concessionaire: ayatollah ahmad beheshti managing editor: mohsen izadi editor in chif: saeid beheshti executive manager: mahdi behshti   editorial board hasan ebrahimi: assistant professor, tehran university. saeid behshti: associate professor, allameh tabatabaei university. mansoor pahlavan: professor, tehran university. mohammad zabihi: associate professor qom university. abdolmajid talebtash...

* Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro. ** Professor, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro. Design of ship control system has been great challenge since long time, because the dynamics of ship are not only nonlinear but change with operating conditions (de...

Omid GHASHGHAEI, Saeid Reza NOUROLLAHI-FARD*, Mohammad KHALILI, Hamid SHARIFI Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Department of Pathobiology, Research Center of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Heal...

Jalil IMANI HARSINI*, Hamid-Reza REZAEI, Saeid NADERI, Hosein VARASTEH MORADI Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Department of Fisheries and Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natu...

Omid Pournik, Seyed Moayed Alavian, and Saeid Eslami 1Medical Informatics Research Center, Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; 2Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran; 3Pharmaceutical Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. 4Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medica...

Yangming Xiao, Danika Hayman, Seyed Saeid Khalafvand, Merry L. Lindsey, and Hai-Chao Han Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; San Antonio Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, San Antonio, Texas; Mississippi Center for Heart Research, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; ...

In this paper, the variational iteration method (VIM) and Buckley-Feuring method (BFM) are applied to find the exact fuzzy solution of the fuzzy heat-like equations in one and two dimensions with variable coefficients. Further a comparison between VIM-BFM and Seikkala solutions is provided. [Hamid Rouhparvar, Saeid Abbasbandy, Tofigh Allahviranloo. Journal of American Science 2011; 7(2):338-345...

BACKGROUND N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) has been associated with important risk factors for contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). However, few studies have investigated the predictive value of NT-proBNP itself. This study investigated whether levels of preprocedural NT-proBNP could predict CIN after elective coronary angiography as effectively as the Mehran CIN score. ME...

BACKGROUND The incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the city of Mehran has risen sharply in recent years because the city borders Iraq, which has allowed entrance of different Leishmania strains. These strains have different shapes, periods of disease, and healing of lesions. The present study identified and determined cutaneous leishmaniasis species in this region. METHODS This cross-sect...

Late in-stent restenosis (ISR) has raised concerns regarding the long-term efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES). The role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the pathological process of ISR is controversial. This retrospective study aimed to investigate the relationship between serum VEGF levels and late ISR in patients with DES implantation. A total of 158 patients who underwent a...