BACKGROUND There have been numerous studies on dinosaur biogeographic distribution patterns. However, these distribution data have not yet been applied to ecological questions. Ecological studies of dinosaurs have tended to focus on reconstructing individual taxa, usually through comparisons to modern analogs. Fewer studies have sought to determine if the ecological structure of fossil assembla...

aSchool of Public Health, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas; bDepartment of Medical Entomology & Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; cDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Biotechnology Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; dDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad Uni...

1Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Amir Emami Zeydi, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9355952357, Fax: +98-51385915...

A model analysis of climate and CO2 controls on tree growth in a semi-arid woodland G. Li, S. P. Harrison, and I. C. Prentice Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading University, Reading, UK AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystem and the...

Optimisation of PM scheduling for multi-component systems – a simulated annealing approach Mohammad Doostparast a , Farhad Kolahan b & Mahdi Doostparast c a Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company (IOPTC) , Tehran , Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad , Iran c Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences , Ferdowsi Unive...

1 Assistant professor, Oro-maxillofacial developmental diseases research center, Department of oral medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Dental school, Rasht, Iran 2 Associate professor, Dental Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Dental School, Mashhad, Iran 3 Assistant professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

Corresponding author: Mohammad Hassan Nezafati Department of Cardiac Surgery Ghaem Hospital Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Mashhad, Iran PO Box: 91878544 Phone: +989151578421 Fax: +985136078099 E-mail: mhnezafati@yahoo. com 1 Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Cardiac Su...

i Corresponding Author, M.H. Yaghmaee Moghaddam is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh is a graduate student in Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran (e-ma...

Ice bodies in the semi-arid mountainous regions of Chile are of vital importance for the local population. As variations of their extent are often associated with climate change, this study focuses on the glaciers and glacierets situated in the Commune Alto del Car‐ men and local and regional climate. We combine statistically Landsat satellite imagery, historical and ongoing weather data. The p...