Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that more than 95% of its cases and the death caused by it occurs in low and middle income countries. Nowadays Geographical Information System (GIS) software is one of the most useful epidemiologic devices for identifying geographic areas and high risk population for infection by TB. This study was performed in Kerman, Ira...

The aim of this study was to investigate the environmental factors affecting the population of the bulatmai barbel (Luciobarbus capito) in Sefidrood River, as one of the important habitats of fish in the Caspian Sea basin. For this purpose, two stations after Sefidrood Dam and one station near Rudbar (Guilan province) were selected for the study. Fish sampling was performed using electroshockin...

Introduction: The family as a social system impact of disrupt of every member of the system. The existence of a child with disabilities result in irreparable harm to the family and mothers suffers more other members. Because of the central role of the mother at home and interaction with the child, she encountered the psychological stress. Therefore, the present study conducted to analysis the e...

Background and Aim: Thymus kotschyanus is one of the most famous medicinal plants in Iran from the mint family and it has many applications in traditional medicine, such as relieving the symptoms of colds and coughs and relieving some gastrointestinal diseases. It also has antibacterial and antifungal effects. This study was performed to investigate the diversity of antibiotic effects of this p...

Background and objectives: The earthquake is one of the serious threats in the present era, which disrupts local resources of rural communities. After the Manjil-Rudbar earthquake in June 21, 1989, many villages merged and displaced due to the vast damages. According to the adopted policies, Liyavol Oliya was one of these villages that displaced and merged with three other villages in an area c...

Background and objective: Damage caused by various natural disasters around the world, especially in rural areas, are increasing. In order to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters, the awareness of people to deal with natural disasters must be upgraded, in which, rural women with awareness and awareness in the field of natural disaster management, can play an effective role in reducing ...

Background: Many cities such as Tehran, Tabriz, Rudbar, Manjil, Tabas, Lar, Qazvin, Zanjan, Hamedan, and Kermanshah are prone to damages and losses arising from the earthquake. The occurrence of an earthquake can lead to the destruction of school buildings and disruption in the function of educational systems, and the first responders will be school officials and students.  Materials and ...

The field of natural hazards research has a rich history in geography, appropriately so because it involves conflicts between physical processes and human systems. Natural events occur without direct human effect and endanger his social life. Events that enforce average annual up to 150000 human damages and more than 140 milliard dollars financial damages on counties and especially developing c...