BACKGROUND With both a high need for recovery (NFR) and overweight and obesity being a potential burden for organizations (e.g. productivity loss and sickness absence), the aim of this paper was to examine the associations between overweight and obesity and several other health measures and NFR in office workers. METHODS Baseline data of 412 office employees participating in a randomised cont...

introduction: to evaluate the quick cryopreservation technique on parameters of motility, morphology, and vitality of spermatozoa from normozoospermic ejaculates. materials and methods: in this prospective study, a total of 37 normal ejaculates were evaluated according to who criteria, then each sample was divided into two aliquets and sample was cryopreserved with quick freezing method. sperm ...

Tree inventories are expensive to conduct and update, so every inventory carried out must be maximized. However, increasing the number of constituent parameters increases the cost of performing and updating the inventory, illustrating the need for careful parameter selection. This article reports the results of a systematic expert rating of tree inventories aiming to quantify the relative impor...

mastic (chatlanqosh or turpentine) is a valuable tree species in most parts of the country, particularly around the southern slopes of the alborz and zagros mountain range distributed. wild mastic tree is mainly due to the adaptability and hard rocky ground tree and needless to excessive irrigation, it doesn't usually crop. it is the mountain range of the plant, giving it less water. the soil a...

'Arogyappacha' (Trichopus zeylanicus) found endemic to Agastyar hills of Kerala is used by the local 'kani' tribe as a health food for getting instant stamina, ever green health and vitality. The tonic effect of this plants is comparable to that of the famous health food/drug 'Ginseng'. A critical survey of the Ayurveda classics, suggests that the 'Arogyappacha' may be the divine 'Varahi'descri...

sulfur (s) is an essential macronutrient influencing plant growth, nutrient efficiency, quality and health of agricultural crops. the purpose of this research was to study the effects of s rates and sources on growth and fruit quality of apple (malus domestica l.) trees of ‘golden delicious’ at west azerbaijan, iran. experiment was conducted during four seasons (2003-2007), using a factorial ra...