the aim of this study was investigating the characteristic and outcome of self-immolation cases admitted to the burn centre of birjand, iran over an eight year period. this study is a retrospective review of case notes for patients with self-immolation and admitted to our referral burn centre in the last 8 years (january 2003-january 2011). a performa was designed to collect the data such as: d...

background: esophageal carcinoma is one of the most lethal gastrointestinal (gi) malignant tumors worldwide.  the disease is known to have a high incidence in northern iran; however, its condition in the south is not much clear.   objective: in this retrospective study we investigated the epidemiology and time trends of esophageal carcinoma in fars province, south of iran.   methods : in a retr...

Drought monitoring is a fundamental component of drought risk management. It is normally performed usingvarious drought indices that are effectively continuous functions of rainfall and other hydrometeorological variables.In many instances, drought indices are used for monitoring purposes. Geostatistical methods allow the interpolationof spatially referenced data and the prediction of values fo...

There are many published paper regarding roles of Sergentomyia genus in the transmission of infectious diseases in the different countries. Maleh area of Shoush County, south-west of Iran was studied from point of Sergentomyia faunestic in this research project. In the current research study 6 species of Sergentomyia were recognized of 486 collected sand flies. Therefore, it is concluded that f...

In the past decades, cardiovascular diseases were the most common causes of death around the world and in Iran (1, 2). Various factors play an important role in the incidence of CVD; such as environmental, personal as well as lifestyle. We studied the geographical distribution of 19142 CVD deaths f r o m 2004 -2010 in South Khorasan. The mean age of the deceased was 59.3±28.9 years. 28.5% death...

Present paper includes the result of new expeditions carried out in order to collect Noctuidae from Khabr National Park, Kerman, south Iran. The description a Polymixis species, (Eremophysa) fakherehsabae Shirvani, sp. nov. is given. species compared with its close relatives, besides, bionomic and distribution P. are presented together adult male genitalia illustrations. Provincial belonging su...