information on the productivity, costs and applications of the logging system is a key component in the evaluation of management plans for the rehabilitation and utilization of caspian forests. skidding and road construction costs are expensive forest operations. determining the optimum forest road network density is one of the most important factors in sustainable forest management. logging me...

Title: Regional specification of threshold sensitivity and response time in CBA/CaJ mouse spiral ganglion neurons. Authors: Qing Liu and Robin L. Davis Affiliation: Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J., USA. Running Head: Regional specification of SGNs Contact Information: Dr. Robin L. Davis, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, 604 Allison Road,...

Xuting Shen, Jianmin Chen, Jiali Li, Julia Kofler and Karl Herrup Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms o...

road traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taking beh...

Introduction: Sleepiness may predispose drivers to road traffic accidents. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome is the most common medical cause of sleepiness. Hence increased neck circumference (NC) and obesity are known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome risk factors. This study was conducted to assess OSAS role in occurrence of road traffic accidents in sleeping drivers of commercial heavy veh...

Parabronema skrjabini is a spirurid nematode of the family Habronematidae that lives in the abomasum of ruminants such as sheep and goats. The purpose of this study was to investigate the molecular aspects of Parabronema skrjabini in sheep. The worms were collected from sheep in Sanandaj (west of Iran). The first internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) nucleotide fragments of ...

Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a familial hemolytic disorder with marked heterogeneity of clinical features, ranging from an asymptomatic condition to a fulminant hemolytic anemia. Although a positive family history of spherocytosis increases the risk for this disorder, it may be sporadic in some cases. In severe cases the disorder may be detected in early childhood, but in mild cases it may ...

To determine the prevalence of domestic physical violence against women and its associated factors in Sanandaj city, Islamic Republic of Iran, a random sample of 1000 married women completed a questionnaire. Of the respondents, 15% had been assaulted by their husbands at least once in the previous year and 38% at some time during the marriage. Economic problems were the most frequent cause of d...

In December 2011, a 42-year-old male farmer was admitted to a hospital in Sanandaj (Western Iran) with fever and anemia in order to check whether he suffered from some infectious diseases. During the first 3 days after admission, the patient gradually developed progressive oliguria, fever, abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant, leukocytosis with toxic granulation, petechiae and ecchymosis,...

The presented system takes the advantage of information-communication technology, ICT and introduces wireless networks’ methodology into vehicles and road infrastructure for a significant enhancement of road traffic safety. Warning signals are transmitted to the back of column of vehicles and it enables the distant drivers to stop in time or to make such operation automatically. Largescale simu...