Acid drainage (AD) has been recognized as one of the major problems facing the Australian mining industry. Much of Australia has a semi-arid to arid climate and is sparsely populated. The impact of AD is therefore less here than in many other countries. Nevertheless, community and shareholder expectations, and the globalization of Australian mining company activities, have ensured the industry ...

Present-day climate cannot account for the presence of such lakes in the arid to semi arid area of Jordan. Therefore more intense and wetter Mediterranean cyclones in winter coupled with Arabian monsoon or even ArabianIndian monsoon in summer would have affected major parts of Jordan up to latitude 31° 32 ́ during the warmer periods of the Pleistocene and brought more rain to establish and susta...

pedogenesis and clay mineralogy of soils and rock samples were studied in a transect of calcareous, gypsiferous, saline soils and sediments of bakhtegan lake bank in southern iran. the main objectives of study were to determine the occurrence of clay minerals and factors controlling their distribution pattern and relative abundance in soils and parent materials. the soil parent material is high...

1. Dept. of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2. Immunology Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4. Research Center for Patient Safety, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

Societies in semi-arid areas in developing regions are amongst those most vulnerable to climate variability and potentially most vulnerable to climate change. The vulnerability to climate variability emerges from a combination of the level of availability of natural resources and the human dependency on these resources. In semi-arid regions, the limited availability of water and the low reliabi...

Madani A., Mohtasham N., Jazayeri M., Shahabian F., Shakeri M. a Dept. of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran b Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran c Dept. of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran d Dept. of ...

1 The excellence center for Animal Science and Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. 2 Immuno-Biochemistry lab., Immunology Research Center, Medical School, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Mashad, Iran. 3 The research Institute of Biotechnology, Ferdowsi Universiry of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. 4 Department of Fo...

desertification of the arid and semi-arid lands of the world has been proceeding for more than a thousand years.human-induced degradation in these areas is regularly cited as one of the principal causes of desertification.euphrates and tigris basin as the case study of this research in some aspects is almost unique in the world. but thisbasin has been confronted to progressive desertification. ...

Department of midwifery, Faculty of Midwifery, School of nursing and midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran 2 School of nursing and midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran PhD of Biostatistics, Associate Professor , Medical School, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], Mae...

1 Department of Midwifery in Medical University, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran 2 Department of Foreign Languages, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran * Corresponding author: Tahereh Fathi Najafi, Department of Midwifery in Medical University, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-5118687122, Fax: +98-5118687122, E-m...