Different insecticides are being used for household and agricultural pest control in the capital city of Iran, Tehran. An investigation was carried out in order to evaluate the susceptibility level of laboratory and field collected mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatusin to different insecticides. Field strain was collected from sewage system of the city. Adult females were subjected to the diagnost...

Dear Editor, Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and peripheral artery intervention are two substantial methods of revascularization with approved efficacy in the treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disorders. Given the existence of a large number of interventional cardiologists and catheterization labs in Iran, the present study analyzed the background and current status of PCI, p...

Purpose – The city can be viewed from many perspectives. In this article the author’s perspective will be the city as knowledge tool. In the knowledge economy it might be argued that one of the most essential dimensions will be the relational as well as organizational dimensions, such as a city. The city is the larger context, or structural capital surrounding the human capital, for the value c...

Nasuh, Known as Matrakci was a miniature painter who accompanied King Suleiman Kanuni during hiscampaign to Iran in 940-42 AH/1533-36 AD and he has drawn many miniature from lots of Iranian cities including Khoy, Tabriz, Zanjan, Soltaniyeh, Hamedan, and Ghasre Shirin to Baghdad and Shahre Zur, Baneh, Bukan, Maraghe. Being capital during one part of the Safavid dynasty and in the other part as t...

The social dynamics of cities have long been dependent on their spaces and places. On the one hand, human interactions, and relationships are formed by the city form and on the other hand, the body recovers its identity from existing social life. The more a city can communicate with its citizens through physical features, the more it will affect their social identity. Thus, the city form can ha...

Background: Psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. Objectives: We investigated Psychological Capital states of employees of the Tehran university of medical sciences (TUMS) headquarter offices in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive and analyti...

this article is aimed to explain sociologically active aging with emphasizing the social capital in esfahan. the present research is a survey and in terms of purpose is a practical type of cross-sectional study. the population is all elderly over 60 years in esfahan in 2015. the sample size is selected by using cochran formula to 384 subjects and a quota sampling method is done by focusing the ...