BACKGROUND Ticks are hematophagous arthropod belonging to the Class of Arachnids. Ticks are also one of the major vectors of pathogens to animal and human. This study was conducted to determine tick infestation rate of sheep in Abdanan during 2007-2008. METHODS Sampling was performed seasonally in 19 villages during spring 2007 until winter 2008. A total of 1095 sheep were selected and tested...

BACKGROUND Suicide has become an increasingly widespread form of morbidity in the developing countries. There has been an increasing trend in morbidity and mortality due to suicide in Iran over the past few decades. This study surveyed attempts and completed suicide over a 5-year period. METHODS Through a cross-sectional study, overall identified suicides by systematic registration suicide da...

S Navidpour , S. , Kovar í k , F. , Fet , V. , and Soleglad , M. E. ( 2008 ) . Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part III. Ilam Province . Euscorpius 69 , 1 – 29 . Polis , G. A. (ed.) ( 1990 ) . “ The Biology of Scorpions . ” Stanford University Press , Stanford, CA . Prendini , L. ( 2000 ) . Phylogeny and classifi cation of the superfamily Scorpionoidea Latreille 1802 (Chelicerata, Sc...

this report presents a new record of iranolacerta brandtii brandtii from 30 km south of tekab city, west azarbaijan province and 130 km south of the previously known distribution range of the subspecies; a new record of iranolacerta zagrosica in kaljonun mountain peak, lorestan province, about 70 km northwest of the type locality; a new record of apathya cappadocica urmiana in the manesht prote...

background & aim:  investigation use of medical plants and industrial utilization of phytomedicines is necessary in veterinary medicine. field investigation of use of medical plants in treatment of diseases of sheep and goat was the aim of present study. martial & methods: this study was done in southern area of ilam province at 2008. at first, question sheet was designed for 36 diseas...

in this study, the comparative advantage of main agricultural products and its relation to cropping pattern was studied in ilam province. for data analyzing the comparative advantage and government policies effects indices, policy analysis matrix (pam) were used. the obtained results for the comparative advantage indices of domestic resource cost (drc), social cost benefit (scb) and net social ...

The electric quadrupole, hexadecapole moments, energy (kJmol -1) for some armchair polyhex carbon nanotubes TUVC6[2p,q] are performed by Beck-Lee-Yang-Parr [B3LYP] on 3-21G basis set using the standard procedure indices GAUSSIAN 98, then the Padmakar-Ivan (PI) index of TUVC6[2p,q] nanotubes in the terms of their circumference (2p) and lengh (q) is calculated and the relationships between the Pa...

We assessed depression, anxiety and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in 137 cases of landmine injury in Ilam province, using the Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (HADS) and the Short Form Health Survey (SF36) questionnaires. We also compared their scores with an uninjured control group (n = 360). Most of the injured were male (93.4%) and illiterate (54.7%) with some irreversible sequel...