Background and Aim: Currently, cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease, are one of the leading causes death in humans worldwide. In Eastern Mediterranean Middle East, our country, diseases major health social problems, size which is rapidly increasing. Due to growth medical technologies, population growth, lifestyle changes, studying consequences costs healthcare a critical is...

eremurus and forage are main by-products in the khazangah rangelands of makoo region. eremurus is harvested and used by local people in a period of 30 days during the spring in this region. at this study, eremurus and forage have been evaluated financially and the data were obtained through field work using unstructured interviews as well as direct observation. the harvested eremurus value was ...

Food security and economic welfare strongly depend on agricultural production, the loss of this production can be a serious challenge for food security and economic welfare. Agricultural production is also influenced by environmental and climatic factors so that the variations of climatic parameters can trigger extensive fluctuations in agricultural production. This study classifies climate cha...

A software application is presented, for the detection and measurement of capillaries in images of capillaroscopy. This software is comprised by a measurement module and a Graphical User Interface module. The measurement module segments capillaries in the input image. The user interface provides methods for the automatic and interactive measurement of capillaries at regions of interest. In addi...

The following ar ticle is based on the Outstanding Young Investigator Award presentation given by Ju Li on April 19, 2006, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Li received the award “for his innovative work on the atomistic and first principles modeling of nanoindentation and ideal strength in revealing the genesis of ma te rials deformation and fracture.” Defect n...

Background: Helicobacter pylori may cause many gastrointestinal problems in developing countries such as Iran. We aimed to analyze the cost- effectiveness and cost- utility of the test-and-treat and empirical treatment strategies in managing Helicobacter pylori infection.            Methods: This was a Markov based economic evaluation. Effect...

This editorial is adapted from a previous work by the author, “Seven Billion and 31 Gigatons: Making the Population–Climate Connection,” the author's presentation at Reproductive Health 2011, ARHP's annual clinical conference, and “Policy Review: Thoughts on Addressing Population and Climate Change in a Just and Ethical Manner,” which appeared in Population and Environment in 2009 and is cited ...

regarding the importance of natural resources in preserving natural ecosystem and human being survival, protecting these resources and preventing their demolition will be necessary. taleghan lake, alborz, is studied o determine the protective value and measuring the willingness of people. using the ahp approach, this study is different by using and non-using value of the lake. results from lagi...