In this study, the dominant mechanism that defines species assembly in an old-growth temperate forest was investigated by analyzing specificity of demographic parameters relation to life history stage, testing hypotheses early stages should be more critical for sub-canopy than canopy species. Data 17 major tree Ogawa Forest Reserve (OFR) Japan were analyzed, together with data from (seed produc...

BACKGROUND It has become important to measure long-term effects and quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer. The Minneapolis- Manchester Quality of Life (MMQL) instrument has been proven to better capture the quality of life (QoL) perspective of health than other instruments. The instrument has age appropriate versions and is therefore favourable for longitudinal studies of QoL of chil...

Background: Social health is considered as one of the important aspects of health. Nurses are among the most important health care providers and their quality of life bares great importance for providing good health care quality. Accordingly, this study aimed at determining the relationship between social health and nurses’ quality of life in hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical ...

complaint poetry is a natural expression of human grief, pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment arising from life’s different problems. complaint poetry regarded as a kind of lyric poem in which the speaker faces the cruelty of a faithless lover or the advent of some misfortune like poverty, exile, injustice, in which the poet laments or protests or tells of those miseries. the complaint poetry c...

the crankshaft is one of the most critically loaded components as it experiences cyclic loads in the form of bending and torsion during its service life. its failure will cause serious damage to the engine so it’s important at the time of design to verify fatigue strength. more challenges in crankshaft design due to increasing vehicle payloads, lower weight requirement, higher efficiency and lo...

objective: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a common psychosomatic disorder and about 30%-50% of women in the childbearing age suffer from mild to moderate form of this disorder and 3%-8% suffer from its sever form. the symptoms of this disorder are related to the specific biological characteristics of women's reproductive age that can start from teen years. the symptoms' devastating effect on th...