The genus Silene includes 98 species in Iran, with 35 endemic to the Iranian plateau (26 species for Iran). The Iranian species are placed in 21 sections. In this article, the most important characteristics for the separation of the sections, relationships between the sections, and an identification key for the sections in Iran are presented. For each section a distribution map is provided. The...

patients with coagulation factor(s) deficiency who use coagulation therapy are susceptible to forming inhibitors against coagulation factor(s). in this survey we detected factor v and viii inhibitor in ten patients with combined deficiency of factors v and viii from north east of iran (khorassan province). it was revealed in our survey that eight patients had both factor v and factor viii inhib...

The TabaseColshan catastrophic earthquake of 16 September 1978 of magnitude M ~ 7 . 7 , the largest shock which has ever been recorded in Iran, occurred in Khorassan Province east central Iran (Fig. 1). The main shock took place in the evening, when most people were in their houses, at 19.38.18 local time (1535.58 GMT), without any felt foreshock. The preliminary instrumental epicentre is recor...

in this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in north khorassan province for the two periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance model. to evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix were used. results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. during study period, a decreas...

Microbiological water quality monitoring in Niassa province, Northern Mozambique, shows groundwater is not, in general, grossly contaminated though contamination levels are strongly linked to season and to risks observable at the wellhead, especially risks dealing with wellhead hygiene and maintenance. Diarrhea incidence, in general, is greatest in the rainy season suggesting poor wellhead prot...

Bromus sect. Triniusa is revised in Khorassan based on the new taxonomic concepts of Bromus danthoniae complex group and a remarkable herbarium material collected from Khorassan (Kopetdagh, northeastern Iran), as the main center of its diversity. Bromus turcomanicus, a narrow endemic species in central Kopetdagh hitherto known only from the type locality in southern Turkmenistan, is newly recor...

shahnameh researchers have not made enough attempts to find the correct forms of its toponymy. the variants of these names are frequently incompatible and sometimes incorrect. obviously the copiers of manuscripts have made little effort to record such names correctly and even at times they have inadvertently replaced the original names with the ones sounding more familiar to them. based on the ...