Background. Postpartum depression (PPD) is considered as one of the mood disturbances occurring during 2-3 months after delivery. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of PPD and its associated risk factors in border city of Ilam, western Iran. Methods. Through a descriptive cross-sectional study in 2011, overall, 197 women who attended Obstetrics & Gynecology clinics postpartumly...

Background: Seasonality in suicide has been investigated from the early 19th century to explore the productive environmental variables. Seasonality studies can provide information on prevention and interventions in suicide. In this study, we examined seasonality in suicide and aimed to explore the differences in seasonality between rural and urban areas, mental disorders, and genders. Methods: ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition, especially under nutrition puts children at increased risk of morbidity and mortality and remains a serious barrier in child growth, development and survival. This is a major public health problem among under- 5 children in Nepal particularly in rural areas. OBJECTIVE To assess the burden and contributing factors for malnutrition in hill community of Ilam district in ...

OBJECTIVES Widespread use of β-lactam antibiotics could cause resistance to this group of antibiotics in pathogenic bacteria through the production of the enzyme β-lactamases. The aim of this study is to determine the molecular detection of AmpC β-lactamases among clinical Escherichia coli isolated from Ilam hospitals in Ilam, Iran. METHODS One hundred and twelve clinical isolates of E. coli ...

BACKGROUND Scorpions' stings and their own mortalities place them among the most important health and medical problems. The dreadful features and especially their poisonous stings are considered a major cause of human stress and abhorrence/phobia. The current study aimed to study the scorpion fauna of Ilam Province, south western Iran in order to manage scorpionism related problems. METHODS I...

/ Watershed-based planning has been held as a vanguard for integrated ecosystem management based on a collaborative process. Watershed managers, however, must contend with conflicts that run much deeper than interests for economic development versus sustaining ecosystem health. With data from a survey of members of watershed organizations, we characterize the valued-based conflicts that watersh...

Abstract The challenges behind this research were encountered while drilling into the Ilam, Mauddud, Gurpi, and Mishrif Formations, where severe instability-related issues observed across weaker formations above reservoir intervals. In paper, geomechanical parameters carried out to determine optimum mud weight windows safe deviation trajectories using parameters. We propose a workflow equivalen...

Watershed nutrient management is essential in minimizing the eutrophication rate of reservoirs. A shortcoming in nutrient management of watershed-reservoir systems has been the lack of successful linking of watershed and water body models to evaluate impact of watershed management options on reservoir water quality. The objectives of this research were to 1) calibrate and validate a Soil and Wa...

In this paper, we investigate the links between the flooding paradigm and the topological watershed. Guided by the analysis of a classical flooding algorithm, we introduce several notions that help us to understand the watershed: minima extension, extension map, and pass values. We investigate the possibility for a flooding to produce a topological watershed, and conclude that this is not feasi...

As originally conceived, watershed analysis is a synthesis of information that focuses on issues important to a particular watershed in the context of larger eco-scape scales. Some practitioners of watershed analysis have ascended a steep and unfamiliar learning curve of synthesizing between disciplines and agencies and addressing ecosystem issues at a large scale. Yet, after two years of inter...