Background and Aims: Avian influenza (AI) is an acute infectious disease of poultry, waterfowl, wild birds, and animals, zoonotically transmitted to humans. Some incidents of HPAI are reported in Iran: H5N1 and H5N8. Iranian Veterinary Organization decides on vaccination (H5) of layer and breeder flocks in high-risk provinces following the outbreak in Iran. This study aimed to evaluate the seru...

Abstract Knockdown resistance (kdr) is a common mechanism of insecticide in head lice to the conventionally used pyrethroid pediculosis and can be result various amino acid substitutions within voltage-sensitive sodium channel (VSSC). In this study, 54 sequences from varied specimens were investigated monitor well-known mutations probable new mutations. The Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer col...

Copyright © 2014, Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM); Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are many references in ancient Iranian literature on...

Paying attention to the health of people in the community is one of the main challenges that has received much attention in recent years. Regarding the importance of the healthcare sector in the life of the community, evaluation of the performance of this sector is important. One of the most practical methods for evaluating performance is the use of data envelopment analysis approach. In this p...

Iranian traditional architecture is one of the world's architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the p...

To assess genetic diversity and maternal origin of Turkish and Iranian native chicken breeds, we analyzed the mtDNA D-loop sequences of 222 chickens from 2 Turkish (Denizli and Gerze) and 7 Iranian (White Marandi, Black Marandi, Naked Neck, Common Breed, Lari, West Azarbaijan, and New Hampshire) native chicken breeds, together with the available reference sequences of G. gallus gallus in GenBan...

n Iran, road traffics injuries (RTIs) rank as the second leading cause of death and are one of the most important public health problems,1 which affect health and life expectancy in the whole country. In order to deal with the problem, the Iranian Parliament has recently passed a national policy to reduce the number of fatal RTIs by 55% in all provinces within ten years.2 Any plan for preventiv...

To visualize the structure of Iranian chemistry scientific publications in SciSearch, 43 Iranian and International chemists were identified. They were the highly cited scientists in 7682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index during the period from 1990 to 2006. Co-citation data for these authors from the...