background & aim: kelussia odoratissima mozaff. (apiaceae) is one of the medicinal plants and endemic in zagros mountains, iran, which unfortunately due to illegal harvest is endangered. in order to break dormancy and to evaluation of effect of different treatments on traits a factorial experiment base on completely randomized design was created on the seed zone sar-aghaseyed functions in c...

the impact of de-oiled and dried two-phase olive mill waste (dw) amendment on the sorption,degradation, leaching, and persistence of the herbicide terbuthylazine in a mediterranean agricultural soil were studied under laboratory and long-term field conditions. the results are compared with those of a previous study, where the intermediary by-product of the olive-oil processing technology (ow) w...

background lack of independence and unwanted dependence on others for activities of daily living (adl) and decreased functional capacity affect nutritional status of the elderly. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the impact of functional capacity on malnutrition status in hospitalized elderly patients in the qazvin city of iran. patients and methods this cross sectional study wa...

Studies comparing young and older adults suggest a deficit in processing context information as a key mechanism underlying cognitive aging. However, the genetic architecture of context processing has not been examined. Consistent with previous results, we found evidence of functionally dissociable components of context processing accuracy in 1127 late middle-aged twins ages 51-60. One component...

21W.730 [email protected] 3/17/97 Simon and Garfunkel I remember sitting ten rows back, watching the stage in awe. Standing there, side by side, were two quiet men. In front of them, a sea of faces, cut off abruptly by the rear of the theater. The crowd, most of them middle aged or older, were sitting quietly, staring back. Beside the two men on the stage were a couple of wooden stools, two...

Prolonged oesophageal pH monitoring is being used increasingly to detect abnormal gastro-oesophageal reflux. To assess the influence of age on normal reflux patterns, a group of 13 young asymptomatic subjects (mean age 22 years) was compared with a group of 14 middle aged asymptomatic subjects (mean age 49 years). An ambulatory system using a radiotelemetry capsule and a portable receiving syst...

a Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK b MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK c The Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK d MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U...

This saying was already a popular metaphor in the middle ages, and still is. A contemporary meaning of this would be: one who discovers by building on discoveries made by predecessors. And in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, CHANG et al. [1] have done exactly that. Appreciating and using the ideas of a classical physiological study [2], and combining this with the results of mode...

The popularity of indoor tanning may be partly attributed to the addictive characteristics of tanning for some individuals. We aimed to determine the association between frequent indoor tanning, which we view as a surrogate for tanning addiction, and food addiction. A total of 67,910 women were included from the Nurses' Health Study II. In 2005, we collected information on indoor tanning during...