the present study investigates the effects of water temperature on digestive enzymes activity and food transit time in caspian kutum ( rutilus kutum ) larvae. caspian kutum larvae (532 ± 0.05 and 543 ± 0.02 mg) were divided into two groups with three replicates and reared at different water temperature i.e. 25.6 ± 0.4°c (t 1 ) and 18.4 ± 0.1°c (t 2 ). at the end of the experiment, sampling of i...

background feeding intolerance is one of the leading causes of weight loss in preterm infants. the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of abdominal massage on feeding tolerance in preterm infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units in isfahan, iran. materials and methods: in this randomized controlled clinical trial, 64 infants who had the inclusion criteria, were selected and...

the effect of starvation and re-feeding was investigated on growth, hematology and biochemical parameters in juvenile persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus). three hundred and seventyfive fish (108±0.63 g) were divided into five feeding groups. the control group (c) was fed to satiation three times a day during the experiment. the four groups were starved for 1 (w1), 2 (w2), 3 (w3), and 4 (w4) w...

this study was conducted to evaluate the age-specific functional response of psyllaephagus zdeneki noyes & fallahzadeh (hymenoptera: encyrtidae) at different nymph densities of olive psyllid, euphyllura pakistanica loginova (hemiptera: psyllidae). due to parasitoid behaviour of feeding and parasitizing the host, both traits were separately explored on a daily functional response. results of...

biological removal of lead was observed in this study during treatment of synthetic solutions of this heavy metal by a sample of waste activated sludge (was) having mlss concentration of 10000 mg/l. the objective was determining the capability of was in removal of lead in three different conditions of treatment: without any aeration and feeding, by simultaneous aeration and feeding and by aerat...

the effect feeding olive-pulp silage (ops) for 120 days on several blood attributes was studied using 16 rams allotted to two diets consisting of 70% corn silage or 70% ops. olive-pulp silage feeding resulted in lower serum total protein, alanine aminotransferase, calcium and phosphorus levels and higher glucose concentration compared to the corn silage diet. body weight and other blood attribu...

results it was found that mothers of the case group had a greater susceptibility to depression than those of the control group, that is, breastfeeding status was directly associated with susceptibility to depression (p = 0.001, or = 5.48). furthermore, there was a significant association between basic characteristics such as maternal occupational status (p = 0.04) or their educations (p = 0.006...

background: today, early diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal (gi) tract malignancies and their surgical resection is becoming more feasible. one of the important side effects in upper gi tract malignancies is malnutrition which has direct relationship with postoperative complications. nonetheless, there is no easy regimen of nutrition for these patients especially for the first week after opera...