In order to address long healthcare waits, political and professional groups have recommended sending patients to other provinces for diagnostic procedures or treatment. We investigated the feasibility of such recommendations, specifically, whether residence in one province can impede access to MRIs in another province. We contacted all public MRI facilities in Canada and found no difference in...

twenty four isolates of cercospora beticola were collected from khuzestan, ardebil, golestan and mazandaran provinces and purified, and one isolate was used to represent each province. after optimization of spore production on different media, pathogenic variability of selected isolates on five sugar beet varieties with different levels of resistance was studied under green house condition. fou...

background: visceral leishmaniasis is caused by leishmania infantum , transmitted to humans by bites of phle­botomine sand flies and is one of the most important public health problems in iran. to identify the vector(s), an investiga­tion was carried out in bilesavar district, one of the important foci of the disease in ardebil province in northwest­ern iran, during july - september 2008 . meth...

chronology of northwestern iran is principally based on archeological excavations of the area located around urmia lake. although plain and filled with water, and the outcomes of these excavations are extended to the whole northwestern region. however, northwestern iran despite having geographical diversities with mountainous plains and low stretches, systematic and comprehensive studies have b...

The rapid world economic growth have stimulated the businesses towards involvement in international marketplaces due to their low business risks, low commitment of resources and high flexibility. However, the evidence indicates barriers to export are thought to vary across different stages of internationalization. Therefore, this empirical study was carried out to explore export barriers of agr...

BACKGROUND To prevent and control the cancers in Iran, the Iranian Department of Health has released the cancer rates data of the country. As the report has suggested, the incidence rate of thyroid cancer would be the most rapidly increasing among all the cancers. The study has aimed to carry out a qualitative assessment of thyroid cancer in Iran, during the 2004 to 2009, in a cross-sectional s...

BACKGROUND Addiction for narcotics is a dangerous reality, especially in teenagers and young persons, and is one of the most important socioeconomic and health problems, threatens the human society and leads to social stagnancy in various aspects. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed at determining Meta-cognitive relationship with addiction potential tendency in students and determining the dis...