Aim The aim of this study was to obtain more accurate estimates of the liver cancer incidence rate after correcting for misclassification error in cancer registry across Iranian provinces. Background Nowadays having a thorough knowledge of geographic distribution of disease incidence has become essential for identifying the influential factors on cancer incidence. Methods Data of liver canc...

Between July and August 2009, a total of two hundred crossbreed dogs in three contiguous littoralprovinces of Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan were sampled. Circulating antigens and/or microfilariae ofDirofilaria immitis were found in 25.5% of dogs in the whole studied area. The highest infection rate wasfound in Guilan (51.42%), followed by Golestan and Mazandaran provinces (15.38% and 7.69%, r...

 Given that improvement in efficiency is a major resource to economic development, this can be applied to each domestic sector of an economy. The objective of this paper is to measure technical efficiency of the Iranian Post Company across the country’s provinces using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The ranking of technical efficiency has been calculated by using collected data on post offi...

Mostafa Zare, A Zhiani Asgharzade, S Mostafavi, F Abbasi, M Karimi, M Sobhani Shahmirzadi, H Zarei, MH Gharib. Student research committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; Neonatal & Children’s Health Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Center of Golestan, Golestan university of Medi...

AIM To correct the misclassification in registered gastric cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Gastric cancer data is extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration report 2008. A Bayesian method with beta prior is implemented to estimate the rate of misclassification in registering patient's permanent residence in neighboring province. Ea...

BACKGROUND One of the main and basic pillars of health system promotion is the equitable distribution of health facilities in order to ensure fair access of people in the community to the health services. The goal of this study was to classify the health structural indicators in Golestan Province using Scalogram analysis model. METHOD A descriptive study was conducted in 2010. Data related to...

in recent years, shallow bark canker of walnut (juglandis regia l.) trees has become fairly widespread in iran. to determine the distribution of the disease in golestan, mazandaran and gilan provinces, from early summer to mid-fall seasons of 2004, more than one hundred bark samples were collected from walnut trees showing symptoms of shallow bark canker. sixty strains of bacteria were isolated...

seed dormancy is a temporary failure of a viable seed to germinate. various methods are used for breaking seed dormancy, depending on plant species and type of dormancy. three seed populations originated from esfahan, semnan and fars provinces were exposed to different seed dormancy breaking treatments such as mechanical and chemical scarification, humid chilling, ga3 and polyethylenglycol 6000...