this survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in iran (west azarbaijan, bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and vaccine coverage for...

Iranians of whom 52 were females and 109 were males. The median age was 35, the youngest being 18 and the oldest 66 years of age. They represented individuals from all the Iranian regions who live in Tehran, the capital. For the factor V Leiden mutation 9 heterozygotes were found (frequency of 5.5%), with an allele frequency of 2.7% and for the G20210A mutation 5 heterozygotes were found (frequ...

Russia and China share a discontent with the United States-dominated unipolar world want to establish multipolar international system. They are concerned about West’s attempt expand NATO eastward its security ring around China. has an identity crisis vis-à-vis West is sceptical partnership West. needs modernise defence forces meet of post-Soviet Russia, must lessen external threats. sees as cru...

The major factors of insecurity in the East, away from the security of geopolitical area were because of the formation of political management in the nineteenth century colonial style. The security factor in the vast region of the East that encompasses at least three countries of Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan is very important and highly effective. It reached its peak colonial Anglo-Russian...

This study uses phylogenetic relationships of the species-rich section Astragalus (Incani), to follow up on recent evidence pointing rapid and plant diversification patterns in west Iran. Section Incani is introduced for its taxonomic complication resulting from overlapping morphological characters, but few studies have been done this section; hence, we also lack a robust time-calibrated chrono...

INTRODUCTION Despite significant improvement in Anti-HBV vaccination and treatment, HBV infection continues to be a major global health problem. It has been reported that as much as 350 million carriers exist in the world and about one million of them will die annually (1). The prevalence of HBV infection in Iran ranged between 2.7 to 7.2 %, which declined below 2% following national vaccinatio...

i Nazbanoo Farzaneh. Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, IRAN. (email: [email protected]) ii * Corresponding Author, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee Moghaddam is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (e-mail...

a School of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, 470 Mirdamad Ave. West, 19697, Tehran 19697 64499, Iran b Civil Engineering Department, Shahrood Univerity of Technology, Shahrood 36199 95161, Iran c School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA d Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 120 David L. Boren...

Sarcheshmeh copper mine, with the final reserves of 828 million tons of sulfur ore and average grade of 0.74%, is known to be the largest open pit of Iran and most probably the second largest copper mine in the world. This mine is located in the seismotectonic zone of Central-Iran, and 23 Km away from the 150 Km long Rafsanjan active fault.In this study the vulnerability of the west wall of the...