Measuring and Analyzing Adaptive Capacity of Socio-Ecological System in the Face Declining Groundwater Aquifers (Studied Area: Kazerun Plain)

background the non-revenue water refers to a difference between the volume of water entering the system and billed authorized consumption. objectives the main purpose of this study is to determine the volume of non-revenue water in order to recognize the factors influencing water losses so that the information gathered can used in non-revenue water reduction management. materials and methods ka...

INTRODUCTION Studies on the relationship between prenatal psychosocial risk factors and breastfeeding are disjointed. Maternal health status has a great influence on breastfeeding, growth, and general health of the neonates. The aim of this study was to ascertain the relation between maternal mental health and breastfeeding status of mothers in Kazerun (Fars province, Iran). METHODS This cros...

The Spanish Flu was one of the disasters in history Iran, especially Southern which led to death a significant number people Iran. It started on October 29, 1917, and lasted till 1920 – disaster that we can claim changed history. In First World War battlefields southern Iran 1918, there nothing left until end I when battle between Iranian warriors (especially Dashtestan Tangestan Bushehr, Arabs...

The most enigmatic problems with the nearly 200 salt domes pierced in the Persian Gulf and in the Zagros Mountain Ranges (ZMR) in southern Iran, a unique morphology in the world, have been the matter of this study, which is based on a combination of field work, enhancement of satellite and aerial photographs etc. In the ZMR, structural anomalies are frequently associated with similar facies dis...

lectins that agglutinate red blood cells (rbcs) were demonstrated in anopheles stephensi mosquito midgut extracts using human (four groups: a, b, ab and o, rh+) rat, sheep and rabbit blood cells. only rabbit rbcs showed agglutination reaction against the midgut extracts. significant differences in hemagglutinin titers and carbohydrate specifity were detected between male and female mosquitoes a...