Snake bite is an important and serious global health issue. Till date anti snake venom serum is the only therapeutic remedy available for treating the snake bite victims. Infusion of ASV may lead to adverse reactions ranging from pruritus, urticaria to potentially fatal anaphylaxis. The development of ASV is also a costly and time consuming process requiring ideal storage conditions. Though Ant...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed cou...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interferon gamma (IFN-'y) are pleuripotent cytokines and have multiple functions during the inflammatory response. Using a murine model of autoimmune myocarditis, we studied the role of TNF and IFN-y in myocardial inflammation. Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against TNF-cx/f and IFN-ywere administered to myosin-immunized A/J mice to assess the effect on the s...

Tyrosine (Tyr) is an essential amino acid in phenylketonuria (PKU) because of the limited hydroxylation of phenylalanine (Phe) to Tyr. The recommended intakes for Tyr in PKU are at least five times the recommended phenylalanine intakes. This suggests that Phe and Tyr contribute approximately 20 and 80%, respectively, of the aromatic amino acid (AAA) requirement (REQ). In animals and normal huma...

generally speaking, lexical items that enter our minds through reading a text commonly leave us with pictures, sounds, echoes, and feelings in the mind. while the ability to produce images in the mind in the process of reading appears to be vital for greater comprehension and recall of texts, research has indicated that many poor readers seemingly do not visualize as they read. on the contrary,...

this study has done to show the relation between metacognitive strategies with aggression and coping styles in shiraz high school students. methods: in this study, 360 individuals of shiraz high school students between the ages 17-19 (240 females, 120 males) in 88-89 school year, were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling. data collection was done with metacognition questionnaire-30 (mcq-30) b...

purpose: this study explores the use of and the role of learning strategies in the educational success of iranian undergraduate medical students using an inventory of learning and study strategies. material & method: 412 students in the first to third year of study were selected randomly. a questionnaire based on the lassi questionnaire (developed by weinstein et al which included ten areas of ...

the aim of this study was to describe and find out motivational english language learning strategies through computers among iranian efl learners and find out how learners’ motivations change towards english language learning through computers.the mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) was employed in this study. a total of 84 (out of 130) female freshman university learners from ...