purpose: to determine the musculoskeletal complaints associated with using computer and its   ergonomic risks for office workers of a medical sciences university in tehran.   materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a background questionnaire was used   to determine individuals and computer use habits’ characteristics. a total number of 164 office   workers of aja university of med...

Azerbaijan is the largest country in Caucasus. The Republic of one richest countries post-
 Soviet area terms natural resources, which spans 9 out 11 existing climatic zones. This circumstance requires a special
 approach to dealing issues agriculture. has an old history growing many Mediterranean subtropical and
 nut-fruit crops, such as Juglans, Corylus, Castanea, Amygdalus, Pi...

Advances in horticulture plant biotechnologies provide new opportunities for researchers to study the field of vegetative propagation and genetic engineering. Developments of clonal propagation methods, especially somatic embryogenesis (SE), have numerous potential applications. This paper reviewed progress of research on SE in horticultural plants in last decade; analyzed plant regeneration ha...

The increasing cost of energy and the worldwide desire to reduce CO2 emissions has raised concern about the energy efficiency of information and communication technology. Whilst research has focused on data centres recently, this paper identifies office environments as significant consumers of energy. Office environments offer a great potential of energy savings, given that office hosts often r...

In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households – resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization – has benefitted the smallholder farm sector through investment linkages. We use data from a household survey i...