Prevalence and correlates of PTSD among high school students after the earthquake disaster in the City of Bam, Iran.
INTRODUCTION Earthquake and its consequences present a major public health problem. Like other natural disasters, often without warning, they strike quickly, and are uncontrollable, affecting large population and leaving injury, death, and destruction subsequently. After earth quick, with the loss of loved ones and livelihood, survivors are...

Association between paternal age at birth time and the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.
INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a chronic devastating behavioural psychiatric disease whose history turn back to medical science ancientness. Less than 1% of world population attacked by schizophrenia. that have spread in every geographic region. Its prevalence and incidence rate is similar around the world but there is difference...

Biological control of rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) by use of Streptomyces sindeneusis isolate 263 in greenhouse.
INTRODUCTION Streptomyces are one of the most attractive sources of biologically active substances such as vitamins, alkaloids, plant growth factors, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors (1-3). Soil Streptomycetes are of the major contributors to the biological buffering of soils and have roles in decomposition of organic matter conductive...

A Computational optimized extended model for mineral potential mapping based on WofE method.
INTRODUCTION A Geographical Information System (GIS) is a computer based system which integrates the data input; data storage and management, data manipulation and analysis and data output for both spatial and attribute data to support decision-making activities Malczewski (5). After over 40 years of development, GIS have...

Recognition of factors affecting students trust in virtual universities using Delphi Method.
INTRODUCTION The emergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their use in training of people has resulted in formation of virtual universities. Most countries with more or less similar goals have acted to establish such universities. Islamic republic of Iran too, as a developing country in...

Tehran Backs Russia In Caucasus; US Is Closer To Iran Blockade.
Visiting Russia, Iran's Foreign Minister Manushehr Mottaki on Sept. 13 backed Moscow's moves on Georgia and threats to other peripheral states which used to be part of the former Soviet Union (FSU). He said the US missile shield planned to be installed in East Europe was part of an...

ARAB EUROPEAN RELATIONS - Sept 4 - Sarkozy Warns Iran It Risks Attack By Israel.
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy, warns Iran that it is taking a big risk by seeking to obtain a military nuclear capability, saying that one day it could find Israel had decided to attack. In one of the most explicit warnings to Tehran by a western leader, Sarkozy said:...

Iran Behind Maliki's Hardening.
Sunni Arab and Kurdish MPs complain that Maliki has become more sectarian and more of a puppet of Iran than his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Ja'fari. Maliki and Ja'fari now head rival factions of the Shi'ite al-Da'wa al-Islamiya movement, and both are under the influence of Iran's theocracy. Maliki's government is...

Bomb, bomb Iran?
BOMB, BOMB IRAN? In 2005 Eric Yoffie was the first rabbi ever to address the student body at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Over lunch with Falwell the subject of Iran came up. Falwell suggested to Yoffie that President Bush was too constrained politically to take out Iran's nuclear weapons...

Obama has best grasp of Iran's threat.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Victor Tomseth For The Register-Guard In January 2006, Sen. John McCain perhaps best summarized his approach to the Iranian nuclear conundrum: "There's only one thing worse than the United States exercising the military option - that is a nuclear-armed Iran. The military option...