mountainous rangeland ecosystems have a highly delicate position in ecologic areabecause of severe environmental conditions and having wildlife and livestock. knowing andrealizing the biotic and abiotic components, which have an interaction with each other in thisecosystem, perform the most important role in to desirable management of it. the systematicmanagement is one of the managing features...

introduction: intraoperative radiation therapy device (iort) is one of the several options for partial breast irradiation. iort is sent to the tumor bed during surgery and can be replaced with conventional standard therapy (ebrt). the aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of iort machine compared with ebrt and to determine the dominant option in terms of the cost-effect...

this world; though all the discussions are focused on the causal relationships in allthe scientific arguments. one of the methods to study the designed causal relationshipsobjectively is granger causality test. this paper aims to investigate the longtermcausal relationship between the stock price and dividends. the statisticalpopulation includes 180 active companies in stock exchange of tehran ...

abstract: in contrast to traditional reviews, systematic reviews explore theliterature on a specific topic comprehensively using a well-defined protocol and recruit the findings of eligible studies after the assessment of their qualities, using a clear and reproducible method. checking the assumptions, we may merge the findings of recruited studies in a systematic review and use metaanalysis te...

conclusions in conclusion, toxicological studies showed that, although contamination level in caspian sea fishes was relatively low, the present status might pose a risk about food chain contamination. results the review showed that nine studies were recorded in databases about pesticide residues in caspian sea fish tissues. these studies reported that there is limited evidence of organochlorin...

noise-induced hearing loss, which is one of the 10 leading occupational diseases, is a debilitating and irreversible disease. during the recent 15-years period (1997-2012), several studies have investigated the association between noise, hearing damage and other side effects of noise in iran. the aim of this study was to review systematically the relevant literature related to noise-induced hea...

background and aim: pediatric obesity and overweight have become worldwide epidemics. iran is not an exemption in this regard. in the last decade, numerous studies have been conducted in iran in relation to obesity in children, and an increasing rate of obesity has been reported in the iranian context. some of these studies have included an extensive domain covering several provinces, while oth...

this study shows that ichonology can be used to refine sequence stratigraphy as well as to interpret the depositional environment of the kalat formation (upper maastrichtian) in the central kopeh- dagh basin (ne iran), dareh-gaz section. field studies and petrography of these deposits led to recognize four lithofacies and nine subfacies that formed in the tidal flat (lithofacies a), lagoon (lit...

There have been many disagreements regarding the depositional environment of Oligocene Tajau Sandstone Member Kudat Formation, Northern Sabah. We present here, first detailed sedimentary facies analysis for Member, exposed on Peninsula. The identified are interpreted as deposits subaqueous sediment density flows, which common processes in deep marine settings. These include debrites, hyperconce...