following the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of former soviet :union:republics, previous economic relations among centralasianrepublics changed and were replaced with the market economy. tensions have emerged between upstream and downstream countries located along transboundary rivers with downstream countries even resorting to threat of military action against possible restric...

Objective: Metabolic syndrome changes in different ethnic and age group. Trace elements are associated with metabolic syndrome. The present study was aimed to assess the serum levels of iron, zinc, and copper in Gorgan and their association with the metabolic syndrome components. Methods: The present study was carried out in the Metabolic Disorders Research Center of Gorgan Faculty of Medicine....

This paper makes a case for the use of design in business-to-business marketing. Although design most clearly is a competitive asset in consumer marketing, the vertical connections force upstream use of design. This development coincides and complements corporate and product branding, where design is seen as a way to verify and sustain the claims given in branding. Finally, the paper contains s...

the effect of anxiety management skills on anxiety in adolescent     jalaliaria k [1] , ashrafrezai n [2] , asayesh h [3] *, bathaei sa [4] , shariati a5, badeleh mt6     received: 15 mar , 2013 accepted: 5 may , 2013    abstract  background & aims : adolescence is a critical period in life with lots of change which can play an important role in the country's future. at this period there i...

Decolourization of wastewater from a textile plant by a marine Aspergillus niger was studied. The fungus was previously isolated from Gorgan Bay in the Caspian Sea. The kinetics of decolourization was studied by varying energy sources. The best decolourization was achieved when sucrose was used as source of carbon and energy. NH4+ ion was demonstrated to be the best nitrogen source. Color reduc...

Kid kidney cells form less than 2 months of age were grown, 80% confluent monolayers were obtained after 10-12 days. Live attenuated goat pox virus vaccine (Gorgan 55, Iranian) was used to infect the confluent monolayers. Eighty percent cytopethic effect (CPE) was obtained on day 5 of virus inoculation. TCID50 calculated for the pool virus was 10 / ml. Vaccine was found free from any bacterial ...