in order to study the effects of ph and the ratio of nitrate to ammonium in nutrient solution, on the growth characteristics and on the yield of spinach (spinacia oleracea l.), a factorial experiment was conducted consisting of two factors including: nutrient solution ph in three levels (4.5, 6.5 and 8) and nitrate to ammonium ratio of nutrient solution in five levels (100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:7...

Visual discrimination tasks are increasingly used to explore the neurobiology of vision in rodents, but it remains unclear how the animals solve these tasks: Do they process shapes holistically, or by using low-level features such as luminance and angle acuity? In the present study we found that when discriminating triangles from squares, rats did not use shape but instead relied on local lumin...

This review introduces some commonly used methods for assessing the performance of a diagnostic test. The sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratio of a test are discussed. The uses of the receiver operating characteristic curve and the area under the curve are explained.

greenhouse structure has an important role in success of greenhouse production. this research was conducted to study problems related to vegetable greenhouse structure in khuzestan province for on year(2011-2012). for this purpose, 21 greenhouses were selected by simple randomized samplang and questionnaires were completed. the results revealed that the major problems in greenhouses vegetable p...

Many countries, including China, have increased new areas of mangrove plantations to reverse the decline in ecosystem functions. However, this has led intrusion mangroves into many tidal flat areas, which are important habitats for shorebirds. A reduction available will reduce diversity shorebirds, therefore bringing conservation conflict with shorebird conservation. In fact, a certain area is ...

in order to investigate the effects of plant growth promoting bacteria on growth characteristic of wheat, an experiment was conducted at the research greenhouse, faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, in year 2009. a completely randomized design based on factorial arrangement (3×6) with three replications was used. the first factor consisted of three cultivars of wheat (c...

BACKGROUND There are several different frailty measures available for identifying the frail elderly. However, their predictive performance in an Australian population has not been examined. OBJECTIVE To examine the predictive performance of four internationally validated frailty measures in an older Australian population. METHODS A retrospective study in the Australian Longitudinal Study of...