BACKGROUND Although the Pap smear is known as one of the effective methods to detect the cervical cancer, a large group of women are reluctant to do the test because of various reasons. Therefore, we carried out this study to determine the level of knowledge about cervical cancer and Pap smear and the factors influencing the Pap test screening among women. METHODS In this cross-sectional stud...

Through continuous sampling of agaric fungi conducted from 2014–17 at different locations of Eslamabad-e Gharb (Iran), two specimens belonging to the genus Pluteuswere collected. At the collection site, GPS coordinates; habit, habitat and macro-morphological characters were recorded and photographed. Microscopic features including basidiospores, basidia, cystidia and pileipellis were observed, ...

introduction: vitamin d deficiency is still a common serious health problem among women of reproductive age and their infants in developing countries at the outset of the third millennium. information on vitamin d status of urban lactating women in islam abad gharb is not available, but it seems that, as in other physiologic groups in other areas of iran, vitamin d deficiency may be common ther...

Soil hydraulic properties are an important factor to optimize and adapt water management for a given crop. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) present solution predict soil variables such as properties, using fundamental properties. In this research, we compared two sources of information: iSDAsoil data field data, in four regions Morocco. We then used evaluate published developed new PTFs informatio...

BACKGROUND Wrong beliefs about risky actions such as sunbathing and tanning are common due to media advertisements or general lack of knowledge. This work has focused on the knowledge and attitude of a group of citizens in Tehran, Iran and the protective actions they take regarding undesirable effects of the sun.    METHODS   A descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study has been conducted on ...