the kind of land use and intensity of its change is considered as important desertification indices in different models. land use change is one of the main anthropogenic factors in the desertification. the current research was carried out around imam khomeini airport, with an area of 32000 km2, in order to evaluate mentioned area's land use changes effects during 1955-2003 on desertification. t...

abstract: autistic child may have a range of problems. failure of understand the meaning of words is the main characteristic of the autistic child. child `s ability to communicate may also be inappropriate. in briefly, the areas of language problems in these children, in other languages, are pragmatic and semantic. because of the difficulties of the working with autistic children, research rela...

background: evaluating the malaria status of the economic cooperation organization (eco) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd millennium development goals (mdgs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. methods: by 2009, we reviewed the mdgs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. the main stakeholders...

background: the frequency of pyruvate kinase (pk) deficiency, an autosomal recessive defect, is approximately 3 per 10,000 individuals in shiraz and surrounding areas, and is increased due to high consanguinity marriage frequency. the purpose of this study is to obtain data on the frequency and spectrum of gene mutation of pk in newborns, from shiraz and surrounding areas. materials and methods...