background: given the importance of birth weight and the effects of anthropometric indices and socioeconomic status on it, this study was conducted to assess birth weight and its related factors among infants born in the hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour university. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 269 newly born babies and their mothers in hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour un...

the main aim of this project was the assessment, for the first time, anthropometrically, the nutritional status in school girls' population aging from 7 to 10 years in ahwaz city and ultimately compare their growth rate with other findings obtained from different part of iran and also with the proposed standards of nchs in this respect. this study was conducted on 1200 apparently healthy school...

aerobic digestion was useful for mixed sludge of west ahwaz sewage treatment plant. results showed that after 12 days 38% of tvs reduced. this meets the environmental standards. after 19 days detention time in the bioreactor, cod, vss, tvs, tss, ts, were 40 ,56, 54.5 ,50.4 ,44.7 percent respectively. kd coefficient was,0.173day-1. aim of this bench scale study is determination of aerobic digest...

introduction: otosclerosis one of the most common causes of conductive hearing loss is more common in females and in their middle ages. it is usually a bilateral and progressive disease. surgical operation is suggested as the exclusive management of otosclerosis. this study aims to evaluate the hearing results after stapedectomy in otosclerotic patients in ahwaz. materials and methods:  in this...

Behcet’s disease is a multisystem disease characterized clinically by oral aphthae and occasionally by genital aphthae, cutaneous lesions such as pustular vasculitis, sweet syndrome-like, pyoderma gangrenosum-like and erythema nodosum-like lesions and variably present systemic features such as synovitis, anterior and posterior uveitis, meningoencephalitis and large vessel smaller vessel vascula...

In arid and semi-arid regions, soil surface warming is a considerable phenomenon causing a high thermal gradient which makes water flow intensely. The degree of soil temperature is effective on crop production, plant growth and soil microorganisms. In recent years, the ascending trend of temperature has been substantially noticed by researchers in the issues of pointwise climate change and at w...