The main purpose of this study was to investigate patient dose in the chest (PA/AP/LAT) and skull (PA/AP/LAT) X-ray examinations, as frequent procedures. The study was performed in eight public hospitals of Khuzestan province, Iran. Patient dosimetry was conducted on 567 standard patient X-ray examinations (males: 61.2%, female: 38.2%). Dosimetry protocol in this study was indirect method, acco...

purpose: to evaluate four southern provinces of iran for trachoma by rapid assessment of trachoma (rat) during 2004. methods: this descriptive study was performed in rural areas of four probable contaminated provinces in south of iran including bushehre, kerman, hormozgan, and sistan and baluchestan. by multistage sampling, 5328 subjects including 4782 children aged 1-9 years and 546 adults wer...

in this study, surface water samples were collected monthly from five stations inclduing nayband bay, assaloye, dayer, kabgan and bushehr from december 2012 to june 2013. sampling stations were chosen according to data being collected during algal bloom caused by cochlodinium polykrikoides in 2008. a total of 45 genera of phytoplankton belongs to four classes were totally identified accounting ...

This is the first large-scale study to assess climate change impact on grain yield of rainfed wheat for three provinces contrasting climatic conditions (temperate, cold semi-arid, and hot arid) in Iran. Five integrative scenarios including +0.5°C temperature plus−5% precipitation, +1°C plus−10%, +1.5°C plus−15%, +2°C plus−20%, +2.5°C plus−25% were used evaluated. Nitrogen fertilizer shifting pl...

Non-compliance with fishing regulations by Iranian fishermen in three provinces of Khuzestan, Bushehr, and Hormozgan along the Persian Gulf was investigated. Using a questionnaire and a stratified random sample method, a total of 566 fishermen were interviewed. The legitimacy variables (outcome and process) that can explain the observed noncompliance with zoning regulations for the shrimp fishe...

Road safety is one of the influential factors in reducing road accidents and the resulting injuries and fatalities. The aim of this study is to determine the safety position of the roads of the Bushehr province based on various quantitative and qualitative criteria. For this purpose, a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach has been utilized. In this approach, first all criteria influen...

  Khark and Kharko Islands are located at far northern point of fringing coral reefs in the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf. These coralline are the habitats of the wildlife refuge with total area of 2400ha and located in the territory of Bushehr province. The present study was carried out from July 2006 to June 2007 over 12 stations. Sampling was conducted obliquely from bottom using Bongo-n...

introduction        a dialect is a variety of a language used by group of people whose lexicon, syntax, phonetics and phonology are different from those of other people. the existence of many geographical, economic and social barriers among the speakers of a language cause the emergence of many dialects. as such, each language has many dialects and accents and each dialect has many different ac...