Background and objectives: There is a growing trend towards investigating natural products as sources of compounds with biological effects and many researches have been carried out in order to find effective medications against many diseases. Cancer is no exception and studies focusing on evaluating the effects of different materials on DNA, give valuable information in cancer researches and ca...

during 2007-2008, 58 strains of p. syringae pv. syringae (pss) were isolated from various prunus species and other hosts such as sugar beet, pear, quince, oat, millet, wheat, barley, and rice in fars, isfahan, kohgiloye and boyer ahmad, chahar mahal-o-bakhtiari provinces of iran. the strains were tested for pathogenicity, the presence of the syrb gene and box pcr (box a1r primer). all teste...

in the present study, we reported the results of the monitoring and investigations of the ichthyofauna of the beshar river, one of the tributaries of the tigris−euphrates basin in kohkiluyeh and boyer-ahmad province, southwest of iran. the results showed that during a period from 2010 to 2011, a total of 13 fish species belonging to 4 families and 3 orders were recorded in the beshar river. the...

the findings revealed that about 31 percent of women were below and 69% were above the food poverty line. comparison of averages of some variables including education status, employment (head of household), income, banking facilities such as credit and loans, property and assets, savings, economic skills, economic participation, government supports, husband's attitude, self-confidence, self-est...

My current research is focused around building frameworks for intelligent agents and agent-oriented software engineering. In my dissertation, I have developed a new formal framework for the analysis and implementation of multi-agent systems. Most of my other research activities are associated with applied computational intelligence—including fuzzy expert systems for natural language-based compu...

Paying attention to the health of people in the community is one of the main challenges that has received much attention in recent years. Regarding the importance of the healthcare sector in the life of the community, evaluation of the performance of this sector is important. One of the most practical methods for evaluating performance is the use of data envelopment analysis approach. In this p...

background: previous studies have revealed significant differences between populations for genotypic frequencies of glutathione s-transferase t1 ( gstt1 ) and m1 ( gstm1 ) polymorphisms. in order to find the frequency of the null genotypes of gstm1 and gstt1 in iranian populations, the present study was carried out. methods: the total study subjects consisted of 1340 unrelated healthy muslims/i...