In contrast to developments in other world regions, efforts to institutionalize regional economic cooperation in East Asia have been weak. Though Southeast Asian economies have taken action toward trade liberalization (ASEAN Free Trade Area), the major economies of the region such as China, Japan and Korea have not been part of any formal trade groupings until recently. Ongoing economic coopera...

Abstract Regarding disadvantages of fossil fuels, renewables like geothermals can be an eco-friendly source energy. In Iran, the availability fuels and poor policies surrounding subsidies (ranked as first in giving subsidies) caused high energy consumption (1.75 times higher than global average). Energy is mainly provided by that leads to CO 2 emission. This study evaluates trend potentials mor...

Indian Ocean is known as a source of moisture for southeast of Iran due to summer precipitation. In this study, in order to investigate the role of SST of Indian Ocean, and the convergence and divergence fields in the precipitation of southeast of Iran, precipitation data of five synoptic stations were used during 2000-2010, including Iranshahr, Khash, ChahBahar, Zabul, and Saravan. To investig...

This paper presents a typo-technological analysis of the lithic assemblage from excavation Mesolithic site Altappeh (southeast Caspian Sea). The was excavated by C. McBurney and archaeological materials were divided between University Cambridge National Museum Iran. research is based on chipped stones stored in assemblage, consisting mostly flake tools including various scrapers notchdenticulat...

Myiasis is the infection caused by a variety of dipterous (fly) larvae in vertebrate's tissue (man and domestic or wild animals). Species of Gasterophilus are obligate parasite of horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and rhinoceroses. There are records worldwide, but mostly, in tropical and subtropical regions. This case report describes a type of gastric myiasis caused by G. intestinalis in an o...

OBJECTIVES Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the world. The aim of this study was to investigate the provincial distribution of the incidence of CRC across Iran. METHODS This epidemiologic study used data from the National Cancer Registry of Iran and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Healt...

A total of 200 faecal samples, received between January and December 2004 from patients with acute diarrhoea, were of patients with acute brucellosis (69 families) who were referred to Boo-Ali Hospital (Southeast Iran) were enrolled in this study and serologically screened for brucellosis using the standard agglutination test (SAT). Titer of 160 or more was considered positive and diagnostic Ti...

Mules are known to have been used as carriage and riding animals in Mesopotamia and Anatolia as early as the beginning of the second millennium BC but may have been first bred in Anatolia in the Third Century BC. They have thus contributed to Turkey's cultural, social and economic heritage for more than 4,000 years and were an ancient component of its guild of domestic animals and overall biodi...