BACKGROUND Despite the higher prevalence of overweight and obesity among young people in western countries, the 50th and 95th percentile ranks for waist circumference in the Iranian young Females are higher than those of the western ones. OBJECTIVES Identifying major dietary patterns in Iranian young females, which associate with central obesity, can probably explain the difference between Ir...

We investigated the role of culture in processing hierarchical syntactic structures in music. We examined whether violation of non-local dependencies manifest in event related potentials (ERP) for Western and Iranian excerpts by recording EEG while participants passively listened to sequences of modified/original excerpts. We also investigated oscillatory and synchronization properties of brain...

The evolution of plateau monsoons is essential to synoptic climatology processes over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Based on ERA-Interim Reanalysis data covering 1979–2014 from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), we propose a new plateau monsoon index (ZPMI) that can effectively reflect the evolution of monsoons and compare this new index with the existing Plateau Mons...

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, as the most prevalent approach to evaluate earthquake hazard, is commonly based on catalogs. Although previous studies show that recurrence time of large-magnitude (Mw> 7.0) events in Iran more than ~ 1000–2000 years, available instrumentally recorded earthquakes are limited less 100 years. With idea having another proxy for seismicity rates, we propose a ...

Background: New organizational structures have changed rapidly, and progressive ladders have become short and flat, so human resources in the organization have faced various threats, including the career plateau. Lack of attention to ethical criteria as a double factor in the management process can be one of the causes of career plateau. Therefore, the present study attempted to design and expl...

1Endocrine and Metabolism Research Centre, Doctor Shariati Hospital, Tehran University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Health Research and Education Unit, Healthcare Organization, National Iranian Oil Corporation, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 30/07/02; accepted: 27/03/03 ABSTRACT To estimate the direct cost of coronary heart disease (CHD) to the Iranian oil industry, we calcu...

The Blackwater River is a natural division in the central part of the British Columbia Interior Plateau that separates the Nechako Plateau to the north from the Fraser Plateau to the south. Bedrock mapping in the southemmost part of the Nechako Plateau began in 1992, and to date an area of 3500 square kilometres, centred on the Fawnie and Nechako ranges, has been mapped at l:50 000 scale (Fig...

the revival of chalcolithic sites have a particular importance in tracing the settlement patterns of the region, in the aegis of special biological features and replacing in environmental elements. by depicting the special features, the characteristics of plain of hamedan and its strength in northern plain (kaboodarhang) must be hinted. this plain is determined as a joint fund between central z...