in this article the relationship between the amount of seasonal rainfall (autumn, winter and spring) and climate indices in iran have been studied. the climate indices (the southern oscillation(soi),the north atlantic oscillation(nao), arctic oscillation(ao),nino 3/4,the multivariate enso index(mei),trans_ nino index(tni) and the pacific decadal oscillation(pdo) are used as independent variable...

Nucleotide-activated sugars are essential substrates for plant cell-wall carbohydrate-polymer biosynthesis. The most prevalent grass cell wall (CW) sugars are glucose (Glc), xylose (Xyl), and arabinose (Ara). These sugars are biosynthetically related via the UDP-sugar interconversion pathway. We sought to target and generate UDP-sugar interconversion pathway transgenic Brachypodium distachyon l...

BACKGROUND Estimating the burden of non-communicable diseases particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD) is essential for health management and policymaking. In this paper, we used a regression model to estimate the future impact of demographic changes on the burden of CVD in Iran during the next two decades. METHODS Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) were used to estimate the future burden...

Performance on perceptual-motor (PM) tasks should not be affected by cognitive workload (CW). Subjects performed a novel task that combined a ”recall” version of the n-back task and a PM distractor task. Subjects’ performance was significantly worse on the PM task when CW was increased. As CW was manipulated, the perceptual and motor requirements of both the n-back task and the PM task remained...