The aim of study was: 1To compare leaders' behavior in public with private sector industrial firms of Fars Province (one of the southern province of Iran). 2To identify the relationship between the type of leaders' behavior and efficiency in these industries. 3To identify the relationship between the type of leaders' behavior and ROI . LBDQ used in order to collect data. In order to analyze the...

Contagious agalactiae is a disease of sheep & goats, which is caused by Mycoplasma agalactiae and induces heavy economic losses. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify M. agalactia from sheep and goats at Fars province. Clinical samples such as milk, eye swabs and synovial fluids were collected from infected animals. The collected samples were transferred in a transport medium which ...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite infects most of warm-blooded animals, including birds. Turkeys are one of these animals which might be infected by this parasite. Little is known about the prevalence of T. gondii in turkeys in Iran. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the rate of Toxoplasma infection in turkeys...

PURPOSE A prevalence survey was performed to estimate the magnitude and predictors for needlestick injury (NSI) in nurses of Fars province hospitals. METHODS Questionnaires were distributed in 52 hospitals to a stratified random sample of 2,118 (46.3%) nurses between April and September 2005 to collect self-reported NSI in the past 12- months. RESULTS Of the 1,555 nurses who returned a comp...

BACKGROUND This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older persons living in nursing homes and the quality of work life for care providers. The purpose of this pape...

PURPOSE Traffic injuries are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Pedestrians have been considered as a high-risk group among road users, especially in middle- or low-income communities. This study attempted to determine the burden of pedestrians' fatalities in Fars, the southern province of Iran using years of life lost (YLL) approach. METHODS The data used in this ...

AIM To correct the misclassification in registered gastric cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Gastric cancer data is extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration report 2008. A Bayesian method with beta prior is implemented to estimate the rate of misclassification in registering patient's permanent residence in neighboring province. Ea...

This study focuses on the structural picture interpretation of Buzurgan oil field in Maysan province southern Iraq. Using 2D seismic data, Synthetic traces are created by selecting reflectors section using Petrel software and well (BU-1) data currently available. The represented Paleocene to middle Miocene, which L-Fars-Kirkuk-Jaddala-Aaliji. A thrust fault that solely impacts L-Fars formation ...

BACKGROUND Giardia duodenalis is one of the most common human intestinal protozoan parasites worldwide and is endemic throughout the world with a vast range of mammalian hosts. The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of G. duodenalis isolates and determine the most common of its assemblages in the patients referring to health centers and hospitals in Fars province, Iran that will be ...