the caspian sea as the biggest surrounded water body (lake) in the world is bordered by the states of azerbaijan, russia, iran, kazakhstan and turkmenistan. urban development in addition to the increase of industrial and oil production activities (oil refinery and petrochemical plants) in the northern and eastern regions of caspian sea in recent years have caused entrance of high amount of oily...

1 Youngs Researchers Club and Department of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 4 Department of Mathematics and Compu...

Zoonotic diseases can be occupational hazards to people who work in close contact with animals or their carcasses. In this cross-sectional study, 190 sera were collected from butchers and slaughterhouse workers in different regions of the Sistan va Baluchestan province, in Iran in 2011. A questionnaire was filled for each participant to document personal and behavioural information. The sera we...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate loss of hearing among drivers in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. PATIENTS & METHODS This study carried out on a total of 1836 drivers in Zahedan in 2013. Loss of hearing in both ears was measured at 250, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, and 8000 Hertz. The demographic variables, blood parameter and anthropometric data were recorded through interview and exami...

BACKGROUND Parasitological investigations on paramphistomosis were carried out over a 12-month period in the southeast of Iran to determine the prevalence and intensity of this disease. METHODS A total of 1000 cattle, Sistani breed (n= 450) and Brahman breed (n= 550) of all sex and age groups were inspected at random for the presence of paramphistomidae flukes in Zabol slaughterhouse from Dec...

MOHAMMAD ZANJANI, AHMAD BARAANI DASTJERDI, EHSAN ASGARIAN, ALIREZA SHAHRIYARI AND AMIR AKHAVAN KHARAZIAN Department of Information and Communication Technology South Pars Gas Complex Asalouyeh, I.R. Iran Department of Computer Engineering, School of Engineering SheikhBahaee University Isfahan, I.R. Iran Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Isfahan University Isfahan, I.R. ...

The Balkano-Anatolian genus Parapholidoptera comprises 21 species and the westernmost one, Parapholidoptera castaneoviridis, previously recognized to occur in western Turkey, north-eastern Greece and south-eastern Bulgaria is recorded for the first time from south-eastern Romania, almost 300 km away from the closest known locality. Illustrations and measurements of morphological characters are ...

dust particles have dangerous impacts on human health, the environment, and the economy. recently dust storms, originating from arabian countries, have increased remarkably, affecting western and central parts of iran.hysplit model and the mean monthly maps of aai (absorbing aerosol index), surface skin temperature, and top soil layer moisture from omi (ozone measurement instrument) have been u...

In this study, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used to study the relationship between drinking water quality based on content of inorganic components and landform classes in the south of Firozabad, west of Fars province, Iran. For determination of drinking water quality based on content of inorganic components, parameters of calcium (Ca), chlorine (Cl), magnesium (Mg), thorium (TH...

1 Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, 2 Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Social Welfare Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, 4 Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway, 5 Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Fa...