This article forms pan of an ongoing study of the coal and coalbed methane resource potential of northwestern British Columbia. Other areas under study include the Bower basin coalfield, Telkwa coalfield and Tertiary coalfields of the Bulkley Valley. Tertiary sediments survive in many major watersheds in British Columbia. The sediments are generally not well consolidated, poorly exposed and the...

The plankton fauna of the state of Piauí, Northeastern Brazil, especially in the Parnaíba basin, is still poorly known; the results of most studies of the subject have not been published and can only be found in grey literature (unpublished scientific works), such as course completion work and consulting reports. Thus, this paper presents data from samples taken recently from different water bo...

Knowledge management is regarded as one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects of business management; and its application scope is extending in the same way as other fields of management. Nonaka and Takochi (1995) proposed a model which resulted in novel transformation in knowledge management. Though the subsequent complementary studies and investigations enriched the concept, but ...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is a sand fly-borne disease caused by the protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania. Because of the preventing and controlling methods, clinical course, prognosis and choice of treatment are differing from species; differentiation of species is critical. The present study was aimed to detect the parasite species using the PCR-RFLP method. METHODS A total o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of socio-economic status (SES) on BMI, waist:hip ratio (WHR) and waist circumference (WC) in a group of Iranian women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 888 women in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. SES was measured using level of education. In addition, parity, marital status and physical activity were assessed. Standardized measurements were ta...

BACKGROUND As social health is a condition-driven, dynamic and fluid concept, it seems necessary to construct and obtain a national and relevant concept of it for every society. Providing an empirical back up for Iran's concept of social health was the aim of the present study. METHODS This study is an ecologic study in which available data for 30 provinces of Iran in 2007 were analyzed. In o...

The subject of this study was to compare the seropre valence of Border Disease Virus (BDV) infection using an indirect Enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) test among imported and native sheep herds. The present study was carried out between January and June 2012. Totally، 182 serum samples was tested. Antibodies against BDV were detected using an indirect ELISA test. Data were analyzed u...

Applying Content-Based Image Retrieval Techniques to Provide New Services for Tourism Industry Zobeir Raisi Department of Electrical Engineering, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, IRAN Email: [email protected] Farahnaz Mohanna Assistant professor, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, IRAN Email: [email protected] Mehdi R...

Molecular microbial ecology studies have revealed remarkable prokaryotic diversity in extreme hydrothermal marine environments. There are no comparable reports of culture-independent surveys of eukaryotic life in warm, anoxic marine sediments. By using sequence comparisons of PCR-amplified small subunit ribosomal RNAs, we characterized eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal vent environments of G...

In this study, we estimate life history parameters and abundance for a protected jaguar population using camera-trap data from a 14-year monitoring program (2002-2015) in Belize, Central America. We investigated the dynamics of this jaguar population using 3,075 detection events of 105 individual adult jaguars. Using robust design open population models, we estimated apparent survival and tempo...