Progress in controlling communicable diseases increases the relative importance of noncommunicable diseases, including genetic disorders. In Iran, the development of primary health care over the past 20 years has greatly reduced infant mortality and crude birth rate. Accordingly, in 1991 prevention of non-communicable diseases was added to the primary healthcare programme, and a department for ...

Hepatitis B infection is one of the major health problems throughout the world with the annual infection rate of 350 million cases.(1), According to the WHO data, 75% of this rate is related to the Asian countries.(2), The prevalence of this infection varies among different countries from 10-20% for the Far East (including China and Hong Kong)(3) to 3-5% for the middle-east countries (including...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...

To improve accuracy and reliability, Boolean combination (BC) can efficiently integrate the responses of multiple biometric systems in the ROC space. However, BC techniques assume that recognition systems are conditionally-independent and that their ROC curves are convex. These assumptions are rarely valid in practice, where systems face complex environments, and are designed using limited enro...

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...

The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1998 32 Dr. Eric Arnett is leader of the Project on Military Technology at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is the author of numerous books and articles on security and nonproliferation issues, including the recent edited volume Military Capacity and the Risk of War: China, India, Pakistan and Iran (Oxford University Press, 1997...

Granuloma annulare is self-limiting cutaneous condition of unknown etiology, causing necrobiotic dermal and subcutaneous papules. A number of conditions have been described in association with Granuloma annulare, including lymphoma, anemia, intestinal bleeding, seronegative arthralgia, vasculitis and autoimmune thyroiditis. This manuscript, as the first report of this combination in Iran, descr...

Species of the genus Singilis Rambur, 1837 (Phloeozeteus Peyron, 1856, syn. n., Agatus Motschulsky, 1845, syn. n.), occurring in the Middle East and Central Asia are reviewed, with 24 species now recognized in the region, including ten species described as new: Singilis makarovisp. n. (Tajikistan), Singilis jedlickaisp. n. (Afghanistan), Singilis kolesnichenkoisp. n. (Iran), Singilis kabakovisp...

Many studies have shown the crippling effects of sanctions on healthcare sector different countries, including Iran. Long-standing against Iran escalated recently and severely limited commercial activities with The devastating consequences these embargoes affected all aspects health care delivery in Iran, limiting availability critical medicines medical devices, negatively impacting primary car...