Qasr-e Shirin owes its prominence primarily to the Sassanian period and the attention the region received from Khosrow Parviz. Khosrow took the first steps to make Qasr-e-Shirin habitable by constructing a complex consisting of a palace, a fortress, a religious building, a defensive wall and a water conveyance system. Later, Qasr-e-Shirin is mentioned in several texts and travel itineraries. Th...

Zahra Shahrivar, Maryam Kousha, Shirin Moallemi, Mehdi Tehrani-Doost & Javad Alaghband-Rad Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Department of Psychiatry, Gillan University...

This paper addresses the post-war reconstruction experience of Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran, in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). Compared with the war-damaged cities in southwest Iran, western cities such as Qasr-e-Shirin lack a post-war reconstruction assessment and documentation. With an objective view, the author aims at documenting the situation of the city almost thirty years after i...

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BACKGROUND This study was conducted to explain the trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) in Kermanshah Province, western Iran from 1991-2012. METHODS In this analytical-descriptive study, all of the patients suspected to CL in Kermanshah Province were studied. Smears were prepared from most of them, stained with Giemsa, and examined microscopically for Leishman bodies. A few of the patients w...

background: this study assessed the removal of organic material and nutrients from full-scale subsurface flow (ssf) constructed wetlands (cws) followed by anaerobic stabilization ponds under environmental conditions. methods: the effluents were distributed evenly in 12 reed beds. samples were taken twice monthly for a total of 6 months from several points in the wetland. biochemical oxygen dema...

to determine the potential habitat of two rangeland species of salsola rigidaand agropyron trichophorum in qasr-e-shirin, iran, geographic information systems(gis) and remote sensing (rs) techniques were used. at first, several maps (vegetationcover and land uses maps and thematic maps of various organizations) were collected orprepared. for digitizing geology, vegetation and conventional state...

This article attempts to gain an understanding of the current and potential impact of the Internet on the four-fifths of the world's population living in developing countries, two-thirds of them poor. First, it attempts to put today's rapid advances in information and communication technology in a broader debate about development and the role of information. Next, it explores the interaction be...

Shirin Nosratnejad, Elham Shami. Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Services Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. (*Corresponding author); MSc of Health Services Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence for Health Management, Tabr...

pomegranate is an important iranian-native fruit, with many varieties cultivated. although the volume of data on the importance of pomegranates in human nutrition has increased tremendously in the last years, the physical properties of the pomegranate fruit during fruit maturity have not yet been studied in detail. thus, the present study aimed to evaluate changes in physical characteristics of...