introduction: a thyroid nodule is a palpable swelling in a thyroid gland with an otherwise normal appearance. palpable thyroid nodules occur in 4 to 7 percent of the population. nodular thyroid diseases are more frequent in women than in men. most actions of thyroid hormone are mediated by the active form of thyroid hormone. d2 is essential for formation of active hormone of t3 through deiodina...

the flowering and fructification period of the chilean strawberry (fragaria chiloensis (l.) duch.) is restricted to approximately 2 mo, which seriously limits the commercial development of the species. the objective of the current investigation was to identify inter simple sequence repeat (issr) polymorphisms associated with flowering duration in accessions of f. chiloensis. the flowering durat...

the enormous growth of the world wide web in recent years has made it necessary to perform resource discovery efficiently. for a crawler it is not an simple task to download the domain specific web pages. this unfocused approach often shows undesired results. therefore, several new ideas have been proposed, among them a key technique is focused crawling which is able to crawl particular topical...

in the current study, the information on occurrence, distribution and host aphid-plant associations for the species of praon haliday in iran are presented. eight species of praon were found in the areas under study, which include four previously reported species, viz. praon absinthi bignell, praon barbatum mackauer, praon exsoletum (nees) and praon volucre (haliday), and four new records, praon...

background: endometriosis influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. associations of glutathione s-transferases (gsts) genes polymorphisms in endometriosis have been investigated by various researchers; however, the results are not consistent.objective: we examined the associations of gstm1 and gstt1 null genotypes and gstp1 313 a/g polymorphisms with endometriosis in an iranian popu...

The main goal of the paper is to present the characteristics of business renovation efforts in Slovenia. Renovation is presented as the highest level of strategy for managing change that commonly cannot be handled by continuous improvement and reengineering methods or organizational restructuring. The research is based on the questionnaire about BPR projects implemented in Slovenian organizatio...

In recent years tourism has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy and is widely recognized for its contribution to regional and national economic development. Tourism product design and development have become important activities in many areas/countries as a growing source of foreign and domestic earnings. On the other hand, customer relationship management is a compet...

In physics, a spectrum is, the series of colored bands diffracted and arranged in the order of their respective wave lengths by the passage of white light through a prism or other diffracting medium. Outside of physics, a spectrum is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary infinitely within a continuum. In commerce, an effective visualization tool, especially fo...

Mining a transaction database for association rules is a particularly popular data mining task, which involves the search for frequent co-occurrences among items. One of the problems often encountered is the large number of weak rules extracted. Item taxonomies, when available, can be used to reduce them to a more usable volume. In this paper we introduce a new data mining paradigm, which invol...

In 2003, the American Psychological Association (APA) published the Guidelines on MulUcullural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organlzarlonal Change for Psychologfsrs, which marked APA's first fonnal statement on the substantive influence of cultural and contextual ractors in clinical, research, school, consulting, organizational, teaching, and training settings. The guidelines, de...