Obesity is becoming increasingly common and recognized as a major public health problem worldwide. It is associated with multiple chronic health conditions including heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hyperinsulinemia, and cancer. The present investigation aims to determine i) the effect of using a mixture of natural herbs (Mallow, Senna and Sage) on weight loss in overweigh...

Changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes, proline, and total soluble carbohydrates (TSC) were evaluated in tomato (Solanum lycopercicum cv. Superchief) plants in response to salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) and inoculation with CMV (Cucumber mosaic virus) on days 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 15 after virus inoculation (dpi). Results showed that proline content increased in all treatmen...

Two important components of a visual recognition system are representation and model. Both involves the selection and learning of the features that are indicative for recognition and discarding those features that are uninformative. This thesis, in its general form, proposes different techniques within the frameworks of two learning systems for representation and modeling. Namely, latent suppor...

Dear Editor, Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a monophasic acute nonvasculitic inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system that is characterized by diffuse neurologic signs and symptoms coupled with evidence of multifocal demyelination lesions on neuroimaging.1 The onset of ADEM usually follows a viral infection or immunization after a mean period of 7–14 day...

Erythromycin and clindamycin are major alternatives to βlactam antibiotics. Bacterial resistance to macrolide and lincosamide antibiotics is increasing worldwide. Erm genes express either constitutive macrolide, lincosamide streptogramin B resistance phenotype (cMLSB) or inducible phenotype (iMLSB) and msrA gene expresses (MSB) phenotype. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of ...

Academics, researchers, practitioners and millions of people from around the world participated in the violence against women campaign that ran from 25 November—International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women—to 10 December—Human Rights Day. The campaign called “16 Days of Activism against GenderBased Violence” is an annual event that connects these two important dates and remin...

introduction conventional operations in fields, soil and water management are not efficient and loss of and damage to the environment are considerable (lal, 2000). crop diversity and understanding the complex interactions between environmental and socioeconomic factors are approaches to make better use of limited resources (tengberg et al., 1998). the most diverse ecosystems have a higher produ...