Land degradation is one of the significant issues the human beings are confronted with, which has become a bottleneck of restricting the sustainable development of the regional society and economy. In order to ascertain the root causes contributed to the land degradation and characteristics of land degradation, Bijiang watershed, the most important Lead-Zinc mine area of Lanping county of Yunna...

Human pesticide poisoning has become major public health issue these days. Throughout the world highest levels of pesticide exposure are found in the farm workers, applicators and people living adjacent to heavily treated agricultural land. Pesticides are linked to various chronic diseases like cancers, infertility, kidney failure, reproductive problems and nervous disorders. The present study ...

Background:Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an emerging tick-borne viral zoonotic disease that endemic in Iran. The CCHF virus spread by RNA of the genus Orthonairovirus , family Nairoviridae. has been identified as most frequent hemorrhagic fever route transmission to humans through infected tick bites, contact with livestock, blood or tissues humans. Objectives: aim this study was in...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to adult death rates between 1995/1996 and 1998/1999 in some urban and rural populations in Zambia. METHOD A cohort of 2592 out of 3013 adults aged 15-49 years enrolled in a baseline survey in 1995/1996 in areas of Chelston Township (HIV prevalence 26.2%) and Kapiri Mposhi district (HIV prevalence 15.6%) were followed...

This paper propose the concept of big model as a novel research paradigm for regional and urban studies. Big models are fine-scale regional/urban simulation models for a large geographical area, and they overcome the trade-off between simulated scale and spatial unit by tackling both of them at the same time enabled by emerging big/open data, increasing computation power and matured regional/ur...

The purpose of research was analyzing educational needs of corn farmer's regarding biological control Bracon parasitoid of corn Caradrina in Dezful Township, Khouzestan province, Iran. The method of research was correlative descriptive. A random sample of Dezful township corn farmers of Khouzestan province, Iran (n=350) were selected for participation in the study. A questionnaire was developed...

This descriptive analytical survey was aimed to study the negative impacts of mine exploitations carried out in the rural regions of the Tekab Township located in Iran. The statistical population of the studied areas consisted of all the heads of the rural households in the villages located in the vicinity of the mines in the Tekab Township (N=2680). According to the Cochran formula, a sample s...