The type section of the Middle and Upper Jurassic Chaman Bid Formation is in the western Koppeh Dagh Basin (Northeast Iran). It is unusually thick and contains a rather rich ammonite fauna, ranging from Bathonian to Tithonian. The ammonites described here come from a 134-m-thick interval in the upper part of member (D) in the middle part of the formation, consisting of an alternation of grey li...

We use 2004–2011 Envisat synthetic aperture radar imagery and InSAR time series methods to estimate the contemporary rates of strain accumulation in the Chaman Fault system in Pakistan and Afghanistan.At29Nwefind long-termslip ratesof16 ± 2.3mm/yr for theGhazabandFault andof8 ± 3.1mm/yr for the Chaman Fault. This makes the Ghazaband Fault one of themost hazardous faults of the plate boundary zo...

Investigation of sediment control factors in river channels a catchment can play very important role the sustainable management that catchment. For this purpose, Ardak was selected, on which reservoir dam constructed for drinking and agricultural purposes large city Mashhad northeastern Iran. Then 57 samples were collected from surface to depth 30 cm along four rivers: A (14), B (23), C (13), D...

1 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Balochistan earthquake Chaman fault Makran megathrust earthquake source model image geodesy We analyse the Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake of 09/24/2013 based on ground surface deformation measured from sub-pixel correlation of Landsat-8 images, combined with back-projection and finite source modeling of teleseismic waveforms. The earthquake nucle...

Reza Chaman, Pooneh Zolfaghari1, Mohammad-Bagher Sohrabi2, Mahshid Gholami Taramsari3, Ahmad Khosravi4 Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, 1Deputy of Public Health, 2Imam Hossein Hospital, 3School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, 4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sc...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis or ‘‘Kal Dana’’ (‘‘the year-long sore’’), as it is known locally, not only leaves a disfiguring scar on your face, but permanently changes your perception of your own self (Figure 1). ‘‘This is not me,’’ said the woman from Chaman, as she explained her encounter with the disease and the stigmatization associated with it. This 28-year-old woman is a resident of Chaman, a ...

Rajesh Gandhi, PhD, is a senior research scientist in Ranbaxy Research Laboratories (Gurgaon, India), Yasvanth Ashokraj is a doctoral student, Chaman Lal Kaul, PhD, is the director of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), and Ramesh Panchagnula, PhD, is a professor and head of the Department of Pharmaceutics, NIPER, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar (Punjab) 160062 Indi...

The gram-negative, zoonotic pathogen Bartonella henselae (Bhe) translocates seven distinct Bartonella effector proteins (Beps) via the VirB/VirD4 type IV secretion system (T4SS) into human cells, thereby interfering with host cell signaling [1], [2]. In particular, the effector protein BepG alone or the combination of effector proteins BepC and BepF trigger massive F-actin rearrangements that l...