Copyright © 2014, Kowsar Corp.; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. During my much needed vacation in northern Iran, at the first leg of the journey, we stayed at a hotel complex ...

Two new species of laelapid mites of the genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till are described based on adult females collected from soil and litter in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, and Mazandaran Province, northern Iran. Gaeolaelaps jondishapouri Nemati & Kavianpour is redescribed based on the holotype and additional specimens collected in southeastern Iran. The concept of the genus is revised to...

This research aims to evaluate the presence and distribution of pesticides in Babolrood River of Mazandaran Province in Iran. Mean diazinon levels in surface water ranged from 77.6 to 101.6 μg L(-1) with maximum level of 768.9 μg L(-1) and mean malathion levels ranged from 55.7 to 75.9 μg L(-1) with maximum level of 506.6 μg L(-1). The residues of malathion and diazinon pesticides in all of the...

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect Islamic leadership and work ethics on employee performance banks in Riau province, whereby organizational culture became mediator variable. This employs Structure Equation Model (SEM) based Partial Least Square (PLS) with help SmartPLS 3.0 M3 software. data were collected by using a questionnaire from 275 respondents. respondent was an Provi...

AIM Both observational and experimental studies have shown that higher selenium status reduces the risk of upper gastrointestinal cancers in selenium deficient populations. Recent cancer registry data have shown very different rates of esophageal cancer (EC) and gastric cancer (GC) in four Provinces of Iran, namely Ardabil, Mazandaran, Golestan, and Kerman. The aim of this study was to have a p...

one priority of planning at the regional level is to recognize the system of residence and particularly its urban system. one of the features of urban system in each area or country is the way of population distribution between the cities of these areas which is called city distribution size. in functional analysis of mazandaran province 41 development indexes of educational, cultural, social, ...

background and purpose: breast cancer is the most common malignancy and a leading cause of cancer deaths in women throughout the world. breast cancer is accounted for 16 percent of all cancers. this study was performed to investigate the epidemiology of breast cancer in mazandaran province. materials and methods: this longitudinal descriptive study included all cases with breast cancer recorded...