BACKGROUND Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an acute febrile haemorrhagic disease. This study was conducted to ascertain the infection status amongst slaughterhouse workers in Iran's north-eastern provinces (Razavi and northern and southern Khorasan), so that analysis of the results could help clarification of the epidemiology of this disease in the aforementioned provinces and eastern...

This paper introduces a method for achieving stable periodic walking for legged robots. This method is based on producing a type of odd-even symmetry in the system. A hybrid system with such symmetries is called a Symmetric Hybrid System (SHS). We discuss the properties of an SHS and, in particular, will show that an SHS can have an infinite number of synchronized periodic orbits. We describe h...

to identify trichoderma isolates for potential biocontrol of crown and root rot inpistachio, 100 samples of soil taken from rhizosphere, fertilizer channels and from soil surfacewere collected from kerman, yazd, khorasane razavi and semnan provinces during 2009-2011. overall, 32 isolates of trichoderma harzianum were obtained mostly from rhizospheresoil using either general or special environme...

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...

This paper investigates the commonly overlooked “sensitivity” of sensitivity analysis (SA) to what we refer to as parameter “perturbation scale”, which can be defined as a prescribed size of the sensitivityrelated neighbourhood around any point in the parameter space (analogous to step size Dx for numerical estimation of derivatives). We discuss that perturbation scale is inherent to any (local...

Background This cross-sectional investigation aimed to evaluate the prevalence of IgM and IgG anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies and the associated risk factors among healthy blood donors in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeast of Iran from Nov 2014 to May 2015. Methods Overall, 491 serum samples from apparently healthy blood donors referred the six biggest blood centers in Razavi Khorasan, Ira...