital in maintaining promoting community health. However, the country’s hospitals are not well prepared disasters. The hospital safety index (HSI) was 42% Iranian 2014. This study aims to investigate HSI 2020 provide solutions improve it. Materials Methods: cross-sectional descriptive performed hospitals. results recorded Farsi ve...

Domestic tourism has an important role in socio-economic development in several ways including creating jobs and improving income distribution. Although several researcheshave been done on tourism demand, a small proportion of them have been on domestic tourism. In this paper, the price and expenditure elasticities of the household demand for domestic tourism in Iran, focusing on the case of Ha...

poor wheat stand establishment is a major cause of yield loss, particularly in rainfed and poorly irrigated environments. seeds of eight wheat cultivars (triticum aestivum l.) including irrigated and rainfed varieties, belonging to three different climates of iran (hamedan as cold, karaj as temperate and sarpolzohab as warm climates) were primed using osmoprimig treatments through use of urea ,...

BACKGROUND Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus, of which it's most prevalent form is chronic sensorimotor neuropathy. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and its associated risk factors among diabetic patients who reside in Hamedan, Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 600 types 1 and 2 diab...

Dioctophyma renale infection is found in a wide range of mammalian species, typically in temperate areas of the world. Here, we report for the first time, the parasitism of a domestic dog by D. renale in Hamedan, Iran, a mountainous cold region, lacking significant amounts of rainfall, high humidity and temperature. A 2.5 yr old male mixed breed dog was presented with a two months history of pr...

Medicinal plants have been investigated for possible anti-cancer effects. The aim of the present study was to examine the cytotoxic activity of several medicinal plants on different tumor cell lines. 11 selected plant species which have been used in folkloric prescriptions were collected from different sites of Hamedan district of Iran. The methanolic extracts of the plants were prepared and th...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections constitute a global health problem, leading to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and antimicrobial resistance patterns of nosocomial infections in edu-cational hospitals of Hamadan, western Iran. METHODS During a 1-year period from April 2006 to March 2007, all patients with cul-ture-proven nosocomial ...