OBJECTIVE Pregnancy is accompanied by profound alterations in thyroid economy and relative iodine deficiency. The aim of this study was to evaluate urinary iodine excretion of pregnant women in cities with adequate and more than adequate iodine intake. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed on schoolchildren and pregnant women in four cities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Urinary iod...

BACKGROUND Foods are enriched with variety of chemical elements. Some of these elements are necessary for human health. These elements enter in liquid, the cells and other organs, certain amount of these elements are essential for body organs to work properly. OBJECTIVES This research was conducted to compare the level of lead and cadmium contamination in garlic species planted in Ramhormoz a...

Recently, a framework to consider the overall architecture of enterprise information systems (EIS) such as the Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained increasing popularity in Japan. In this paper, we propose a city planning approach for an EIS comprised of EIS architecture and an EIS Scenario. Our proposed approach leverages the methodology of city planning in civil engineering to provide a fr...

Land use may be regarded as one of the most important factors affecting theenvironment with respect to human activities. So far, destroying the rangelands andchanging them into the waste lands and poor rangelands has been proposed as the mostsignificant variations of land use done by human beings. This paper has been conducted toevaluate the variations of vegetation percentage and land uses in ...