1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara-TURKEY [email protected] 2 Radiology Image Analysis Lab., Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA [email protected] 3,∗ Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran...

The article presents the results of scientific research devoted to study tourism in countries Far East, obtained at one its stages. purpose is characterize state rural Iran. shows how attitude has changed this country, uncovering main reasons for growth domestic and international tourist flows recent years. There are several areas Iran, which include visits historical villages free trade zones,...

Introduction Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is produced as major crop in Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan, and to a lesser extent in many countries of Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa, as well as in South America. It is extensively cultivated and naturalised in the Middle East countries of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon and in Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Libya...

During January 2013-August 2014, a total of 1,800 patients in Iran who had respiratory illness were tested for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A cluster of 5 cases occurred in Kerman Province during May-July 2014, but virus transmission routes for some infections were unclear.

Omid Pournik, Seyed Moayed Alavian, and Saeid Eslami 1Medical Informatics Research Center, Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; 2Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran; 3Pharmaceutical Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. 4Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medica...

OBJECTIVE Despite concerns regarding a diabetes epidemic in the Middle East, internationally published data on national estimates of prevalent type 2 diabetes in Iran do not exist. With this article, we document a dramatically high prevalence of diabetes in Iran. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Our data are based on the results of the first Survey of Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases of I...

INTRODUCTION Implementation of rural family physician program in Iran in 2005 has been evaluated and shown that this program has been led to some improvements in health indicators. In this study, some reproductive health (RH) indicators were compared before and after implementation of this program in rural areas of East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS In this ecologic- time trend study, the data of...

This paper describes two new species of Eriophyoidea associated with trees belonging to the order Rosales in the south-western portion of East Azerbaijan province, Iran, collected during a survey in 2011: Aceria lobolinguae n. sp. on Elaeagnus angustifolia L. (Elaeagnaceae) and Rhinophytoptus nemalobos n. sp. on Prunus domestica L. (Rosaceae). Additionally, Phyllocoptes abaenus Keifer on Prunus...