the incidence and prevalence of obesity are fast increasing worldwide. various indices have been used to measure and assess obesity. the body mass index (bmi) is the most common and practical of these indices. overweight and obesity exert considerable adverse effects on the cardiovascular system. these effects are mediated through various neurohormonal and cytokine pathways, most of which are i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to investigate blood pressure (BP) levels and their association with different indices of body fat in adult Baniyas. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional survey was carried out on an endogamous group of 577 adults (307 females and 270 males) aged 25-60 years in Delhi, India. METHODS Data were collected for weight, height, waist circumference and blood pres...

One of considerable topics in chemistry is surveying the quantitative structure-property relationship between the structure of a molecule and chemical, physical and biological properties of it(QSPR). For this purpose, the form of molecule must be coded according to numbers. A common method, for coding the molecule structure, is to assign a graph to the molecule, where the vertices are atoms of ...

in order to develop the high intensive agriculture, more chemical fertilizers are applied to the soil that resulting in soil degradation and environment deterioration. application of organic manure is an important approach for maintaining and improving the soil fertility and increasing fertilizer use efficiency. therefore, in order to evaluate the effect of organic manures and chemical fertiliz...

manipulating of planting pattern is a method to increase the crop yield per unit of area which should be considered in different regions. in order to evaluate the effects of between and within row distances on growth indices of gahar mung bean, an experiment was conducted at the agricultural research center of ilam in 2004. the experiment was a split-plot arranged in an rcb design.three between...

the rapid growth of population in the third world countries specially in recent decades has posed an important social problem. there have been some attempts to propose solutions for this problem by scientists from various disciplines. however, it seems that an integrated approach calling for collaboration of various efforts can be more fruitful. in this work, we study the relation of women fert...

introduction: corrosion and scaling of water in distribution systems in spite of imposing economic and aesthetic problems can lead to adverse effects on consumers' health. the present study was conducted to evaluate the corrosion and scaling of water distribution system of sarableh city (ilam, iran) during summer and winter seasons in 2014. materials and methods: totally, 60 samples of wat...

The article contains a preliminary glance at balanced clustering problems. Basic balanced structures and combinatorial balanced problems are briefly described. A special attention is targeted to various balance/unbalance indices (including some new versions of the indices): by cluster cardinality, by cluster weights, by inter-cluster edge/arc weights, by cluster element structure (for element m...

Multispectral satellite images have been utilized in the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for crop cover classification and crop acreage estimation since the 1970's. Though ancillary data is utilized to enhance the classification accuracy, there are few applications that maximize the utilization of the feature information of the given multispectral images. Every multispectral ima...

This paper proposes an optimization method for planning adequate number and location of automatic switches in a radial distribution system. The purpose is to maximize the profit of that service reliability indices achieve the required level. First, a network equivalent technique is introduced to calculate the reliability indices. Second, by using the equivalent method, system reliability indice...