Background and objectives:Drimia maritima (L.) Stearn also known as squill is a medicinally important plant that has been used for various ailments such as dropsy, respiratory disorders, jaundice and epilepsy from ancient times. Proscillaridin A is identified as one of the most effective compounds in the plant with remarkable pharmacological features including efficacy...

Objective The present study was conducted to develop a decision-making questionnaire for selecting donor conception and assess its psychometric properties in Iranian infertile couples. MaterialsAndMethods This scale development study was conducted based on De Vellis’ method (2012) in four steps at Milad Infertility Clinic in Mashhad, Iran. The dimensions of the concept of decision-making were d...

Unlike teacher beliefs, there has been a dearth of study regarding EFL learner beliefs. The reason can be that Horwitz (1987) and the existing literature has predominantly been in an ESL context. The present study reports the development and validation of a scale to measure the learner beliefs about language learning in Iranian EFL contexts. Using a combination of verbal creativity method, inte...

weirs have widely been used for the flow measurement, flow diversion and its control in the open channels. attempts have been made to study flow over different shapes of normal weirs, side weirs and oblique weirs. this paper is connected with the development of the discharge coefficient measurement. in the present study four different weirs in different height are considered for validation purp...

objective(s) developing and validating a simple, efficient, reproducible and economic reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic (rp-hplc) method for the quantitative determination of pefloxacin in bulk material, tablets and in human plasma. materials and methods a shim-pack clc-ods column and a mobile phase constituting acetonitrile: 0.025 m phosphoric acid solution (13:87 v/v, ph ...

the purpose of this paper is to design entrepreneurship model of agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. in fact the purpose of this paper is to identify the prerequisite (the influential factors of entrepreneurship), process (development of entrepreneurial program in organization); context (extension perspective in the context of agricultural sustainable ...

It is difficult to deal with the traditional weight problems of MCDM ( multiple criteria decision making). However, the previous aggregation operators (include OWA) do not take into account the situational factors when processes the aggregation, i.e. these operators and aggregation situation are independent. In order to solve this problem mentioned above, we propose a new powerful OWA aggregati...

ii Foreword The primary objective of this project is the formulation of software independent verification and validation (IV&V) methodologies that can be readily applied to future software development projects both for and within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Inherent in the methodologies is the precise specification of software measurement and data collection proces...

Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) has been established as a promising target in asthma andchronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PDE4B subtype selective inhibitors are known toreduce the dose limiting adverse effect associated with non-selective PDE4B inhibitors. Thismakes the development of PDE4B subtype selective inhibitors a desirable research goal. Toachieve this goal, ligand based pharmacophore m...