bagh vang section is located at about 45 km to the northwest of tabas and south of shirgesht areas. in bagh vang section, the permian deposits of the jamal formation with a thickness of 270 m are underlain by the sardar formation disconformably. the formation is also transitionally and conformably overlain by lower triassic deposits of sorkh shale formation. a total of 124 rock samples have bee...

in the history of persian fiction, there have been created works of art, corresponding to their time’s intellectual and cultural necessities and needs; if being read through by a reconsidering approach, they not only may refer to individual and social psychology of iranian people of the era “jamshid and khorshid” the poem (778 ah) is one of these works that has considerable potentials for empha...

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

several models have been developed to estimate land degradation rate and evaluate desertification severity. this study attempts to apply the medalus (mediterranean desertification and land use) model by considering existing conditions in the hamoun wetland, located in south-eastern iran. at first identification of the main factors affecting the desertification phenomenon was attempted, based on...

background: the municipal solid wastes (msws) are disposed in open dumps, which have no leachate collection and removal system, in the caspian region of iran. leachate readily reaches the nearby water resources such as streams, rivers, lakes, and sea. therefore, understanding the quality and quantity of open dump leachate is vital to the proper treatment of leachate. methods: the leachate sampl...

introduction: the complex geometry of breast and also lung and heart inhomogeneities near the planning target volume (ptv) result in perturbations in dose distribution. this problem can result in overdosage or underdosage in the match region of the three treatment fields. the purpose of this study is to create a homogeneous dose distribution in the match region between the supraclavicular and t...