The main objective of the present study was to estimate genetic and phenotypic trends for body weight traits in Guilan province sheep. Traits included were birth weight (BW, n=14,549), 3-month weight (3MW, n=13,109) and 6-month weight (6MW, n=10,141). Data and pedigree information used in this study were collected during 1994 to 2011 by the Agricultural Organization of Guilan province in Iran. ...

1-introduction languages employ different strategies to represent motion as one of the basic human cognitive abilities. in talmy's typological dichotomy (1991; 2000b) languages are of two types according to the way they represent path either in verb roots or in satellites, accordingly languages are either verb framed or satellite framed. slobin (1991;1996 a,b.1997;2000) performed corpus based a...

introduction selection of the clear and transparent index for the precipitation using long-term homogeneous data is an important point for the researchers. several investigations have led to different indices for heavy rainfall. in some cases the specific amount of precipitation was used for heavy rainfall (rahimzadeh, 2005; masoodian, 2008; kamiguchi et al., 2006), e.g. alijani (2002) has sugg...

Previous work in video annotation and analysis has concentrated more on the process of annotation than analysis. The focus of our research instead is to provide support for video analysis by developing an environment for the “casual user” to query the video data using spatio-temporal characteristics and to review visual results for trend analysis. In this paper, we present our approach for iden...

As the leading cause of death in the Western world, cardiovascular disease (CVD) constitutes an enormous public health problem.1 The last 4 decades have been characterized chiefly by the postponement of CVD events and CVD related deaths until older age. Thus, the burden of CVD is increasing in parallel with the increase in life expectancy.2 Within this context, identifying persons with CVD, mea...

temperature and precipitation are among important atmospheric parameters for watershed planning. assessment of temperature and precipitation trends is very important for future watershed planning. in this paper, trends of atmospheric parameters such as seasonal and annual temperature and precipitation were examined for the synoptic stations of bandar anzali, rasht, ramsar, babolsar and gorgan. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are leading causes of death and disability. Because they share major common risk factors, it would be expected that trends in mortality and incidence of these 2 major cardiovascular diseases would be similar. METHODS Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular...