pathogens can be transmitted to the humans through the consumption of contaminated local dairy products such as cheese and, thus, cause pathogenic diseases. shiga toxin produced by escherichia coli can cause mild watery diarrhea as well as serious complications such as hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome and may even lead to death. the present study was conducted to investigate t...

We describe the current status of CATS, a publicly accessible database (web-server http://cats.sao.ru) allowing one to search in hundreds of catalogs of astronomical objects discovered all along the electromagnetic spectrum. Our emphasis is mainly laid on catalogs of radio continuum sources observed from 30 to 15000 MHz, secondly on catalogs of objects such as raIn 2004 CATS comprised a total o...

1.1 The question how much income inequality is acceptable All modern nations engage in active income redistribution and have a system that taxes the wealthy to a greater extent than the poor. Redistributive policies are accompanied by a continuous discussion on the question of how much income inequality is justified (e.g. Pen and Tinbergen, 1977; Sen, 1997). This discussion has an important ide...

Intercropping is a sustainable practice to achieve higher production with the aim to limit external inputs. A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran, during 2016 growing seasons with ten treatments to evaluate the yield, analyze the competition and insect’s assemblages in sunflower (as main plant)/soybean (as com...

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Associated Professor of Emergency Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. Associated Professor of Emergency Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 3. Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicin...

the effects of planting date and single irrigation (si) allocation scenarios on increasing and stability of yield were investigated to determine the total water productivity and economical water productivity (wpe), for rainfed wheat at dryland agricultural research institute in maragheh, iran, during 2000-2004. the treatments included three sowing dates (early, normal and late), four allocation...

1Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 2Faculty of Veterinary Science, Shahrekord Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran 3Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5Departmen...

turmeric (curcuma longa l.) is extensively used as a spice, food preservative and colouring material. it has been used in traditional medicine for various diseases. curcumin, the main yellow bioactive component of turmeric has been shown to have a wide spectrum of biological actions. heretofore, it has been reported that natural colored extracts isolated from turmeric rhizomes with many methods...