introduction atmosphere health is an important environmental issue and air pollution is not a local problem in a given area of the world. particles produced by either humans or the nature enter the atmosphere and return the earth’s surface at local, regional, or global scales after physico-chemical interactions. according to the reports by who, each year 2.4 million people lose their lives worl...

BACKGROUND According to increase in elderly populations, and change in lifestyle and cancer-causing behavior, the global burden of cancer is increasing. For prevention and control of disease, knowledge of population statistics of cancers and their trends is essential. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology and trends of cancer in the province of Kerman: southeast of Iran. MATERIALS ...

BACKGROUND Dyspepsia is a common disorder that can present many clinical dilemmas in patient management. Although not usually life-threatening, its symptoms such as abdominal pain, heartburn, early satiety and postprandial fullness can have a significant negative impact on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dyspepsia and its associat...

BACKGROUND Few studies worldwide have shown that climate factors such as temperature and humidity may contribute to injuries and sudden death. However, to the best of our knowledge no studies have been conducted on climate and traumatic deaths in Iran. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between temperature and humidity and trauma deaths in Kerman, Iran. MAT...

This paper presents an optimization of a solar chimney power plant with an inclined collector roof using genetic algorithms. Five design parameters that affect the system performance are the collector radius, collector inlet height, collector outlet height, chimney height and diameter. A multi-objective design to simultaneously optimize three conflicting objectives including system efficiency, ...

BACKGROUND Intellectual disability (ID) has a worldwide prevalence of 1-3% and results from extraordinary heterogeneous. To shed more light on the causes of ID in Kerman Province, in Southeast Iran, we set out in 2008 to perform systematic clinical studies and homozygosity mapping in large Iranian families with ID. METHODS Fifty seven families with a minimum of two mentally retarded children ...

Introduction: Hospital waste is one of the most dangerous environmental contaminants. Several studies have shown that although hospital waste disposal has improved in comparison to the past, but it is still not satisfactory in many developing countries. In this study we intent to study the quantity and quality of hospital waste in Kerman Province, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was p...

Process optimization is one of the most important activities in today's competitive industries. the rather high cost of research and development has necessitated the development of experimental methods by which the factors affecting processes&#10could be determined with minimum number of experiments. Over the last two decades, various types of experimental designs have been used. Among the diff...

In a device with a superconductor coupled to two parallel quantum dots (QDs) the electrical tunability of the QD levels can be used to exploit nonclassical current correlations due to the splitting of Cooper pairs. We experimentally investigate the effect of a finite potential difference across one quantum dot on the conductance through the other completely grounded QD in a Cooper pair splitter...