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Received January 14, 2013. Accepted January 29, 2013. Correspondence to: Mohammad Reza Habibi, MD Mazandaran Heart Center, Hazrat Fatima Hospital, Artesh Boulevard, Mazandaran Province, Sari, Iran Tel: +98-1512226262, Fax: +98-1512268915, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// ...

today, there are a few dozens of historical index houses in the city sabzevar. reviews show that up until now, despite the presence of their special characteristics, variety and role, there have not been comprehensive studies about them but through the presence of valuable samples from various historical periods (teymouri, safavid, qajar, pahlavi), their exposure to destruction through changing...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tuberculosis (TB) poses a serious threat to public health throughout the world but disproportionately afflicts low-income nations. The aim of this study is to identify the high-risk areas in Mazandaran province (northern Iran) in helping the heath programmer for the best intervention. MATERIALS & METHODS This is an ecological study conducted from 1999 through 2008. The ...

Assessing the Probability of Forest Fire Occurring using Dong Model, Artificial Neural Network and K Nearest Neighbors in Babolrood Basin, Mazandaran

MANY patients in mental hospitals, while no longer needing the active treatment services of a hospital, are still unable to live in the community without help. In addition, there are many patients in the community for whom hospitalisation is not yet necessary but for whom some form of help is needed to prevent it in the near future. Voluntary and governmental groups have long been aware of the ...

Introduction: Nowadays, bedbug infestation is one of the public health problems around the world. The objective of this study was to evaluate the spatial distribution of bedbug in different parts of the infested houses. Moreover, the association between house sanitation and presence of bedbug infestation was determined in infested houses in Ahvaz City, Iran. Materials and Methods: Totally, 57 ...

This paper describes the development of a scale, the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES), which attempts to systematically assess the psychosocial environments of transitional community-oriented psychiatric treatment programs such as halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, day care centers, and community care homes. The psychometric characteristics of the scale are given, samp...

JANE CHRISTIE DAQUIN Vicarious Victimization: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Victimization While Incarcerated on Offender Reentry (Under the direction of DR. LEAH DAIGLE) Witnessing victimization in prison is a relatively new area of research. Prison victimization research focuses on direct experiences of victimization and its attending consequences; however, studies have not focused on th...

traditional houses enjoy an organizing with inner spaces based on religious and traditional notions of iranian families. space flexibility, readability, introversion, spatial hierarchy and family privacy have had a special status in architecture of iranian houses, replaced with an outward-oriented architecture. the traditional architecture which has had all the necessary spaces for any communic...