the qom formation, a series of shales, sandstones and carbonate deposits, is the last transgression of the sea in central iran sedimentary basin. foraminifera are one of the most important and numerous fossil groups present in the qom formation. in this study, the micropaleontology of the qom formation in three measured stratigraphic sections in south and west of tafresh (rakin, band-e-ali nagh...

BACKGROUND As a performance evaluating program, healthcare indicators of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the end year of the 4th five-year socioeconomic strategic plan (2008) were evaluated in comparison with the same indicators at the 1st year of the 9th government (2004). METHODS The indicators were selected with the Delphi technique among the published indicators in the two period of time ...

INTRODUCTION We report the incidence, distribution, etiology, and outcome of the urogenital trauma in 8 major cities of Iran according to the database of national trauma project. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2000 and 2004, we prospectively collected the data of all the traumatic patients hospitalized for more than 24 hours in 8 cities (Tehran, Mashad, Ahwaz, Shiraz, Tabriz, Qom, Kermanshah, ...

Prevalence of urolithiasis in childhood is increasing. The wide geographic variation in the incidence of lithiasis in childhood is related to climatic, dietary, and socioeconomic factors. Many children with stone disease have a metabolic abnormality. In Southeast Asia, urinary calculi are endemic and are related to dietary factors. The main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of r...

Introduction: New Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused serious health problems worldwide. The first started in Wuhan, China, and then resulted thousands of deaths throughout the world. Case Presentation: According to data from involved patients, children neonates include a small proportion patients with COVID-19. However, some cases, hospitalization even death still may occur. In this...

One of the important applications of the quality of monitoring (QoM) on target tracking in wireless sensor networks is reducing the overall power consumption in the monitoring / tracking procedures. We present, an optimal (sensor) transmission power problem is analytically formulated and its optimal solution is found such that a given constraint on the QoM is satisfied. Next, an optimum quantiz...

Noise is a common and widespread problem in workplaces. Noise can lead to hearing loss, hypertension, nervous and mental disorders, annoyance and stress, sleep disturbance, negative impact on productivity and working capacity. The undesirable effects of noise on an individual or group are called annoyance. Some personal and social characteristics can affect on annoyance. This study was aimed to...

Integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources continues to be a critical problem for many application domains and a challenge for researchers world-wide. Schema matching, a fundamental aspect of integration, has been a well-studied problem. However researchers have, for the most part, concentrated on the development of different schema matching algorithms, and their performance with respec...

Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is transmitted to humans by phlebotomine sand fly bites. ZCL is a major health problem in Iran, where basic knowledge gaps about sand fly species diversity persist in some ZCL-endemic areas. This paper describes the richness and spatial distribution of sand fly species, collected with sticky traps, in Qom province, a ZCL-endemic area in central Iran, where...

Este artículo analiza la producción de materiales escritos en lengua qom o bilingües qom-castellano, realizados por indígenas dicho colectivo un contexto religioso inserción misional protestante, el noreste Argentina entre 1960-1970. Los textos responden a finalidades diversas: religiosas, productivas y educativas; corresponden, lo tanto, géneros tales como epístolas, reflexiones bíblicas carti...