BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis constitutes a major public health problem in many parts of the world including Iran. The primary objective of this study was to identify Leishmania species in endemic districts of Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran. METHODS This study was conducted by random sampling as cross- sectional descriptive between 2008 and 2010. Overall, 203 skin scraping smears we...

Introduction: Tuberculosis infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious diseases, especially in countries such as Iran. The course treatment and number drugs used vary depending on severity disease parts body involved. resistant to has increased recent years. Thus, this study was conducted investigate frequency distribution response patients with Sirjan, M...

the aims of this study were to evaluate the treatment efficiency and effectiveness of vetiveria zizaniodesof two samples of unconventional water of golgohar mining and industrial company. the experimental samples were included mine wastewater and saline ground water. this research was conducted in a greenhouse at central water research laboratory of university of tehran. this experiment was des...

BACKGROUND Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is usually one of the main problems in industrial settings. The aim of this study was to determine whether changes in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in different DPOAE are caused by exposure to different levels of noise at different time intervals among workers exposed to noise. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in the autumn of 2014 o...

introduction development of natural resources and mining activities are prerequisite for economic and industrial growth in many countries. in many cases, such mining areas lie within residential or agricultural lands or natural habitats intensifying the contradiction between land use and environmental protection. different components of mining activities including exploration, extraction and pr...

The genetic algorithm (GA) is an evolutionary optimization algorithm operating based upon reproduction, crossover and mutation. On the other hand, particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a swarm intelligence algorithm functioning by means of inertia weight, learning factors and the mutation probability based upon fuzzy rules. In this paper, particle swarm optimization in association with genetic a...