background: patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) suffer from wide ranges of autoimmune reactions in joints. the mechanism of which is generally unknown and maybe associated with treg deregulation. objective: to compare the frequency of ntregs in peripheral blood of patients with active rheumatoid disease with healthy individuals. methods: twenty five newly diagnosed patients with active ra d...

some areas of ramsar, a city in northern iran are among the world’s wellknown inhabited areas with highest levels of natural radiation. annual exposure levels in these areas are up to 260 mgy y‐1 and the mean exposure rate is about 10 mgy y‐1 for a population of about 2000 residents. if elevated levels of natural radiation as high as a few hundred msv per year is detrimental to health and leads...

natural hazards in the form of floods, quakes, cyclones, and the like have existed since the earth has come to being. in recent decades, in spite of scientific and technological developments in forecasting incidents, building construction and crisis management have imposed heavy expenses on human societies. the importance of many natural hazards is so great that to predict the very occurrence a...