safety of a dam depends upon not only design and construction but also on the monitoring at the early years after impoundment. shahr- chai dam is located on the shahr- chai river and 12 km away from urmia city in the south- west. the construction of dam was ended in winter 2004, and then both of the dam impoundment and monitoring instrument readings were started, immediately. after ending dam c...

background: this study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in meshkin-shahr district as endemic areas of human visceral leishmaniasis (hvl) for presenting control program of hvl to health authorities.  methods: a seroepidemiological study to determine seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis (cvl) among owner­ship dogs using direct agglutination tests (...

chicory is a herbaceous plant which grows in many regions of iran such as tehran and chaloos road. the roots of chicory are succulent and its main root is 75 cm long. chicory is a herbaceous plant; its root, due to its inulin, is good for remedying diabetes. micorrhizs are effective on absorbing the elements of soil particularly phosphorus as well as increasing the growth of the plant, and they...

AIM This study was performed to determine the effect of health education on the improvement of intake of fruits and vegetables aiming at preventing colorectal cancer among high school girls in the city of Shahr-e-kord. BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is one of the most important and most common cancers and the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Every year, nearly one million new cas...

based on, historical seismicity, position of 19-century instrumental epicenters, fault zones, relation of seismicity with active faults, and structural geology, statistics of earthquake activites, model studies for estimation of acceleration, and other information of intensities of iranian earthquakes, and for simplicity in the usage, the country is divided into two intensity provinces. in the ...

in order to determine reaction of sandflies to the light trap, they were collected from the foci of visceral leishmaniasis in meshkjn shahr and germj during 1994. we used three c.d.c. light trap for collection of sandflies. totally, two hundred and sixty three sand - flies were captured from meshkin - shahr focus, belonging to the species of phiebotomus kandejajcj (69.58%), ph.ba/canicus(815%) ...