BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Hepatitis A is an enterically transmitted viral disease, highly prevalent in India and mainly presents as a paediatric sporadic disease. This study investigated an outbreak of viral hepatitis at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, during January-March 2007. METHODS Eighty seven blood samples, 3 water samples and 2 sewage samples were collected. Serum samples were tested fo...

Environmental surveillance of poliovirus on sewage has been conducted in Shandong Province, China since 2008. A type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) with 7 mutations in VP1 coding region was isolated from the sewage collected in the city of Jinan in December 2012. The complete genome sequencing analysis of this isolate revealed 25 nucleotide substitutions, 7 of which resulted in amino acid ...

in order to study the effect of intercropping (mix cropping) of three sesame genotypes (sabzevar, kashmar and kalat) a field experiment was conducted based on a complete randomized block design with three replications at research station, college of agriculture ferdowsi university of mashhad, in year 2009. the experimental treatments were: sole cultivation of sabzevar, kalat, kashmar genotypes,...

in order to study the effect of inter cropping (blend) of three sesame (sesamum indicum l.) cultivars (sabzevar, kashmar, kalat) an experiment was conducted as a factorial based on complete randomized block desing with 3 replications at research farm ferdowsi university in 2009. the experimental treatments were obtained: sole cultivation of sabzevar, kalat, kashmar, and their mixed crops (1. sa...

This paper presents a practical application of sewage network management strategy using radar data to control a detention-settling basin. This practical application, used in operational mode since January 2000, is based on three main notions. Firstly, the use of radar data without rainfall estimation. Secondly, the definition of some gradual risk levels for the sewage network by a detailed mode...

1. Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran 2. Dept. of Environmental Health, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran 3. Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical S...

abstract to study the effects of sewage sludge on tomato seedling growth, a series of pot experiments, each pot containing 17 kg soil, were conducted in a randomized complete design with eight replications. treatments used were: 5 levels of sewage sludge (5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 tons/ha) and two control treatments (t1, without sewage sludge and t2, sewage sludge + complete fertilizers). analysis o...

BACKGROUND More than half of the sexual problems in menopausal women are due to insufficient knowledge or false beliefs about sexual function. Theory of planned behavior (TPB) is one of the important theories that explain the main process of adopting healthy behaviors. This study investigates the effect of education based on TPB over sexual function of menopausal women in Sabzevar, Iran. MATE...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between anthropometric indices and the age of menarche in female students of Sabzevar, Iran. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted in Sabzevar, Iran, from April to September 2010, and involved girls of 11-18 years of age. The required sample size for analysing the relationship between menarche age and Body Mass Index was estimated to be 110 by...