Do you have a favorite scientific journal? Although I have several favorites which illuminate my life, I am particularly fond of Cat News, a quarterly newsletter edited by noted conservationist Peter Jackson of IUCN. Cat News publishes short essays about new developments relating to non-domestic wild cat species, from lynxes to tigers to lions and snow leopards. Felid observations, conservation...

abstract a previous study on agricultural drains in khuzestan province of iran has indicated that carbonate calcium is the main component of the deposited salts in drainage envelops. to investigate the process of precipitation of carbonate calcium under different conditions including chemical, bio-chemical, aerobic and an-aerobic, a through laboratory investigation on geotextile drain envelop w...

Similarity Indexing is very important for content-based retrieval on large multimedia databases, and the "tightness" of data set envelope is a factor that influences the performance of index. For equidistant envelope (bounding sphere), calculation of envelope is somewhat difficult because of the complexity of direct computation in high dimension space. In this paper we summarize the envelope us...

Nesprins (nuclear envelope spectrin repeat proteins), also known as SYNE (synaptic nuclear envelope protein), MYNE (myocyte nuclear envelope protein), ENAPTIN and NUANCE, are proteins that are primarily components of the nuclear envelope. The nuclear envelope is a continuous membrane system composed of two lipid bilayers: an inner and an outer nuclear membrane. Nesprins are components of both n...

background and aims: giardia lamblia infection is a common cause of food and water-borne diarrhea in non-sanitary communities. infections are common in children, particularly in child-care centers, backpackers, travelers, and homosexuals. zinc is necessary for the immune system functions. zinc deficiency is associated with acute diarrhea. copper is essential for the production of red blood cell...

background and objective: serum creatinine is the most used endogenous marker of glomerular filtration rate (gfr), but it also has multiple limitations. therefore, some surrogate gfr markers, such as beta trace protein, have been introduced for gfr estimation. the aim of our study was to estimate gfr by serum beta trace protein using three available equations and compare them to dtpa gfr as the...

abstract  background: pixe (particle induced x-ray emission) is a suitable method for the analysis of biological samples in which heavy trace elements are contained in light matrix elements. it is very important to know which factors or probably elements act as initial seed and lead to growing the sands. the goal of this study was to compare the relative values of fe/k, cu/k and zn/k for gallst...

background: in the present study, blood serum level of metals were determined in malarial pa­tients and compared with those in the normal subjects without complication using atomic absorp­tion spectrometer. methods: for the determination of these metals twelve intravenous blood samples each from re­ferred malarial patients and a group of normal subjects were collected and immediately centri­fug...

urban horticulture is of growing importance in developing and developed countries around the world; however, contamination of urban horticultural products can exceed the precautionary values, posing significant human health risks due to dietary exposure to high levels of the pollutants. in this study, samples of rhizosphere soil and corresponding vegetables have been collected from an urban gar...