The I-district effect hypothesis establishes the existence of highly intense innovation in Marshallian industrial districts due to the presence of external localization economies. However, industrial districts are characterized by specific manufacturing specializations in such a way that this effect could be due to these dominant specializations. The objective of this research is to test whethe...

background: daylight availability data are essential for designing effectively day lighted buildings. in respect to no available daylight availability data in iran, illuminance data on the south facing vertical surfaces were estimated using a proper method. methods: an illuminance measuring set was designed for measuring vertical illuminances for standard times over 15 days at one hour interval...

abstract:we define as south asian countries those countries that start with iran and end with bangladesh in asia. wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (rca) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “western” developed and eastasian countries. statistical methods such as multidimensional sca...

comparability analyses are performed to investigate similarities/differences of the standard precipitation index (spi) and the reconnaissance drought index (rdi), respectively, utilizing precipitation and ratio of precipitation over potential evapotranspiration (et0). data are from six synoptic stations in south khorasan province in iran.at the first for calculating spi, the elevation-precipita...

background : chronic constipation is a common problem worldwide that negatively impacts quality of life. because of the effects of psychological and cultural factors on the function of the bowel tract and the vast variety of ethnicities and diet among the iranian people, the present study describes the occurrence of constipation and its associated factors in kerman, the largest city in southeas...

introduction: there are limited reports about selenium status in major thalassemia patients. the aim of this study is evaluation of selenium status in patients with major thalassemia south east of iran with large sample size and wide range of age. this study compared selenium status with other sites of the world. methods: in this study 369 cases that had major thalassemia for more than 5 years ...

objective: the problem of rti/sti is of growing concern worldwide, especially in developing countries; where each year 340 million new cases curable sti occur. out of these 151 million are in south and southeast asia (who, 2001). the present paper attempts to capture the prevalence of leukorrhea, its knowledge and perceptions among currently married women of the age-group, 15-49 years, in a sou...

introduction: gastric cancer is the second most common gi malignancy in zahedan. this investigation was undertaken to define the demographic,clinicopathological, and prognostic factors relevant to patients withgastric adenocarcinoma. methods: we did a retrospective study of 100 patientswith gastric cancer who had been at ali ebne abitaleb hospital and khatam al anbia hospitalin 2004-2006. data ...

background and objective: since it is essential for the research policy makers to acquire knowledge about the global ranks of their countries in in pathology and forensic medicine subject areas, scientometrics experts have been always ranking and analyzing countries on the basis of ‘total number of papers’, ‘total number of citations’ and ‘citations per paper’, etc. materials and methods: the ...