BACKGROUND Once considered as the main public health problem in developed countries, obesity has become a major problem throughout the world and developing countries, like Iran, are joining the global obesity pandemic. We determined the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and hypertension in a large cohort of Iranians and compared age-adjusted rates with the rates in the US. METHODS Golestan C...

Richard Stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in Iran. There are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the Iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the Iranian scientific community. Iran's scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by Saddam Hossein in a way that production of Irania...

The evolution of plateau monsoons is essential to synoptic climatology processes over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Based on ERA-Interim Reanalysis data covering 1979–2014 from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), we propose a new plateau monsoon index (ZPMI) that can effectively reflect the evolution of monsoons and compare this new index with the existing Plateau Mons...

Twelve species of the genus Ophiomorus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839 have been identified and introduced so far seven this found in Iran which include four endemic three nonendemic species. Although geometric morphometry is a powerful tool to analyze morphological changes, discovery identification these long relied on traditional morphometric analysis. In study, analyses were used determine morphometr...

The unprecedented and long-lasting abnormal monsoon rainfall attacked Pakistan in the summer of 2022, causing severe flooding. This study investigated sub-seasonal characteristics mechanisms this distinctively extreme precipitation event. historical July August mainly occurred northern Pakistan. Both monthly 2022 during were far exceeding record involved unique spatial distribution. is nationwi...

reports on distribution and abundance of bats from iran exist since mid-nineteen century, but studies on this subject are very scarce and have been conducted very infrequently by european biologists who visited iran occasionally. until now, six caves have been investigated and eight species of cave-dwelling bats have been reported from ilam province in south-western iran. the present paper has ...

a review of the known iranian species of the genus asaccus is presented. the genus asaccus is divided into two distinct geographical lineages. the nominotypical group is endemic to the mesopotamian region (western iran, eastern iraq, turkey and syria), and includes asaccus elisae, a. griseonatus, a. kermanshahensis, a. kurdistanensis, a. nasrullahi and a. saffinae, all restricted to the zagros ...

Although microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants, little is known about their occurrence and behavior in the terrestrial setting. In this study, MPs have been isolated from soils collected various geomorphological features (yardangs, sand dunes, moving sands, seasonal lakes) of Kavir Lut Deserts on Iranian plateau. The number identified 300 g samples ranged zero (not detec...

The Manihiki Plateau is an elevated oceanic volcanic plateau that was formed mostly in Early Cretaceous time by hotspot activity. We analyze new seismic reflection data acquired on cruise KIWI 12 over the High Plateau region in the southeast of the plateau, to look for direct evidence of the location of the heat source and the timing of uplift, subsidence and faulting. These data are correlated...