Sir, Within the last decades, the increase in the number of researchers in the scientific community has led to an increase in the number of funding and tenure decisions that have to be made. It is therefore a necessity to find simple yet objective measures to compare the scientific achievement of researchers. Hirsch’s h (2005) has been claimed to have these attributes because it incorporates bo...

A common situation in experimental science involves comparing a number of treatment groups each with single reference (control group). For example, we might compare diameters fungal colonies subject to range inhibitory agents those from control group which no agent was applied. In this situation, the most commonly applied test is Dunnett's test, compares separately while controlling experiment-...

Nigella sativa (N. sativa), which belongs to the botanical family of Ranunculaceae, is a widely used medicinal plant all over the world. N. sativa seeds and oil have been used in the treatment of different diseases. Various studies on N. sativa have been carried out and a broad spectrum of its pharmacological actions have been established which include antioxidant, antidiabetic, anticancer, ant...

Saffron, the dried red-orange stigmas of Crocus sativus L, has been known as a flavoring agent, food coloring and traditional herbal medicine. Pharmacological effects of saffron are mainly attributed to crocin, crocetin, picrocrocin and safranal. These components especially crocin, have significant effects including antidepressant and anticonvulsant, analgesic, anti-cancer and other therapeutic...

In this paper we studied the translation surfaces according to a new frame called q-frame in three dimensional Euclidean space. The curvatures of the translation surface are obtained in terms of q-frame curvatures. Finally some special cases are investigated for these surfaces.

there are few reports about congenital indifference to pain or hereditary and sensory autonomic neuropathy (hsan). several investigations for pathophysiology of this syndrome have been performed and different classifications about it. in this report we present a case of hsan type ii with general absence of pain and self amputations and leprosy–like damage of extremities which was suspected to b...