selenium is an essential trace mineral and has a profound impact on immune function, health and productive performance. an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary selenium in different levels on performance and humoral immunity in broiler chicks. male broiler chicks (arbor acres, 1-d old, n= 225) were randomly assigned to 3 treatment groups of 5 replicates each including 15 ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the hemagglutination properties of caprine herpesvirus-1(cphv-1) and their application for cphv-1 antigen detection and evaluation of the dynamics of postinfectious/vaccine antibody production. cphv-1 hemagglutination activity was proved only with mouseerythrocytes, pbs and saline solutions at 4°c and 22°c. in vaccinated animals, goats and bucks withresp...

to study the response of pinto-bean yield and yield components in intercropping with maize and naked-pumpkin under weed competition, two similar experiments were conducted in rasht and roudsar separately each in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications on factorial arrangements experiment in 2013. the treatments of first factor consisted of  pinto bean (100 and 75%) sole cropping,...

global warming and climate change have drawn special attention to soil and its potential for stable carbon sequestration. soils are the largest stores of carbon in terrestrial carbon cycle and contain about three times more carbon than vegetation cover and two times more than that of atmosphere. studying the effects of grazing on soil carbon storage is important because of the major role soil o...

cold stress is considered as a restricting factor in plant production. recently, many different compounds were applied to minimize the harmful effects of stress. in this study, the effects of foliar application of salicylic acid was studied on some biochemical properties of two different cold resistant canola cultivars. salicylic acid was sprayed at four concentrations (0, 100, 200 and 400 µm) ...

introduction prediction of thunderstorm is one of the most difficult issues in weather forecasting. deep convective clouds develop at small spatial and temporal dimensions about 1-10 km and 1-12 h. various thermodynamic parameters have been discovered over the past 40 years, according to data obtained by radiosounds. the capability of these indices in forecasting instability varies over time an...

background: the up-regulation of galectin-3, galectin-9, and galectin-15 expression in the luminal and glandular epithelium was reported in preparation of the endometrium for embryo implantation at the midlutheal phase. however, no data was available regarding the expression and the distribution pattern of galectin-8 in the human endometrium during a regular menstrual cycle. objective: the curr...

in order to achieve a sustainable management and development of natural resources, a set of technical, eco-social, environmental and ecological criteria must be considered in the planning process. an appropriate model is therefore needed to address all the criteria mentioned above, in the decision making process and finally provide a reliable result. in the last few years, analytical hierarchic...

nowadays, credit risk is recognized as one of the most important bankruptcy factors of banks and financial institutions. in order to manage and control this risk, design of credit rating models is undeniable necessity. credit rating is used to identify the probability of credit default and on the other side classify the customers into two groups: good and bad accounts. until now, various statis...

two-year experiments was conducted to find the effect of value and times of supplementary irrigation on water requirement and yield production of three new wheat cultivar namely (‘w33g’, ‘cross alborz’ and ‘bahar’) in three replicate randomized complete block factorial experiments since 2009-11. experiments were performed at the campus of agriculture and natural resources of razi university lys...