The effects of a forest road on Castanopsis carlesii (Hemsley) Hayata (Fagales: Fagaceae) seedlings and their leaf herbivory were investigated in a subtropical forest at Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. A total of 1124 seedlings, 33949 leaves, 468 leaf mines, and 205 leaf galls were found. Generally, individual numbers, tree heights, and leaf numbers of C. carlesii seedlings...

Most of the previous studies on functional traits focus exclusively on either seedlings or trees. Little knowledge exists on the relationships between community level functional traits of trees and seedlings during succession. Here, we examine variations of the community-level functional traits for trees and seedlings and their correlations along a secondary successional and environmental gradi...

The experiment was conducted at the Agronomy field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during August, 2008 to January 2009 to find out the optimum plant spacing and number of seedling per hill in relation to tillering and dry matter accumulation of transplanted rice plant. The experiment was carried out with three plant spacings (S =15 cm × 20 cm, S = 20 cm × 20 cm and S...

The activity of guanylyl cyclase (GC) responsible for cGMP synthesis was found to be predominantly located in a fraction of plasma membranes in cells of Avena sativa seedlings. The GC activity was shown to depend on light conditions of plant cultivation and seedlings age. The reversible regulation of the GC activity in etiolated seedlings by red/far red light was found. This suggests that photo...

how to cite this article: nejad biglari h, rezayi a, nejad biglari h, alizadeh m, ahmadabadi f. relationship between migraine and abnormal eeg findings in children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 21-24. objective migraine is a disabling illness that causes absence from school andaffects the quality of life. it has been stated that headache may representan epileptic event. eeg abnormality is a ...

background: abnormal uterine bleeding is a common presentation of uterine abnormalities among premenopausal and postmenopausal women. objective: to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of saline contrast sonohysterography and hysteroscopy for detecting the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding. materials and methods: a total of 65 women with abnormal uterine bleeding were enrolled in this ...

background: it is noted that oral contraceptive pills increase the risk of abnormal pap smear but results have been inconsistent across the populations. objective: this study aimed to evaluate the association between oral contraceptive pill (ocp) consumption and abnormal pap smear in women who referred to shahid sadoughi and madar hospitals in yazd. materials and methods: a cross sectional desc...

objectives: massage therapy is one of the most widely used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for children. this study was conducted to determine the effect of wedish massage on abnormal reflexes in children with spastic cerebral palsy (cp). methods: this study was a single blind clinical trial conducted on forty children with spastic cp who were recruited from clinics of the univ...