As an ancient scourge, plague caused deadly epidemics in medieval Europe, and in the 20th century, it caused extensive mortality in India and Vietnam. Crossing into the 21st century, it has attracted particular attention as a potential bioweapon, for which a new vaccine needs to be developed. Human plague syndromes are mainly bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic, all caused by the bacterium Yersi...

INTRODUCTION: In the first half of April 2019, heavy rains in central and western parts of Iran resulted in great floods. The rains affected 24 provinces and caused extensive damage to urban and rural infrastructure. Since Iran, especially the northern, western, and southern provinces of Iran are prone to floods, the floods are expected to occur every year in many provinces. Therefore, the pres...

Introduction. The study of errors in medicine has evolved from simply measuring their occurrence to a more detailed examination of the source of such errors. With many errors associated with of lack of access to information and inefficient coordination among team members, interventions are clearly desirable. The goal of our study was to examine the information and coordination needs in an inter...

Image retrieval models typically represent images as bags-of-terms, a representation that is wellsuited to matching images based on the presence or absence of terms. For some information needs, such as searching for images of people performing actions, it may be useful to retain data about how parts of an image relate to each other. If the underlying representation of an image can distinguish b...

The paper describes a nomadic guide that considers the context of use (CoU) for information selection and presentation. A nomadic system is defined by continuous access to information spaces independent from specific devices. The CoU is defined by the location and characteristics of the user. Interests of the user deduced from the navigation in the physical and information space are the main go...

Sir, We have observed that Balaustium murorum (Acarina: Erythraeidae) can cause dermatitis. B. murorum has a habit of climbing walls and invading buildings, and has very generalized feeding habits. Its biology is not yet fully known, however, and more attention needs to be given to infestation on buildings, walls and weeds around hospitals during summer. In this paper, we report a case of exten...