introduction the study area is located 12km away from the north east of sarbisheh at the eastern border of the lut block (karimpour et al., 2011; richards et al., 2012). the magmatic activity in the lut blockhas begun in the middle jurassic (165-162 ma) and reached its peak in the tertiary age (jung et al., 1983; karimpour et al., 2011). volcanic and subvolcanic rocks in the tertiary age cover ...

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Doppler studies on haemodynamics of the cardiovascular system and intra-abdominal organ perfusion in non-pregnant individuals are usually performed by cardiologists and radiologists. Specialists in Maternal-Fetal Medicine are also familiar with cardiovascular Doppler sonography, however, they mostly focus on the fetal (Malcus, 2004) or uteroplacental circulation (Abramowicz and Sheiner, 2008; P...

The excess of electrons/positrons observed by the Pamela and ATIC experiments gives rise to a noticeable amount of synchrotron and Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) radiation when the ee interact with the Galactic Magnetic Field, and the InterStellar Radiation Field (ISRF). In particular, the ICS signal produced within the WIMP annihilation interpretation of the Pamela/ATIC excess shows already ...

Size-selective harvesting is one of the most widespread anthropogenic impacts on marine species. The loss of larger (older) individuals due to such harvesting has numerous cascading effects on the biology of affected species and populations, including changes in life history, demography, reproductive output, and even ecological interactions (Fenberg & Roy 2008). Size-selective harvesting has be...

Cancer immunotherapies have shown considerable promise in pre-clinical studies, but the potency of these interventions has often proved disappointing in vivo. This is in part due to tumor infiltration by myeloid cells, which are usually associated with less favorable clinical outcomes. In the past decade, several distinct subsets of tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells have been described (Movahedi...

aeroponic is a new technology for potato minituber production. in order to recognition of the suitable nutrient solution and potato variety for minituber production in aeroponics in comparison with classic hydroponics, a factorial experiment was carried out with three factors of culture systems (aeroponics and hydroponics), nutrient solutions (chang et al., 2008; apcoab and commercial nutrient ...

This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilisticvoting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign...

*corresponding author Abstract piRNAs and their biogenesis pathways are well-conserved in Metazoans (Grimson et al. 2008). piRNAs have been implicated in transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational regulation (Grivna et al. 2006; Lin & Yin 2008; Brennecke et al. 2008; Brennecke et al. 2007; Aravin et al. 2007). We analyze the signatures of a critical process in the primary and seco...

This third issue of Evolutionary Applications features a wide range of topics, including evolutionary causes of invasiveness (Lee and Gelembiuk 2008), human sexual dimorphism (Crespi 2008), estimation of effective population size (Nomura 2008), genetic connectivity and habitat restoration (Raeymaekers et al. 2008), maize adaptation (Mercer et al. 2008), fitness consequences of wild-farm salmon ...