in recent years, studying the dietary preferences and livestock grazing behaviorhas attracted lots of attention due to manage and improve the efficiency of rangelands. so,in this study the foraging behavior and diet selection of tali goat was investigated in thechabahar rangeland during 2008-2010. data were collected and analyzed for speeds oflivestock, covered distance, time of grazing, restin...

background: anopheles mosquitoes are an important group of arthropods due to their role in transmission of ma­laria. the present study was conducted for determination of susceptibility status of anopheles stephensi to different imagicides collected from malarious area in chabahar city, iran. methods: in the present study seven insecticides including: ddt 4%, lambdacyhalothrin 0.05%, deltamethri...

BACKGROUND: Several health conditions and concerns have been reported to be increased among Gulf War veterans including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), CFS-like illness, and unexplained multi-symptom illness (MSI). As the cohort of Gulf War veterans advance in age, they are likely to be at risk of not only certain deployment-related health conditions but a...

Population density, distribution and biomass of macrobenthic fauna in Chabahar Bay were investigated from May 1995 to March 1996 on a bimonthly basis. The most abundant groups were Amphipods (21%), Polychaetes (19%), Gastropods (15.7%) and Bivalves (10.6%). Maximum (13000 individuals/m2) and minimum (4600 individuals/m2) were observed in May and July respectively. The changes in density were in...

BACKGROUND UK veterans of the Gulf War report more ill health than servicemen who were not deployed to the Gulf War. We investigated whether the pattern of symptom reporting by veterans of the Gulf War differed from that in active servicemen who had not fought in the Gulf War or who had fought in other conflicts. METHODS We used a population-based cross-sectional design. We sent a standardise...

BACKGROUND The aim was to determine the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia in UK military personnel after the Gulf War 1990-1991. METHOD A two-phase cohort study was used. Three randomly selected subsamples identified from a population-based cross-sectional postal survey of over 10,000 current and ex-service UK military personnel (Gulf veterans were...

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