rangelands encompass 55% of iran's territory. monitoring of such resources is inevitable due to dynamic behavior and extremely high extension. scanning of land resources data by satellites facilitates monitoring the rangelands. this research was carried out to study the relationships of vegetation indices derived from irs liss-iii data with vegetation cover of tange sayyad region in the ch...

Background: Mothers’ delivery is one of the most common hospitalization factors throughout the world and it’s modeling can explain distribution and effective factors on rising and decreasing of it. The objective of the present study was a suitable modeling for mother hospitalization time and comparing it with different models. Materials & Methods: Present study is an observational and cross-s...

Health status can be an important outcome in studies on patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In these studies, adjustment for prognostic factors, such as comorbidity, often has to be made. None of the comorbidity indices that are commonly used in research on ESRD patients has been validated for studies on health status. This study evaluated three existing indices (Khan, Davies, and Cha...

These are consistent with proposals that Fgf10 expression in the developing sensory tissues is required to induce non-sensory development. To determine the otic epithelial functions of Fgf3 and Fgf10, we generated double conditional mutants using TgPax2Cre, and found that as expected, both genes play roles in semicircular canal morphogenesis. Unexpectedly, these genes also appear to have redund...

Spatial predictions of soil moisture content in arid lands are necessary for soil survey, land evaluation, hydrological modeling, land use planning and sustainable land use. Multiple-linear regression models with land use and terrain indices were developed to spatially predict soil moisture using six methods. The performance of six models was evaluated using 13 indices based on biweekly-measure...