since occurrence of an epidemic of cutaneous leishmaniasis with high incidence of disease (8.9/1000) in arsanjan county, fars province, southern iran, an attempt was made to investigate an epidemiological study during 2001-2002. symptomatic investigation among 270 schoolchildren over one year of study revealed that 11.9% of population had active lesion with 28.1% scar rate. parallel study showe...

abstract background: presently, using complementary therapy such as lavender oil has specific application in medicine. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of aromatherapy massage on the severity of primary dysmenorrhea in nursing and midwifery students of islamic azad university of arsanjan, iran. materials and methods: this study was performed using clinical trial method on...

The carob moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller 1839) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) is the most important pest of pomegranate, Punica granatum L. (Myrtales: Ponicaceae), in Iran. In this study, 6 amplified fragment length polymorphism primer combinations were used to survey the genetic structure of the geographic and putative host-associated populations of this pest in Iran. An AMOVA was performed on...

UNLABELLED Background Three studies were conducted aiming to design specific interventions regarding motorcyclist's safety using Haddon matrix in 14 cities of Iran. METHODS Motorcyclists' fatality data was extracted in 14 cities (5 safe community practicing and 9 safe community non practicing cities) during 2006-2007. As the next step a cross sectional study on Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (...

introduction:changes caused by grazing on range ecosystem are generally assessed based on the soil conditions and vegetation. livestock as one of the major elements in range land ecosystems has different effects on different parts of this ecosystem. one of these impacts is excessive livestock grazing capacity which can have different effects on soils and plants in various intensities. materials...

life quality of all people in society has been the ultimate aim of development programs, thus, the present research deals with the spatial analysis and evaluation of inductor of development in township of fars provinces. the quantitative- analytical method has been used in this research. the statistical society of the research included 24 township of fars provinces in 1385 and 43inductor were u...

zonings of seismicity of fars province in iran and comparison its’ finding to other researches results is aim of this paper. we used statistical method for analyzing recorded earthquakes in study area during 110 years (1900 – 2010), using gis methods for this zoning. by using usgs seismic data of the region and fault maps, excel software and arcgis, we prepare a seismic risk map of study ar...