Abstract Background and Aims: Apple scar skin disease (ASSD) is one of the destructive diseases of pome fruits which is caused by ASSVd. Case presentation: We report molecular detection of ASSVd in symptomatic apples cv. Red Delicious with simultaneous presence of a new variant of HSVd from Khorasan Razavi province. Conclusion: This is the first report on the association of HSVd with...

the aim of this research is investigating the relations between climatic large scale signals and spring rainfall of khorasan-e razavi province. in this research, we have analyzed 38 years of rainfall data in khorasan-e razavi province, located in northeastern iran. we attempted to train artificial neural network based upon climatic large scale signals with 38 years of rainfall data. for perform...

background: during the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. the aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using data envelopment analysis approach. methods: in this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of iran 31 provinces. the o...

the predatory mites of suborder prostigmata are important natural enemies of spider mites. during 2009-2010, in a faunistic survey of superfamilies raphignathoidea, bdelloidea and erythraeoidea in mashhad region (razavi khorasan province), different samples were taken from soil, tree foliages, crops and weeds of pome fruit orchards orchards. after clearing the mites in lactophenol fluid, the sl...

Background: Many developing countries are facing the problem of rapidly rising death rate from fatal accidents involving motorcycles. Objective: To determine the effect of participation and implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Community Programme on death rate from fatal motorcycle accidents. Methods: Motorcycle’ fatal accident data were obtained from forensic medicine dep...

background: sulfur mustard (sm) is an incapacitating chemical warfare agent, which has been widely employed in particular regions including iran. we investigated and reported delayed biochemical and hematological complications of sm in severely toxic iranian veterans 23 years after exposure. materials and methods: forty-two iranian veterans, residents of khorasan razavi, poisoned by sm, and suf...

in several field observation of this research ,the main ecological requirenments and ethnopharmacological data about  the traditional uses  of ziziphora clinopodioides lam. were recorded. the aerial parts of plant were collected in blooming from bovanloo mountain in september 2013 (1728 m ) in north khorasan razavi.  essential oil was obtained by hydro-distillation and  analyzed by gc-ms. metha...