OBJECTIVE This research was designed to identify the validity and reliability of the Persian version of Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST-II) in Iranian children, in order to provide an appropriate developmental screening tool for Iranian child health workers. METHODS At first a precise translation of test was done by three specialists in English literature and then it was revised ...

OBJECTIVES There is evidence to suggest that immigrant groups from low- or medium-human development index countries show a significant adoption of obesogenic behaviors and experience weight gain following migration to Australia. The objective of this study is to understand the changes that Iranian immigrants experience in relation to the determinants of obesity after migration to Victoria, Aust...

Moving on from a city to another is a stressful situation. Emigration to another country on the other hand, could be even more stressful for many reasons such as the new cultural and educational environment (1), especially for children and adolescents due to leaving a familiar environment to unfamiliar one which can seriously affect their both mental and physical health status (2). Therefore, o...

BACKGROUND Websites as one of the initial steps towards an e-government adoption do facilitate delivery of online and customer-oriented services. In this study we intended to investigate the role of the websites of medical universities in providing educational and research services following the E-government maturity model in the Iranian universities. METHODS This descriptive and cross- secti...

We contrast evidence of urban path dependence with efforts to analyze calibrated models of city sizes. Recent evidence of persistent city sizes following the obsolescence of historical advantages suggests that path dependence cannot be understood as the medium-run effect of legacy capital but instead as the long-run effect of equilibrium selection. In contrast, a different, recent literature us...

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This volume is a reprint from Eurasian Studies, vol. 16, published in 2018, with an index. It consists of articles conference at Harvard University 2015 on “Iranian Cities the Arab Conquest to Early Modern Period,” and by scholars later invited contribute. Included are thirteen original articles, translation Jean Aubin’s “Elements pour l’etude des agglomerations urbaines dans l’Iran medieval,” ...