BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and intensity of helminths and their zoonotic importance in small rodents inhabiting in the suburban areas of Hamadan City, Iran. METHODS The present survey was conducted on the helminth infections of two species of rodents Apodemus sylvaticus (n=60) and Mus musculus(n=72) in the suburban areas of Hamadan City during 2010-2012. Rodents were collected and...

Human factor is one of the most important causes for traffic accidents. This study has been designed to determine the presence of alcohol and drug abuse among drivers killed in car accidents in Hamadan, Iran during a one year period. This study was conducted as a post-mortem series design. Forensic autopsies were performed on all drivers killed in car accidents who were referred to the Hamadan ...

The article discusses changes in production and the of pottery used towns Pomerelia early-modern period. These considerations are based on advanced research late-medieval pottery-making region relatively poorer state knowledge about continuity transformations at beginning vantage point for this study is a characterisation source base, including both artefactual written evidence. This enables tr...

this paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of gilund in rajsamand district ofrajasthan. though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of gilund with layers ascertained to it. this paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...

Abstract The present paper discusses the geochemical affinities, origin and ages of Jurassic granitoids Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone (SaSZ) in eastern part Zagros Thrust Zone. A multidisciplinary, integrated approach was carried out using existing granitoid data (major, trace, rare earth element isotopes) knowledge regional geology (geodynamic metamorphic setting), coupled with geophysical (magnetic su...

Motivated by the requirements of the present archaeology, we are developing an automated documentation system for archaeological classification and reconstruction of ceramics. Our system works with the profile of an archaeological fragment, which is the cross-section of the fragment in the direction of the rotational axis of symmetry. Ceramic fragments are recorded automatically by a 3D-measure...