background: nuts are one of the main consumed snacks worldwide and also have an important role among iranian's food habits. natural contamination of nuts with aflatoxin is unavoidable and causes a special challenge for nuts safety and quality. objectives: the purpose of this research was to study the aflatoxin contamination in commercially-available nuts (pistachio, walnut and peanut) in the ma...

b ackground : tuberculosis is a crucial health problem. establishing a rapid, reliable and still inexpensive diagnostic method for tuberculosis seems to be substantial in developing countries where tb has very high incidence rate . methods:   an indirect  enzyme-linked  immunosorbent  assay (elisa )   was established to detect serum antibodies against mycobacterium  tuberculosis. three kinds of...

conclusions afm1 contamination of milk is not a concern in this city. however, dairy cattle feed samples of various livestocks must be regularly checked for aflatoxin and the storage conditions of feeds should be strictly controlled. results afm1 was detected in all milk samples. the mean concentration of afm1 was 11.61 ± 0.72 ng/l with a range of 6.3-23.3 ng/l. none of the samples had levels e...

lidocaine (lc) is a local anesthetic agent. the aim of this study was to prolong the anesthetic effect of this drug in the oral cavity in the treatment of oral mucositis. films of lc were prepared with three different molecular weights (mw) of chitosan in three different concentrations (1-3%) and were then cross-linked by solvent casting evaporation method with tripolyphosphate penta sodium sal...

materials and methods in this descriptive study, 2988 stool samples of patients with acute gastroenteritis were collected from children’s hospitals of 5 main cities of iran. the samples were sent in frozen condition to pediatric infection research center in tehran and stored at -70°c. elisa test was performed for detection of rotavirus antigens. the mean age of study population was 1 to 5 years...

As the uptake of the Semantic Web vision has been relatively slow, a strategy based on pragmatic steps is being deployed in order to setup enablers and to stimulate acceptance. "Linked Open Data" refers to one of these early steps, benefiting from an available technological space (RDF, HTTP). The paper proposes "Linked Open Models" as a possible additional step, whose aim is to enable users to ...

The idea of Linked Data is to aggregate, harmonize, integrate, enrich, and publish data for re-use on the Web in a cost-efficient way using Semantic Web technologies. We concern two major hindrances for re-using Linked Data: It is often difficult for a re-user to 1) understand the characteristics of the dataset and 2) evaluate the quality the data for the intended purpose. This paper introduces...