Two new species of Stenochironomus Kieffer, 1919 are described in Brazil. New records of Stenochironomus nudipupa Borkent, 1984 and S. gladius Borkent, 1984 from Brazil, new data on geographical distribution of S. jubatus Borkent, 1984 and S. triannulatus Borkent, 1984 from the State of Roraima, and S. bacrionis Borkent, 1984 recorded from the State of Amazonas, as well as emended descriptions ...

Years Iranian Journal of Pediatrics (Iran J Pediatr) is the first medical journal published in Iran focusing on one specific field. From the first English issue, Iran J Pediatr was indexed in ISI, while it was being indexed in other international databases too. Impact factor of scientific journals is calculated and reported by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), annually. Journal im...

Methods: The study took place in Tehran and Esfahan oil refineries in Iran in 2010. An initial questionnaire was formed from two previous studies. This tool was translated to Persian based on back translation. The 61-item questionnaire was tested on operational staffs (N=324). Principle component analysis and Varimax with Kaiser Normalization was used to extract factors, in statistical software...

Continuing the work K. C. Das, I. Gutman, B. Furtula, On second geometric−arithmetic index of graphs, Iran. J. Math Chem., 1 (2010) 17−27, in this paper we present lower and upper bounds on the third geometric−arithmetic index GA3 and characterize the extremal graphs. Moreover, we give Nordhaus−Gaddum−type result for GA3.

BACKGROUND Vaccination has been one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions in the last century and has saved millions of lives. In 1984, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was launched in Iran as one of the main components of Primary Health Care (PHC).  OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the burden of four vaccine-preventable diseases from 1990 to 2010 i...

Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti THE PROGRESS AND OBSTACLES OF IMPLEMENTING AND IMPROVING E-GOVERNMENT IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Master’s Thesis 2010 89 pages, 4 figures, 15 tables Examiners: Professor, Ph.D. Kari Smolander Supervisor: Associate Professor D.Sc (Tech.) Erja Mustonen-Ollila

INTRODUCTION Reducing inequalities in health care is one of the main challenges in all countries. In Iran as in other oil-exporting upper middle income countries, we expected to witness fewer inequalities especially in the health sector with the increase in governmental revenues. METHODS This study presents an inequalities assessment of health care expenditures in Iran. We used data from the ...