Rouhollah Heydari*, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Alimoradi and Sanaz Zarabi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences PO Bo x 68149-89468, Khorrsamabad, Iran. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistr...

Nasim Nahavandi, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Hamid Eslami Nosratabadi, Young Researchers Club, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Abbasian, PhD Student of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Sanaz Pourdarab, Department of Information Technology Management, Science an...

1Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Iran 3Department of Health Administration, Pfeiffer University, Charlotte, USA 4Department of Mathematics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 5Department of Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China...

Context: The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar, with a population of more than 2 million pilgrims in Mecca. Muslims have a series of verdicts in an appealing scenario such as Abraham the prophet. The Hajj pilgrimage is one of the most important verdicts in not only Islam but also all of the Abrahamian religions. Hajj is the 2...

Islamic finance is a prohibitions-driven industry, which aims primarily to circumvent the canonical Islamic prohibitions of riba and gharar. The concepts of riba and gharar may best be understood as unbundled sales of credit and risk, respectively. An obvious solution is to adopt mutual structures for financial intermediaries of credit (e.g. banks) and risk (e.g. insurance companies), as early ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is in the pre-elimination phase of malaria control, but malaria epidemics are still a concern in the south of the country. This retrospective study presents the epidemiological characteristics and predisposing factors of 60 of the malaria epidemics reported in Sistan va Baluchestan province during 2005-09. A zero-truncated negative binomial model was used to investi...

A. Talebian, S. S. Kordestani, A. Rashidi, F. Dadashian, and M. Montazer a Islamic Azad University, Shahre Rey Branch, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Textile Dep., b Tehran-Qom freeway, Tehran, Iran b Amir Kabir University of Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Hafez st., Tehran, Iran c Islamic Azad University, Science-Research Branch, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Textile Lab...

The call of giving all subscribers a greater opportunity in the Islamic banking systems is well documented in the literature of the first decade of this millennium. Many banks and financial institutions across the world have attempted to implement programs aiming at increasing the customer’s involvement in terms of investment and financing with varying degrees of success. The study describes th...