Background: Non-melanocytic skin cancers (NMSC) including basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are mostly induced by long life sun ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Although many etiological factors are known in skin cancer, the role of sunlight is the most prominent. Khuzestan is one of the southern provinces of Iran, which has sunny sky and long summer. So it is presumed th...

Health informatics is a relatively new research area. Over the last decade or so, research in health information has been growing at a very rapid rate, as evidenced by the large number of publications. While this growth has been beneficial to the field, it has also made understanding the scope of the field more difficult. Consequently, it is difficult to answer questions such as how the researc...

Two stocks of grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella Val were collected from North, Mazandran and South, Khuzestan to compare some morphometric and meristic characters. The Khuzestan stocks were significantly greater in body length, intestine length and number of vertebrae than the Mazandran stocks (p<0.05). The body width, depth of Mazandran were higher but gill raker lower than another stock. The...

Grape (Vitis sp.) belonging to Family Vitaceae is a commercially important fruit crop of India. It temperate which has got adapted sub-tropical climate peninsular Viticulture billion dollar agricultural sector in India, where new unidentified insect pest species can disrupt management practices. We report herein on associated with vineyards, the carpenter moth Zeuzera leuconotum (Butler). appea...