Objective: An experiment was performed in Ardabil (2012) to investigate the effects of manure consumption in different amounts on reducing nitrogen fertilizer consumption in potato cv. Agria. Methods: This research was conducted in factorial design based on randomized completely blocks design in three replication  in which two manure factors in three levels (control, 30 and 60 tons/h) and nitro...

BACKGROUND Physical exercise is widely prescribed in rehabilitation programmes for low back pain (LBP). The LBP patient often asks whether this physical activity should be maintained and, in some cases, whether he/she should resume or take up a sport. PURPOSE To answer these two questions by performing a review of literature on the efficacy and safety of post-rehabilitation physical activitie...

BACKGROUND International guidelines stress the importance of accurately discriminating between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although characteristic pathological features have been described for both conditions, their discriminatory power has never been systematically assessed. METHODS Endobronchial biopsy (EBB) specimens from patients with a clear clinical diagnosi...

BACKGROUND Translating the findings from heart failure drug trials into clinical practice has been shown to take time. For the generation of a primary care guideline that takes preferences of general practitioners (GPs) and characteristics of their patients into account, it is necessary to identify the associations between patient and physician characteristics with the prescription of the recom...

The mechanism associated with improvement of soil nutritional status by oilseed rape crop, leading to better performance of rice crop, in rice-oilseed rape cropping systems is little known. The present study was aimed to test the hypothesis that earthworm casts produced during oilseed rape-growing season have positive effects on grain yield and fertilizer nitrogen (N) utilization in the subsequ...

UNLABELLED Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) may have an intrinsic muscle spasm component. AIM Since botulinum toxin has been successfully used to reduce hypertonicity in several neurological disorders, we analyzed the efficacy of botulinum toxin A or B in reducing pain in MPS. METHODS We performed a systematic review through an electronic search in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library Plus. ...

Growing fruit trees on the slopes of rolling hills in South China was causing serious environmental problems because of heavy application of chemical fertilizers and soil erosion. Suitable sources of fertilizers and proper rates of applications were of key importance to both crop yields and environmental protection. In this article, the impact of four fertilizers, i.e., inorganic compound ferti...