14,849 affected cases of beta thalassemia have been registered in 1995 in all provinces of iran. it is estimated that there are about three million carriers in iran. the provincial distributions of the affected cases show that the highest incidence in 100 thousand individuals was in mazandaran (71.29) and gilan (57.61), respectively, both near the caspian sea (north), followed by hormozgan (50....

Background Infant formula means a breast-milk substitute specially manufactured to satisfy, by itself, the nutritional requirements of infants during the first months of life up to the introduction of appropriate complementary feeding. We aimed to determine the cost and burden of formula feeding on the family in Al-Amara city, Iraq. Materials and Methods A cross-sectional analytic study was car...

hadula vassilinini (o. bang haas, 1927) was collected in crop fields' areas of khuzestan province, south-west iran. adults and genitalia are illustrated, with notes on bionomy and distribution. this is the first record of this species from iran with description of the previously undescribed female.

Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages, peoples and cultures. It is the mirror of the world and its memory. But this memory is fragile. Every day, irreplaceable parts of this memory disappear for ever. A considerable proportion of the world's documentary heritage disappears through ‘natural’ causes: acidified paper crumbles away, leather, parchment, film and magnetic tape are ...

Hydatidosis is endemic disaese in south of Iraq , zinc level are detected in sera of patient and hydatid cyst fluid by atomic absorption technique in colleges of Basrah university , the present study found that the zinc levels were increase in sera of patient when compare with control whom are not infected with disaese . so the levels of zinc are also increase or high in hydatid cyst fluid .

Corresponding author: Yingkun Guo MD Department of Radiology West China Second University Hospital Sichuan University 20# South Renmin Road 610041 Sichuan, China Phone: +86 28 855503275(0) E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China 2 Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichua...

islam, christianity and judaism belong to the same family and are named semitic religions. regarding to this similarity, it is very important to survey the situation of christianity and the range of influence in the arabian peninsula in particular western part and hedjaz contemporaneous the rise of islam. this survey helps to more understanding of the events of early islam, particularly interac...

Britain has a relatively good track record in counterinsurgency (COIN).1 But as one journalist commented in 2008: “the war in Iraq has been one of the most disastrous wars ever fought by Britain. It has been small, but we achieved nothing.”2 Although this view can be contested, it is clear that, if judged in terms of the original aim, Britain’s achievements fell far short of expectations set in...

M. Saadat,1,2,* F. E. Fish,3 A. G. Domel,4 V. Di Santo,1 G. V. Lauder,1 and H. Haj-Hariri2 1Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA 3Department of Biology, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19383, USA 4Schoo...