background: a lot of women die each because of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion. according to importance of unwanted pregnancies, the purpose of the current study is to determine prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and its related factors in interruption method users in gorgan health-care centers in 2010. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study, 339 eligible women that were under sup...

Abstract Room-temperature growth of oxide layers on aluminum in highly diluted mixtures oxygen with argon (O 2 molar fractions 20 ppm ≤ $$x_{O_2}$$ x O 2 500 ppm, partial pressures Pa $$p_{O_2}$$ p 50 Pa) flowing through a dielectric-ba...

We study orbifolding by the $\mathbb{Z}_2^{\rm (per)}$ permutaion of $T^2_1 \times T^2_2$ with magnetic fluxes and its twisted orbifolds. classify possible three generation models which lead to non-vanishing Yukawa couplings on magnetized orbifolds including permutation (t)}$ twist. also modular symmetry such orbifold models. As an illustrating model, we examine realization quark masses mixing ...

background : we investigated whether the c-819t snp of the ctla4 gene is associated with type 1 diabetes (t1d) for the egyptian population, a multi-ethnic group.  we determined if expression of the c-819t snp correlated with onset of t1d for egyptian children and the prevalence of this polymorphism with respect to gender. methods: the association of the c-819t snp in intron 1 of the ctla-4 gene...

hybrid-density functional theory (b3lyp/def2-tzvpp) based method and nbointerpretation were used to investigate the conformational behavior of 1,2-dihalodisilanes[halo=f (1), cl (2), br (3), i (4)]. the b3lyp/def2-tzvpp results showed that the anticonformations of compounds 1-4 are more stable than their corresponding gaucheconformations. the stability of the anti conformation compared to the g...

the effect of in ovo injection of olive leaf extract as a growth promoter antibiotic was studied on hatchability, day old chick weight, growth rate, feed conversion ratio, mortality and carcass efficiency. three hundred and twenty eggs were divided into 4 groups, and injected on day 18. treatments consisted of: 1- control (no injection). 2- injection of 1 ml of distilled water in air sac (dw), ...

precise application of the n fertilizer rate is critical to achieve maximum yield. in major regions, empirical methods were used for determining n fertilizer requirement. these methods cannot take into account variation in management and environmental conditions on determining fertilizer requirement. crop simulation models can provide an alternative means of determining the optimum crop n requi...

this research was conducted at the agricultural college of tehran university in 2005 to analyze the effect of use of cytokinin as well as of calcium on durability of rose (illona cultivar). cuttings were taken from rose biennial mother plants, then treated by cytokinin of 0, 0.1, 1and10 micromole per liter and calcium of 0,10,20 and 30 milimole per liter. cut flowers, after harvest, were kept i...

background: previous studies have shown that some cytokines have protective effects on cartilage in joint diseases. in the current study, effects of il-4 against morphological changes and tissue degradation induced by il-1α on bovine nasal cartilage (bnc) explants were investigated. methods: fresh bnc samples were prepared from a slaughterhouse under sterile conditions. bnc explants culture was...