This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of 12 branches of the agricultural bank in Guilan province, Iran over the period of 2012-2016. The first results indicated that scale inefficiency contributed more to overall technical inefficiency than pure technical inefficiency over the studied period. Results of return to scale r...

it is related in studies concerning the timur’s military expedition and the monuments belonging to the sarbedaran rule that in 785/1383, after suppressing the people of sabzevar and conquering the city, timur ordered the rebels to be put amid the mud and bricks alive and make a minaret thereof. this report has in some instances as been a source of historical analyses as well. in the present art...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between anthropometric indices and the age of menarche in female students of Sabzevar, Iran. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted in Sabzevar, Iran, from April to September 2010, and involved girls of 11-18 years of age. The required sample size for analysing the relationship between menarche age and Body Mass Index was estimated to be 110 by...

Eocene intermediate to felsic subvolcanic rocks of the Torud-Ahmad Abad magmatic belt (TAMB), in northern part Central Iran zone, are exposed between Torud and Ahmad regions South-Southeast Shahrood. These igneous include hypabyssal dacite, trachyte, andesite, trachy-andesite, basaltic andesite; they mainly composed phenocrysts microcrystalline groundmass pyroxene, amphibole, plagioclase, with ...

the effect of foot reflexology on the outcomes of labor on primiparous moghimi hanjani s[1]*, mehdizadeh torzani z[2], shoghi m[3], ahmadi g[4] received: 20 may, 2012 accepted: 23aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: fear of labor pain is one of the problems that raises the rate of caesarean section in our country. midwifes can use one of the non-pharmacological pain relief methods such as refle...

azam  kadkhodaie1, mohammad bagheri2* 1-young researchers club, ardestan branch, islamic azad university, ardestan, iran 2-ardestan branch, islamic azad university, ardestan, iran       *corresponding author:  e-mail:[email protected]      received: 31 jun 2012 accepted: 8 october 2012     abstract tolerance to salt (nacl) and drought conditions of treated seeds (control, osmopriming and h...

conclusion lumbar medial branch nerve block under ultrasound guidance was associated with high rates of treatment success and excellent treatment outcomes for facet joint pain. it is also feasible and administers no radiation. thus, ultrasound-guided procedures can be used instead of conventional methods. results the success rate was 98% (87/89 blocks), which was due to our use of ultrasound gu...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. Oxidative stress and hyperhomocysteinemia may contribute to an increased risk of CVD. Therefore, we assessed the status of antioxidant and homocysteine-lowering vitamins related to cardiovascular disease in hemodialysis patients at Vasei hospital in Sabzevar. METHODS In this cross-sectional stu...