to investigate the effects of deficit irrigation and different levels of nitrogen fertilizer on somequantitative and qualitative properties of melissa, a pot experiment was conducted for one year (2011) inmazandaran province. experiment was carried out as a factorial based on randomized complete blockdesign with three replications. irrigation treatments (25, 52 and 75 percent field capacity, fc...

this paper using generalized roeger's model calculated the lerner index for iranian active industries in 4-digit isic codes during the period 1995-2007. the findings indicate that the lerner index has been between 8 to 16 percent in 38 industries among 131 ones. the index also in different industries shows that more than 50 percent of iranian industries have monopolistic power such that th...

Because of the complexity of Khmer script, up to now there has been neither a typesetting system nor standard encoding for the Khmer language. Presented in this paper are: (a) a complete typesetting system for Khmer based on TEX, METAFONT and an ANSI C preprocessor, as well as (b) a proposal for an 8-bit encoding table for Khmer information interchange. Problems of phonic input, subscript and s...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling and prevalent psychiatric disorder with limited effective treatment options. In addition to the clinical features of the disease, pathologic changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG), including decreased alpha power, have been reported. OBJECTIVES To determine if magnetic brain stimulation can induce normalization of EEG abnormali...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a technique known as collaborative assessment considering students' and faculty members' perceptions of the value and utility of this approach. Twenty-eight dental hygiene students took eight individual assessments (quizzes) immediately followed by completion of the same assessment in a five-member peer group as part of a didactic dental hygiene course....

Reported rates of pancreatitis after ERCP and sphincterotomy range from less than one percent to 40 percent, but rates of 5 percent or more are typical [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]. Variations in reported rates of pancreatitis relate to many factors including the definition used, the thoroughness of follow up [24], and to patient and techniq...

Regulation of endothelial cell (EC) plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (TPA) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (UPA), by various stimuli has been well characterized. We report the upregulation of secreted and intracellular PAI-1 in human umbilical ECs when cocultured with human smooth muscle cells (SMCs...

On April 16, 1999, the Department of Health and Human Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) announced that the number of organ donors increased 5.6 percent in 1998, the first substantial increase since 1995. Donation increases between 1997 and 1998 were substantial for whites (up 6.6 percent from 4,139 to 4,410 donors) and Hispanics (up 7.8 percent from 552 to 595 donors). Ho...

An evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve a digital circuit which computes a simple hash function mapping a 16-bit address space into an 8-bit one. The target technology is FPGA, where the search space of the algorithm is made of the combinational functions computed by cells, of the interconnection topologies and of the interconnections among cells. This circuit is readily applicable to the d...