OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to analyse the evolution of the Spanish population's global and regional adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) since 1987. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was conducted analysing food consumption from the Spanish Household Consumption Surveys administered by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. SETTING The Mediterranean Ad...

Mediterranean temporary ponds (MTPs) comprise an endangered habitat with several endemic species that can be found in many countries, mainly in the Mediterranean region but are disappearing at a high rate. For designing optimal conservation and management strategies for the particular ecosystems, appropriate characterization and classification of these ponds is necessary based on the different ...

Polypore fungi are an important group of wood-inhabiting basidiomycetes that have significant roles in biomass recycling in forests and woodland ecosystems. Figures on the polypore diversity in Iran have been partly made available through few checklists, but there have been no comparative studies on the pattern of geographic distribution of the species. The prevalence of the Mediterranean biocl...

Familial Mediterranean fever, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a member of the periodic fever syndromes, and considered to be the most common cause of recurrent febrile episodes in children. It is important to understand the disorder as familial Mediterranean fever falls on a spectrum of various presentations; the recurrent episodes of familial Mediterranean fever may be so severe that the q...

C. King,1,* B. Barbiellini,2 D. Moser,1,2 and V. Renugopalakrishnan3,4 1Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA 2Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA 3Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston,...

This study aimed to investigate some morphological features and heavy metal accumulation in muscle tissue of Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758) the spring autumn seasons 2018 Yumurtalık Coastline İskenderun Bay located northeastern Mediterranean Sea. To this end, shell length (SL), total weight (TW), height (SH), inflation (SI), (SW), roundness index (RI), cup (CI) length-weight relationship...

RSVP IconMessenger: icon-based brain-interfaced alternative and augmentative communication Asieh Ahani, Karl Wiegand, Umut Orhan, Murat Akcakaya, Mohammad Moghadamfalahi, Hooman Nezamfar, Rupal Patel & Deniz Erdogmus a Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA b Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA c Department of Speech Language ...

familialmediterranean fever (fmf) is a hereditary syndrome characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis. liver involvement in fmf has been reported in association with amyloidosis or rarely with vasculitis.in this report, a 32 year-old man with recurrent attacks of fever, abdominal pain and arthralgia is described who had moderate increase in liver transaminases only during disease...