The ant species list of Iran is far from complete. So far, only 110 species belonging to 26 genera have been recorded from Iran. For this study, we collected the majority of ant material in two periods of field work in spring and summer of 2007 and 2008. In total, we checked more than 35,000 specimens, and recorded 32 species and six genera new to Iran: Dolichoderus, Myrmecina, Proformica, Pyra...

lstituto Beni Culturali (Institute for Cultural Heritage) is the cultural institution of Regione Emilia Romagna. IBC web site [6] has been completely revised in cooperation with Hypermedia Open Center [S], the laboratory of the Electronics and Information Department at Politecnico di Milano. We adopted W2000 model for requirements analysis and for the analysis and organization of the applicatio...

OBJECTIVE In Iran thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) based neonatal screening program is included in health care services from 2005 for detection of patients with primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH). This study was performed for a critical evaluation of the screening program primary congenital hypothyroidism in Fars province, Iran. METHODS From November 2006 to September 2007, TSH serum con...

BACKGROUND No data is available on morphology and genetic characteristics of Echinococcus granulosus derived from donkeys of Iran, despite of its existence in donkeys. In the present study morphometric variations of the rostellar hooks of protoscoleces and genotype characteristics of hydatid cyst of donkey from Iran were determined. METHODS Protoscoleces prepared from hydatid cyst of donkey o...

OBJECTIVES The population in Iran is a genetic admixture of the ancestral Aryan and other populations neighboring Iran. Different ethnic groups in Iran show wide regional distributions for many human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Therefore, it is necessary and sensible to study the differences in HLA allele distribution in different area. We studied the HLA class I and II allele frequencies ...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common parasitic disease transmitted by vectors in Iran. CL is endemic in many urban and rural parts of Iran and usually caused by two species of Leishmania as L. major and L. tropica transmitted to humans from parasite reservoirs by the bite of female sandflies. We report a case of ocular leishmaniasis with eyelid involvement presentation. The patient w...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women (DeVita, 2008) and early diagnosis is obviously the effective way for saving patients and plays an essential role to improve prognosis (Yarbrough and Braden, 2001; Lu, 2001). Iranian women are not excepted from this rule, as it has the high prevalence rate in Iran with increasing trend along recent decade (Center for Disease Control and Pr...

Crystabelline representations are of the absolute Galois group $$\smash {G_{\mathbb {Q}_p}}$$ over {\smash {\overline{\mathbb {Q}}_p}}$$ that become crystalline on {G_{F}}$$ for some abelian extension {F/\mathbb {Q}_p}$$ . Their relation to modular forms is representation associated with a finite slope newform level divisible by {p^2}$$ crystabelline. In this article, we study connection betwee...