camel is a resistant species to drought and cold weather and produces milk and meat in harshest environmental condition. camel population in iran has been decreasing during last decades, and genetic studies are quite necessary for considering the conservation and productivity of this species. in this study growth hormone gene influencing growth, milk production and reproduction was considered. ...

BACKGROUND As social health is a condition-driven, dynamic and fluid concept, it seems necessary to construct and obtain a national and relevant concept of it for every society. Providing an empirical back up for Iran's concept of social health was the aim of the present study. METHODS This study is an ecologic study in which available data for 30 provinces of Iran in 2007 were analyzed. In o...

Kaveh PourAkbar Saffar1,2 , Nima JamilPour3 and Gholamreza Rouhi4 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3School of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran 4Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Human Kinetics, Uni...

Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, ...

to suceed in sport arena, provinces should have plans parallel with national sport plans. khorasan razavi province as one of the provinces that has played a vital role in iran sport lacks a comprehensive plan in sport and sport activities are follwoed randomly. therefore, this study aimed at developing the strategic plan of sport and youth organization of khorasan razavi in sport and physical e...

 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...

the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of bovine leukemia virus (blv) in khorasan razavi and khorasan shomali provinces which are the main provinces located in the northeast of iran. total number of 429 blood samples were collected from industrial dairy herds. the samples were categorized based on province, age (2-3, 4-6, and 7-10 years old), calving (≤ 2, 3-5, and > 5) and h...

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...