This study examined the behavioral effects of d-amphetamine and recreational activities, alone in combination, high low impulsive sensation seekers. Healthy 18-27 year-old participants, scoring upper (N=8) or lower third college students on sensation-seeking scale Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire, completed eight test days which sessions were before (i.e., baseline) 60, 120 180 minut...

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Twenty apparently healthy and normal Nigerian female students, resident at the University of Ibadan campus, were studied for seven consecutive days to assess their food energy intake and energy expenditure during sedentary and physical activities. The mean age (years) of the group was 20.05 (SD 3.44, range 16-29), mean height (m) 1.62 (SD 0.07, range 1.47-1.74) and body-weight (kg) 51.28 (SD 3....

Objective(s):Rapamycin is an immunosuppressant compound with a broad spectrum of pharmaco-logical activities. In recent years, it has been used successfully to decrease ischemia-reperfusion injury in several organ systems. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of rapamycin on testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury. Materials and Methods: Seventy-two adult male Wistar rats w...

background and objectives: dorema ammoniacum d. don (apiaceae) is a monocarpic plant endemic to central iran. the gum resin of this species is a known therapeutic agent in iranian, indian and western traditional medicines. the aim of the present study was to investigate essential oil constituents and evaluation of antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the essential oils and extracts of d....

Technology foresight activities in Korea have been undertaken in three ways. One is to support the launching of national research and development (R&D) programs and also the establishment of science and technology (S&T) development plans. The first national R&D program was started in the early 1980s and at that time a primitive type of technology foresight activities was performed under the ini...

today, capacity, development, and real independence of countries largely are linked with the ability to produce and publication of science. purpose of this research is evaluation of the relative performance of research and development performance of iran in compared with the region's countries by combined approach of dea/topsis. to this end, research and development activities of fourteen ...