Abstract Past vegetation and environmental changes the role of climate as well human activities are major interest. The Hyrcanian region with a high number endemic species has poorly known paleoenvironmental history, especially western northern Iran. This study aims to investigate radiocarbon-dated sediment core Kholasht-Kouh Lake (KHL) for recorded between ca. 510 1180 cal yr BP. KHL is locate...

Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs and Lullabies. Study about lullabies as part of Folklore is relatively new science, however collection of its material is a very difficult job because this treasure mostly collected and obtained from the memory of illiterate and uneducated people. It needs a great effort and stability for ...

nowadays, invasive species are a major threat to biodiversity and create many economic losses. modeling for predict the distribution trends of invasive species is considered as a biodiversity management tool. raccoon is a native species in north and central america, and nowadays it is an invasive species in many countries such as japan, germany and russia. raccoon was observed for the first tim...

every year a large number of migratory wintering water birds, rest in the wetlands situated in the northern provinces of iran. the wetlands are very important ecosystems for these creatures. due to ecological importance of water birds, the results of this study (the birds’ populations and their changes) are helpful to monitor them and are especially important to manage the wetlands. in this stu...

this research aims to investigate visibility, web impact factor (wif), rwif and the collaboration rate of the websites of the iranian universities dominated by the ministry of science, research and technology (msrt), and health and medical education (mhrme), using an analysis of the various links among these websites and webometrics. from all 119 websites belonging to the iranian universities, ...

background: eosinophilia occurs in a wide variety of situations such as parasitic infections, aller­gic disorders, and malignancies. most cases of eosinophilia of parasitic origin, especially those with a tissue migration life cycles consists of human infections by helminth parasites. the aim of present study was to determine the parasitic causes of eosinophilia in patients in a major endemic a...

abstract background: in iran gastric cancer is the second most common cancer and the most cause of death cancer, the aim of this study is provide map geographical distribution of gastric cancer and detect high risk cluster with use of space-time scan statistic. methods: this was an applied study. the data is provided from reports published by center for disease control office in ministry of hea...

Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...