The cucumber moth, Diaphania indica (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is a tropical and sub-tropical cucurbits pest and a key greenhouse pest in the Jiroft region of Iran. In this study, the effect of different temperatures on the development of this pest was investigated on cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae), leaves in a growth chamber at various constant temperature...

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a webometric analysis of web sites of medical universities of Iran. This study was conducted in Sept 2012 using Majestic SEO, Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. The number of web pages, external inlinks, rich files and the total rank for 43 universities with active exclusive web sites were calculated. Findings indicated that Tehran Uni...

The Achaemenids and Sasanian ‘Persian’ Empires were significant political, economic, social forces in the Late Iron Age Antiquity Eurasia, respectively, which have left marks on heritage of Mediterranean Middle Eastern world. While attention is often focused military political conditions when discussing prosperity decline these imperial powers, their realms, crossed a variety environmental sett...

the genus ixiolirion, belonging to the amaryllidaceae family, contains about 3 species distributed in center and southwest of asia and northeast of africa. the iranian flora consists of only one bulbous flowering species; ixiolirion tataricum (pall.) herb., with the persian name of “khiarak”. in the present work, i. tataricum was collected, during the flowering stage, from the sarduiyeh area in...

Abstract Given rapid socio-economic development, increasing food demand and decreasing available resources, the challenge of seasonal fluctuations surface water has become a major problem in agricultural sector, causing change consumption from to groundwater resources reduction farmers' income. Therefore, optimal programming cropping pattern is necessary handle such challenges. To accomplish th...

One of the major factors, contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases in the environment is generation of pollutant gases in municipal landfills. As for the design and building of a gas collecting system, it is necessary to properly estimate the amount and type of the landfill emissions. By means of LandGEM model, this study predicts the amount and type of the landfill gases, produced for ...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fertilizers on the yield and essential oils of basil. this experiment was carried out in completely randomized block design with three replications in jiroft area. the treatments included three levels of barvar 2 (10, 20 and 25 g/ha), cow manure at three levels (5, 10 and 15 ton/ha), ammonium phosphate and superphosphate triple each at three le...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Jiroft district has subtropical climate and prone to seasonal malaria transmission with annual parasite index (API) 4.2 per 1000 in 2006. Anopheles stephensi Liston is a dominant malaria vector. The monitoring of insecticide susceptibility and irritability was conducted using discriminative dose as described by WHO. METHODS The IV instar larvae were collected from diff...