background: q fever is a zoonosis disease caused by an obligate intracellular organism coxiella burnetii. raw milk or dairy products that are produced by unpasteurized milk may contain virulent coxiella burnetii. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of c. burnetii in bulk milk samples from dairy sheep herds in fars, ghom, kerman, khuzestan and yazd provinces, iran. m...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Iran. No spatial analysis of MI has been conducted to date. The present study was conducted to determine the pattern of MI incidence and to identify the associated factors in Iran by province. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study has two parts. One part is prospective and hospital-based, and the other part is a...

BACKGROUND As a performance evaluating program, healthcare indicators of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the end year of the 4th five-year socioeconomic strategic plan (2008) were evaluated in comparison with the same indicators at the 1st year of the 9th government (2004). METHODS The indicators were selected with the Delphi technique among the published indicators in the two period of time ...

1- Department of Bacteriology and Virology, Faculty Medicine, Shiraz University Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2- Biochemistry, Kerman Kerman, 3- 4- , [email protected]

In this experiment, the chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from Ferula assa-foetida oleo-gum resin collected from two different sites of Yazd province (Tabas and Yazd) in the center of Iran, were identified. The gas chromatography mass-spectroscopy (GC/MS) data showed that the qualitative composition of the components appeared to be constant in two different regions. Moreover, ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to design pictorial key and taxonomic literature of Culex pipiens complex in Iran. METHODS Larvae were collected using standard dipping methods in 13 randomly selected areas of Bushehr, Hamedan, Kerman, Khorasan-e-Razavi, Khuzistan, Mazandaran, Tehran, Sistan and Baluchistan and Yazd Provinces from April 2009 to October 2010. The data were analyzed using S...

t has been shown that stress can induce hyperglycemia in several animal models of type II diabetes (1). Cori theorized a link between the physiologic stress response and development of hyperglycemia. In his experiments with rabbits, Cori demonstrated that continuous infusion of epinephrine exacerbated hyperglycemia (2). Van Loon continued these researches by infusing beta endorphins intracister...

1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 2 Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. 3 Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 4 Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Kerma...

Corresponding Author: Dr. Arsham Borumand Saeid, Department of Mathematics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, email: [email protected] 1446 Ideal Theory of BCH-Algebras 1A. Borumand Saeid, 2A. Namdar and 3R.A. Borzooei Department of Mathematics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University Zarin Dasht Branch, Iran Depar...