Despite a successful national salt iodinization programme, endemic goitre still persists in Iranian children. In a cross-sectional study in Arak the prevalence of goitre was 5.2% in a sample of 6520 primary-school children. Subsamples of 193 children with goitre and 151 healthy children were assessed for urinary iodine excretion, thyroid hormone profile, insulin-like growth factor-1 (ICF-1) and...

The present paper concerns with the effect of initial stress on the propagation of plane waves in a rotating transversely isotropic medium in the context of thermoelasticity theory of GN theory of type-II and III. After solving the governing equations, three waves propagating in the medium are obtained. The fastest among them is a quasi-longitudinal wave. The slowest of them is a thermal wave. ...

We consider the so-called length-interacting Arak-Surgailis polygonal Markov fields with V-shaped nodes – a continuum and isometry invariant process in the plane sharing a number of properties with the two-dimensional Ising model. For these polygonal fields we establish a low-temperature phase separation theorem in the spirit of the Dobrushin-Kotecký-Shlosman theory, with the corresponding Wulf...

Background: Medicinal plants use is growing in Iran and controlling their quality in terms of contamination with toxic metals is critical. City of Arak, due to its large industrial plants, is one of the most polluted cities of Iran these pollutants can be transferred to the farms. Methods: In this study, concentrations of metals such as aluminum, arsenic, lead and cadmium are measured by atomic...

The dynamic stability of a composite plate with external electrorheological (ER) damper subjected to an axial periodic load is investigated. Electrorheological fluids are a class of smart materials, which exhibit reversible changes in mechanical properties when subjected to an electric field. As a result, the dynamic behavior of the structure is changed. The ER damper is used for suppressing th...

introduction evaporation is a phenomenon of hidrological cycle that is particularly important in studies of water. much of the annual rainfall in arid and semi-arid weather characteristics that iran immediately returns to the atmosphere. so it will be important to estimate and predict the amount of evaporated to estimate of water. dez basin in south-west iran, where the country's main cent...