Introduction: Identifying factors influencing infants' anthroponmetric indices is very important in improving maternal and neonatal health levels. The present analytical discriptive study has been done to determine the significant factors affecting the nutritional status of infants in Bojnord. Method: In this servey done in 2001 a total number of 566 infants and their mothers were studied. The ...

parameters recognize different area weather and climatic and effect on the plants one of the best important effect elements is increase products yield. agro climatic study can state area ability and maximum exploit its. the aim of this research is, recognizing of the ability ecologic potential in different areas for cultivating brassica napus in regard to climatic temperature needs in khorasan ...

introduction: according to millennium development goal (mdg) number 4, child mortality should be reduced by two thirds by 2015.  the focus has been on decreasing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. in this study, we assessed the recorded causes of neonatal hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) and infant care wards. methods: the present cross-sectional study was ca...

abstract precipitation as the most important factor plays the main role in many application researches which are based on climatic parameters. many researches in the field of hydrology, hydrometeorology and agriculture employs rain-gauges (such as synoptic and climatologic stations) data. precipitation characteristics, such as rainfall intensity and duration, usually exhibit significant spatial...

objective: grape virus diseases are a serious problem in iran. leaves and fruits of grape have been used for different purposes like cooking in iran. the present investigation was carried out to study on the cytotoxic-activities of extracts of fruits and leaves of vitis vinifera from both virus-free and virus-infected grape cultivars against breast cancer cell line (mda-mb-231) and human embryo...

in order to study the genetic diversity of the causal agent of fusarium wilting in chickpea, two techniques including rapd and pcr-rflp were used. in rapd-pcr technique, all 14 primers could show the diversity among the isolates. after studding the banding patterns of 14 primers, a dendrogram based on similarity matrix was constructed. the rapd dendrogram analysis could not separate isolates ba...

Background:Quality of life is low among mothers of premature infants; therefore, developing a post-discharge care program can be effective. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of implementing a discharge program on the quality of life of mothers with premature infants. Method: This randomized, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 60 mothers with premature infants in the neona...