In this data article, we determined the concentration levels of heavy metals including Pb, Co, Cd, Mn, Mg, Fe and Cu as well as selected anions including [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in the most used and popular herbal distillates in Iran. It is well known that heavy metals may pose a serious health hazard due to their bioaccumulation th...

Pyridostigmine bromide (PB) is a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor used routinely in the treatment of myasthenia gravis and recently by the US Army as a prophylactic agent against potential nerve gas attack in the Persian Gulf War. Pyridostigmine has been implicated as one of several possible causative factors associated with Persian Gulf illnesses. To investigate toxic interactions between P...

Military nursing service during wartime represents significant contributions to a unique type of health care. The purposes of this study were to: (1) generate themes that elucidate combat nursing experiences, (2) honor nurses who served by sharing their stories, and (3) permanently archive accounts of nursing personnel who served during the Persian Gulf Wars during the late 20th and early 21st ...

Objectives. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian LupusQoL for the evaluation of quality of life in Iranian systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Methods. The LupusQoL was translated to Persian language. Patients with SLE (n = 78) completed the LupusQoL and the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Disease activity and cumulative disease damage were assessed with standard i...

International power is under profound transition, marked by a move towards deep pluralism in the international system whereby range of middle powers have begun to stake greater claim regional power. This shift escalating struggle between United States and China. Both Beijing Tehran share strategic plan undermine US global hegemony, both encountered tensions, sanctions, pressures originating fro...

A new species, Elasmopus alkhiranensis allied to E. pectenicrus is described from the Persian Gulf. Recent collections identify this species as having a morphological variation previously unreported in Elasmopus.

Tajik Persian is a dialect of Persian spoken primarily in Tajikistan and written with a modified Cyrillic alphabet. Iranian Persian, or Farsi, as it is natively called, is the lingua franca of Iran and is written with the Persian alphabet, a modified Arabic script. Although the spoken versions of Tajik and Farsi are mutually intelligible to educated speakers of both languages, the difference be...

The present study is aim to assess the performance of the Persian Gulf Marine Passenger Terminal by using EFQM Excellence Model. The descriptive kind may seem the best appropriate frame for this study and it is conducted in all parts of the Persian Gulf Marine Passenger Terminal. For collecting the data we used the EFQM standard questionnaire. according to the 5 Enablers criteria in the such as...