Hoosein Darabi

• Bushehr University of Medical Sciences

Background and Aim: Zoonotic rodents (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae) and Phlebotominae sand flies are the major reservoir hosts and vectors of Leishmania major causing zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, respectively. This study was carried out to evaluate the epidemiological aspects of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Tangestan County, Southwest Ira...

In this data article, we aimed to evaluate and compare the biological diversity and relative abundance of zooplankton communities in 3 different areas along the northern part of the Persian Gulf in 3 different seasons. Data showed that Centropages spp and Fish larvae were the highest and lowest species among the groups identified in summer in Lavar...

Background The objective of this population-based, large sample size study was to investigate the socioeconomic inequality of overweight and obesity among the elderly in Iran. Methods Baseline data of 3000 persons aged ≥60 years who participated in the Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program was analyzed. Overweight and obesity were defined as a body...

The collected data in Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program which had detailed the data on participants' smoking status and habits, was analysed to investigate the association between smoking of both water pipes and cigarettes and hypertension in an elderly population. Three thousand elderly men and women who participated in the baseline assessment...

Introduction Musculoskeletal disorders and cognitive diseases are prevalent, and they are significant determinants of morbidity and mortality in older adults. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal and cognitive diseases and their risk factors and also to assess their associations during future follow-ups. Method...

The adipocytokines and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) are involved in insulin resistance, the cardiometabolic syndrome, and atherosclerosis. Therefore, investigating the relationship between circulating levels of the novel adipocytokines and IGF-1 is worthwhile. The correlation between IGF-1, visfatin, and omentin-1 has not been adequately in...

Some adipocytokines are cardioprotective or pro-inflammatory for thecardiovascular system. Chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumonia (C. pneumoniae) and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been also considered as novel risk factors for atherosclerosis. The main aim of the current population-based study is to investigate the potential link between...

Objectives: To explore the independent correlation between serum uric acid and low-grade inflammation (measured by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, hs-CRP) in postmenopausal women. Methods: A total of 378 healthy Iranian postmenopausal women were randomly selected in a population-based study. Circulating hs-CRP levels were measured by highly sp...

Background: Although the association between oxidized LDL particles and cardiovascular diseases has been shown in different studies, the role of oxidized LDL for cardiovascular diseases in menopause is very limited. The main aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between MDA-oxidised LDL, antibodies against oxidized LDL and is...

Background: Patients with β-thalassemia major (TM) develop iron overload through increased iron absorption and transfusional therapy and it's the most important complication of TM. Thalassemia is common in coastal regions and lands with low altitudes. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of high and low altitude on serum ferritin and t...

Objective: There is growing evidence that supports the existence of a link between lower levels of circulating omentin-1 and the pathogenesis of coronary atherosclerosis. However, no population-based study has been performed to elucidate the cardioprotective role of this beneficial adipocytokine. Methods: A total of 378 healthy, postmenopausal w...

Background and purpose: Adsorption is considered as one of the promising treatment methods for removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions. The aim of this study was to determine the efficiency of Padina sanctae crucis in removal of manganese (Mn) from aqueous solutions. Materials and methods: Biosorption was studied in a series of batch experim...

Purpose: The main objective of the Bushehr Elderly Health Programme, in its first phase, is to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and their association with major adverse cardiovascular events. Participants: Between March 2013 and October 2014, a total of 3000 men and women aged ≥60 years, residing in Bushehr, Iran, partic...

Serum adiponectin levels have been suggested to be predictors of type 2 diabetes mellitus in diverse populations. However, the relationship between circulating adiponectin levels and the risk of development of type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal women has not been investigated. A total of 382 healthy postmenopausal women who participated in a prospec...

The potential link between infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae or Helicobacter pylori and osteoporosis has not been investigated in population-based longitudinal studies. A total of 250 healthy postmenopausal women who participated in a prospective cohort study were evaluated for IgG antibodies directed against C. pneumoniae and H. p ylori, osteopr...

Background: Low circulating IGF-1 and high hs-CRP may be associated with cardiovascular diseases. Hence, it is an important question that is there any correlation between these important biomarkers? Since the correlation between IGF-1 and hs-CRP has not been adequately investigated, the main aim of this study was to evaluate the association between...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most important health problem in the city of Bushehr, southwestern Iran. The objective of the study was to determine some ecological aspects of sand flies in the city during 2010–2011. Sand flies were collected monthly from outdoors and indoors by sticky traps at four selected districts of the city. They were also dis...

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Background: Based on previous studies, tobacco smoking generally and water pipe smoking particularly, have high prevalence in Bushehr province. This study is a new analysis of the Persian Gulf healthy heart study with goal of determination of prevalence and pattern of cigarette and water pipe smoking in Bushehr province. Materials and methods: A to...

Background: The date palm cultivation has a long history in Bushehr province. Throughout the recent decade the dusts, in addition to direct harmful effects on humans, have adverse effects on health of the population living in this area. The infestation of pests in the southern province of Bushehr has groves. Due to the importance of dates in this a...

Background: Although the inverse correlation of adiponectin with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance has been suggested in various studies, but there is few studies about correlation between serum adiponectin level and metabolic syndrome in post menopause women. Materials and Methods: In an extension of a large epidemiological study, the Iranian...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) represents the most frequent vector borne parasitoses in Iran. The objective of this study was to determine the epidemiological features of CL including human infection and the reservoir host in the city of Bushehr, Bushehr Province, Iran during 2010-2011. Studies on human infection was carried out on 2962 school childr...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the most important parasitic disease in Iran. CL is distributed among more than half of 31 provinces of Iran. Studies on epidemiological aspects of the disease and Leishmania species identification among infected humans are necessary for providing a comprehensive prevention and control program thus; this descr...

Establishing and developing of huge energy project of southern Pars Company with regard to migration of non-indigenous human force from different parts of the world as labor and more specifically Afghan peoples provided the possibility of malaria transmission, and caused the occurrence of two malaria epidemics in 2002 and 2005. This study is a retr...

Every year about 300-500 million individuals catch malaria throughout the world and 2-3 million of them who are mostly children and pregnant women die. Most malaria cases in Iran are reporting from Sistan and Baluchistan, Kerman and Hormozgan provinces, but there is still the risk of roll back malaria and it's again incidence in eradicated areas, s...

Methoprene, an insect growth regulator, was evaluated under field conditions against the main malaria vectors in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The effect of 5, 10 and 20 kg ha(-1) concentration ofmethoprene granule formulation and 100 and 200 mL ha(-1) concentration of EC formulation was measured to determine any changes in Anophelini larval abunda...

Mixed infections caused by enteric pathogens such as bacteria, virus, protozoa and helminthes were reported in different literatures. This report also describes the co-infections caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa EL Tor with Shigella dysenteriae in a patient. A 36-year-old man was admitted in Fatemeh Zahra Hospital of Bushehr Iran with fever, vomi...

Water contamination due to insecticides, often generates dangerous results for consumers. Immoderate consumption of insecticides in neighboring farms contaminates rivers. Assessment of residue of phosphorus insecticides which are used in farms near rivers can play a key role in preventing probable poisonings and aquatic ecosystems polution. Methods...

A mega-controller architecture is introduced for reconfiguration of discrete event system controllers with dynamic observation sets. The mega-controller uses several reconfiguration strategies to revise the control policies based on the availability of the observation means. It is known that the mega-controller could have multiple choices of reconf...

Ladder logic diagram (LLD) as the interfacing programming language of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is utilized in modern discrete event control systems. However, LLD is hard to debug and maintain in practice. This is due to many factors such as non-structured nature of LLD, the LLD programmers' background, and the huge sizes of real world...

We define supervisory controllers for enforcing deadlines on transition firings in time Petri nets. Given a target net transition t_d, and a deadline λ, we generate a controller that under broad assumptions forces t_d to fire every λ time units. Our supervisory controller is based on the notion of transition latency. The latency...

We outline a supervisory control method for enforcing deadlines in real-time systems modeled as time Petri nets. Given a time Petri net NT, a net transition td, and a deadline d, we generate supervisory controllers that force td to fire at most d time units since the previous firing of td. Our method uses the unfolding of the ordinary (untimed) Pet...

Despite the efforts in scheduling and control of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) with resource constraints, the current pool of scheduling techniques faces two major drawbacks: modeling and complexity. Modeling is the task of converting the FMS data to a set of information, ready to be processed by a scheduling algorithm. Complexity has a dir...

We treat supply chain of business enterprises as a distributed system of collaborative processes, where the system dynamics is governed by the events that occur within each enterprise and/or across several enterprises. While each enterprise has its own middleware for handling business transactions, we argue that there is also need for a meta-middle...

We present a supervisory control architecture with control redundancy. We assume an adaptive architecture for the problem of switching from one control module to another when sensors used for observing events in the plant fail or become unavailable. It is assumed that there is an actual controller and a number of virtual controllers. The actual con...

The Ramadge-Wonham (RW) framework for designing a supervisory controller for a given plant and user specification, has been widely addressed by many researchers. The framework accepts a generator (or plant model), G, and a specification (or imposed constraint on the plant), H, and generates the supervisory controller, S. It assumes that plant is kn...

Presents a zero-one programming of transforming an ordinary Petri net into a colored Petri net. The transformation is based on the similarity measures embedded in the initial Petri net. The objective function is to maximize the compactness of the colored Petri net subject to the constraints which are defined on places and transitions of the initial...