Plastic stem-elongation responses to the ratio of red:far-red (R:FR) wavelengths enable plants to match their phenotype to local competitive conditions. However, elongation responses early in the life history may occur at the cost of reduced plasticity later in the life history, because elongation influences both allocation patterns and structural integrity. A common-garden experiment was perfo...

In this study, a novel structural fatigue prognosis method is developed to provide prompt, informed fatigue damage predictions of the structures based on strain gauge measurements at remote locations. The method is based on the structural responses reconstruction at the hot spots and a mechanism-based fatigue crack growth formulation. The structural responses measured from usage monitoring syst...

different medicinal plants have been used in animal and poultry nutrition in last decade. it seems that there are some potential to these medicinal plants to replace with common antibiotics. licorice root (glycyrrhiza glabra) is a medicinal plant that extensively was used in different studies. in the present study, the effect of dietary addition of licorice root on performance and blood energy ...

background: premature infants are among high-risk groups in community who need to be hospitalized at intensive care units for survival and receiving basic or special care. hospitalization at neonatal intensive care units (nicus) unsettles the family and leads to the separation of parents from their infants. this study aimed to determine the effects of maternal attachment behaviors on the behavi...

cortical spreading depression (csd) are associated with dramatic failure of brain ion homeostasis, efflux of excitatory amino acids from nerve cells, increased energy metabolism and changes in cerebral blood flow. there is strong clinical and experimental evidence to suggest that csd is involved in the mechanism of migraine, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. therefore,...

how to cite this article: akbari m, joghataei mt, poorbakhat a, jenabi ms. contra-lateral auditory brainstem responses in dyslexia. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4): 10-15.   abstract objective dyslexia is a neurological dysfunction (also known as a learning disability) that characterized by disability in reading in spite of normal intelligence. bothe genetic and environmental risk facto...

Arabidopsis AtWRKY33 plays a critical role in broad plant stress responses. Whether there are evolutionarily conserved homologues of AtWRKY33 in other plants and what make AtWRKY33 such an important protein in plant stress responses are largely unknown. We compared AtWRKY33 with its close homologues to identify AtWRKY33-specific regulatory and structural elements, which were then functionally a...

To determine whether functional characteristics of the taste system change during development, electrophysiological taste responses were recorded from neurons in the solitary complex (nucleus and tractus solitarius) in the medulla of fetal, newborn and adult sheep. Taste stimuli included NH4Cl, KCl, NaCl, LiCl, citric acid, and HCl, applied to the anterior tongue. Fetal neurons at all ages (84-...

the current paper seeks to study the effects of relationship quality on customer’s behavioral responses at different stages of the relationship life cycle in iran's banking industry. in this respect agriculture bank of iran was selected as the target population of the suggested theoretical model of this experiment and 417customers of the bank have participated as the statistical samples to...