The Bandar Bushehr, Iran earthquake of April 9, 2013 gravely illustrates how disaster-prone areas of the world are compounding their risk of disaster and major public health emergencies when there is a geographical convergence of natural and technological hazards. Scientists must emphasize to policy makers that ever-increasing regional industrialization and the broader introduction of nuclear f...

Su-Yong Lee, Jiyong Park, Se-Wan Ji, C.H.Raymond Ooi, and Hai-Woong Lee1,∗ Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 207-43 Cheongryangri-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-012, Korea School of Engineering, Monash University, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 46150, Selan...

1. Deputy of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 4. Dept. of Public Health, School of Health, Zabol University of Medical Science...

*Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. **School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, No. 20 & 22, Jalan PJS 11/5, Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya. Received for publication: December 19, 2007. Reprint request: Shamala Devi Sekaran, M.D., Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Unive...

this study was conducted to investigation and determine of cadmium (cd) concentration in the liver of platycephalus indicus (flathead) in minab, qeshm island and khamir port (persian gulf). moreover, the effect of season (winter and summer) and sex (male and female) on cd concentration in flathead were investigated. cd concentration sampling was done in two station (minab, qeshm island and kham...

Teneriffia hajiqanbari n. sp. is described based on female, male, and deutonymph specimens collected in mangrove forests Qeshm Island, the eastern part of Persian Gulf, southern Iran. This new species can be distinguished by following characters: gnathosoma without “clasps” ventrally; palpal oncophysis absent; venter with 17–20 pairs setae; genital plates seven setae (female); dorsal body minut...

The Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca complex has a wide distribution in the east and west Palaearctic comprises phenotypically very similar, but genetically distinct forms. In order to determine origin of birds wintering on Qeshm Island Persian Gulf, we studied nucleotide sequences mitochondrial cytochrome b gene 23 individuals compared them with publicly available Gen-Bank. from were attribut...

introduction persian gulf is a warm, hypersaline, shallow and semi-enclosed sea with low hydrodynamic energy and ideal conditions for deposition of particle materials. qeshm island is the largest island of persian gulf, in the mouth of strategic hormoz strait. every day, many tankers and ships that transport oil production of persian gulf throughout the world, cross near this island. thus, qesh...

Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, Institute of Physics, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Centre for Chemical Crystallography, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Chemistry Department, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001,...