Background and Aim: Recognition of factors affecting oral health behaviors in students is a key step in promoting oral health. This study explored the predictive power of constructs in Pender’s Health Promotion Model vis-à-vis oral health behaviors among elementary students in 2016-2017 school year in Nehbandan. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 464 fifth...

Background and Aim: Bloody diarrhea (dysentery) is one of the acute gastrointestinal diseases and Shigellosis is an important cause of it in our country. Variety of its causing agents (Shigella strains) and occurrence of drug resistance have made troubles in selecting of appropriate antibiotics for the treatment of shigellosis. The current study was aimed at identifying different strains of shi...

The Balazard prospecting area is located about 120 km southwest of Nehbandan city, Khorasan Jonoobi Province, in the central parts of Lut block volcano-plutonic belt.  The intrusion of a granitoid pluton into rhyolitic and andesitic rocks has led to alteration and mineralization. Hydrothermal alteration zones consist of argillic, sericite-argillic, silicic-argillic, propylitic, and advanced arg...

Background and Aim: Studies in the recent decade indicate that a high percent of cis and trans –fatty acids and omega 6 in man’s food sources increase the incidence of cardiovascular and atherosclerosis diseases One of animal protein sources used in human diet is the camel meat. Therefore, fatty acid profiles of the camel hump and meat in Birjand and Nehbandan cities, as two main camel meat sou...

The study area is located at 130 km northwest of Nehbandan in South of Khorasan and is a part of the rectangular Chahvak (Dehsalm). Dacite, rhiodacite, andesite, rhyolite, tuff and lithic tuff with Eocene age are recognized in the study area. According to mineralogy, mentioned rocks include plagioclase, quartz, pyroxene, amphibole, biotite and alkaline feldspar. Plagioclase consists of zonal st...

The Chah ruii area in southwest of Nehbandan contains two types of tourmaline pegmatites. Type one (type CH) pegmatites are found in the granitoid body and type two (type D) pegmatites in metamorphic rocks around the granitoid. Based on petrography and electron microprobe analyses these tourmalines show schorl- dravite, and located in alkali groups and have high Al contents and deprotonation-su...