omentin-1 is a novel adipokine that is predominantly secreted by visceral adipose tissue. circulating levels of omentin-1 is inversely related to obesity. there is limited information about the effect of exercise training on serum omentin-1 concentration. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of four weeks of progressive resistance training on serum omentin-1 levels. 16 male wiste...

in order to study the mode of genetic control and heritability of morphological characteristics important for the improvement of root weight, sugar yield and white sugar yield in tropical beet, griffing's diallel cross method along with the biplot display of diallel data were applied. nine sugar beet lines including 7112-36, 7173, 474, 452, 261, 436-104, sb-firoz, rr607 and 436 were crosse...

a recognition of appropriate soil erosion control methods along with the use of convenient alternatives in erosion control are necessary for a proper management of natural resources. run off control through polymers is one of the new methods employed in reducing soil erosion. this research was conducted to evaluate the effects of a polymer, called anionic polyacrylamide, on soil infiltarion rat...

background: cancer detection always has a lot of stress and nervousness which, apart from physical injuries, will affect quality of life. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between resiliency and quality of life by moderating the role of duration of awareness of cancer. methods: population of the study included all patients with cancer who were under treatment in yazd for...

background: this study evaluated the effect of an educational program on breast self-examination (bse) among women living in bandar abbas, iran. method: this trial studied 240 eligible women attending at eight health centers of bandar abbas who were randomly divided into intervention (n = 120) or control (n=120) group. data regarding belief on breast self examination were collected through the ...

introduction morphological segmentation of land surface is commonly used for land surface allocation in management and environmental sciences. the first step in assigning a piece of land to a specific application is to divide it into homogeneous morphological segments. traditional field-based geomorphological mapping can be time consuming, costly, and challenging when large areas, particularly ...

extended abstract   introduction the most important indicator of climate in a region is vegetation community. climate can be different over large areas, because of changes in vegetation community. vegetation influences weather and climate in its surrounding areas mostly by way of evapotranspiration and albedo so they play a role in the earth’s energy balance. these effects on the earth’s energy...

conclusions patients with apd may have very different symptoms requiring immediate care; therefore, being informed about this condition is necessary for the physicians in emergency and obstetrics and gynecology departments. also a positive history of such condition in a pregnant woman necessitates precautions in the management of her pregnancy due to the potential of anaphylactic events. introd...

to study the tolerance of genotypes under terminal drought stress, 20 promising winter and facultative bread wheat genotypes were evaluated at karadj, ardebil, arak and hamedan agricultural research stations during 2001-02 cropping season. the experimental design in all the locations was randomized complete block of three replications. grain yield (yld), harvest index (hi), grain number per spi...

the aim of this research was to examine the effect of a training interventionprogram on fall-related motor performance in the male elderly with no regularphysical activities. for this purpose, 39 out of 130 participants in screen test wereselected and assigned to training group (n=20) and control group (n=19). subjectsaged between 60 and 70 in experimental were 73.68% and in the control group43...