Extensive arsenic contamination of groundwater, rivers, and agricultural farms has led to widespread poisoning consequent problems associated with health economy. In recent years, many studies have been performed understand bacterial detoxification metabolism which paved the way for bioremediation applications. This study attempted isolate characterize arsenic-resistant bacteria from drying Urm...

Compared with common dust storms, saline dust storms transport high concentrations of fine-grain saline and alkaline material. The saline dust storm differs from common dust storm, especially considering the sources of the suspended particulate matter (PM), chemical composition, grain size, and circulation processes. Atmospheric particulate matters (TSP, PM10, PM2.5, and PM1) and their water-so...

Urmia Lake has been designated as an international park by the United Nations. The lake occupies a 5700 km2 depression in northwestern Iran. Thirteen permanent rivers flow into the lake. Water level in the lake has been decreased 3.5 m in the last decade due to a shortage of precipitation and progressively dry climate. Geologically the lake basin is considered to be a graben of tectonic origin....

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

this survey was carried out to determine the infection rate of coenurus cerebralis in urmiaabattoir, west azerbaijan, iran. a total of 402 sheep heads were examined and the number ofc. cerebralis cysts per each head was recorded. thirty three sheep heads were examined eachmonth during 12 months from 2006 to 2007. of 402 heads, a number of 75 heads (18.65%)were infected with c. cerebralis. the c...

evaluating patient safety culture in personnel of academic hospitals in urmia university of medical sciences in 2011     baghaei r [1] , nourani d [2] * , khalkhali hr [3] , pirnejad h [4]     received: 10 oct , 2011 accepted: 2 jan , 2012   abstract   background & aims : healthcare organizations in iran are striving to improve patient safety and quality of care through implementation of safety...

survey of obesity, underweight, physical activity level and dietary consumption among male students in guidance schools of makoo    didarloo a [1] , azizzadeh t [2] * , gharaaghaji asl r [3] , alizade m [4] , khorami a [5] , pourali r [6]     received: 4 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jun, 2013    abstract  background & aims : overweight and underweight are health threatening factors. the first step in...

evaluation of predisposing factors of nursing errors in critical care units of urmia medical science university hospitals     bagaei r [1] *, nadari y [2] , khalkhali hr [3]     received: 1 mar, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : p atient safety is an important part of the nursing management. but with this huge amount of nursing errors, patient safety seems out of reac...