Small pelagic fishes particularly anchovy (Encrasicholina punctifer) and sardine (Sardinella sindensis) have an important role to support the Iranian fisheries, and are distributed along the entire length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea coastal waters. Using small pelagic fisheries logbook, a GIS-based environmental modelling approach was applied to investigate the presence and abundance of an...

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...

china is one of the oldest and most important countries in the world that has had an important role in the process of pottery production. especially chinese potters have had an inimitable skill in production of porcelain wares. although impress of chinese pottery on iran returns to the early periods after islam but during timurid and safavid periods this impress is more greater especially in ma...

Device-performances of 3.7 THz indirect-pumping quantumcascade lasers are demonstrated in an InGaAs/InAlAs material system grown by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. The lasers show a low threshold-current-density of ~420 A/cm and a peak output power of ~8 mW at 7 K, no sign of parasitic currents with recourse to well-designed coupled-well injectors in the indirect pump scheme, and a maximum o...

during the past decades, attempts have been made to develop an early warning system for coming destructive earthquakes a few seconds before the ongoing ground motion. in this paper, a practical method for the early warning of earthquakes in south iran is presented. this region is selected for study because it has high potential for generating earthquakes and has a more complete strong ground mo...

in this issue of irjo panahi and coworkers have presented an extensive and interesting review on ocular manifestations of mustard gas (mg) which includes the clinical, immunochemical, pathology, etc. of mg. mg which has been used as an aggressive, vesicant, and destructive warfare agents in the last century still being used in our time. therefore, it is mandatory for all of us to be aware of it...

the zagros fold- thrust belt as a part of alpine- himalayan orogenic belt, is one of the most active continental collision zones on the earth, which extends from the tarus mountains in south eastern turkey to the minab fault in the east of the strait of hormoz in southern iran. structurally, its formation is related to the continuing convergent movement between the arabian plate to the southwes...

since the modern protocols of chemoreduction1 and local treatments of regressed retinoblastoma (rb) has been proposed and in the developed countries efforts have been made to salvage and preserve the diseased eye, the protocols have found way and being applied in the developing countries, but for what prices? in this issue of the iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) (pages: 17-24) naseripour...

amplitudes of seismic waves decrease with distance according to anelastic properties of the earth and geometrical spreading. the attenuation of ground-motion amplitudes in the frequency domain is an important problem in engineering seismology. it is of particular practical interest in the regions such as zagros (iran). the zagros fold- thrust belt, as a part of alpine- himalayan orogenic belt i...

So far mutations analysis was performed in terms of transitions and trasversions, so on the basis of the molecule, or in terms of GC-content and isochors, through the quantification of GCAT mutations over ATGC mutations. We tried a different approach hypothesizing that probably we are partially protected (by the genetic code) from amyloid fibrils formation. The codon table The analysis of mut...