Harvester ants are known as one of the most renowned bio-disturbances in the arid and semi-arid ecosystems that affecte vegetation by collecting seeds and harvesting plants. It seems that physiognomy of plant association in steppe shrub land of Roodshoor, Saveh, Iran has been highly changed by harvester ants’ activities that caused to conduct this research. The study was carried out on active a...

the response of karoun basin in lumped and semi-distributed simulation were compared. also, the flood intensity of the sub-basins and the effects of physical parameters on flood hydrograph have been investigated. results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the characteristics of flood hydrograph in lumped and semi-distributed simulation. also, results showed that the f...

A critically evaluated database of human intestinal absorption for 648 chemical compounds is reported in this study, among which 579 are believed to be transported by passive diffusion. The correlation analysis between the intestinal absorption and several important molecular properties demonstrated that no single molecular property could be used as a good discriminator to efficiently distingui...

BACKGROUND Malaria has become one of the major health problems currently facing the urban communities. The rapid increase in urbanization, rural-urban migration and climatic changes are among the main factors contributing for the rise of malaria in urban areas. To our knowledge, there has been no malaria prevalence study so far conducted in Gondar Town. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to ...

The purpose of this study was to characterize spatial and temporal variations of carbonyl compounds in Gumi city, where a number of large electronic-industrial complexes are located. Carbonyl samples were collected at five sites in the Gumi area: three industrial, one commercial, and one residential area. Sampling was carried out throughout a year from December 2003 to November 2004. At one ind...

Precommercial thinning aims to reduce the density of immature stands stimulate growth well-spaced crop trees preferred species and free from defects disease. The chronic persistence Armillaria, Laminated Tomentosus root diseases in coniferous forests British Columbia, Canada may offset potential gains timber yield commercially important tree by creating stumps that fungi utilize as an energy so...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of different levels of citrus limon essential oil on nutrient digestibility, blood and ruminal metabolites in male holstein calves. this study were conducted using four male holstein calves, each fitted with a permanent rumen cannula (average body weight 650±20 kg) that received experimental diets including control with 600, 800 and 1000 mg/d le...