on the basis of a cross-sectional demographic survey that was conducted among the qashqai tribe of southern iran in 1973, the crude birth rate was estimated at 48.2 per thousand per year. the most productive age groups, was 25-29 years. forty-nine, point seven per cent (49.7%) or about one half of the total births occurred among married women aged 20 to 29 years eighty-seven point three per cen...

Field experiment was conducted for 2 seasons to study the influence of drip fertigation in combination with or without bio fertilizers on yield, plant uptake and soil fertility of Bt cotton. The treatments comprised of four levels of drip fertigation viz., 75, 100, 125 and 150 per cent of recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF, NPK) combined with and without bio fertilizers, drip irrigation w...

a serum survey was conducted to determine the immune status of children 2 months to 6 years old to polio virus type i, ii and iii related to the history of oral polio vaccination in fashapouye (a rural area in the south of teheran). 566 serum samples were obtained from children in 9 different villages and microneutra lization test was performed on 1;10 dilution of these sera. the study revealed...

Affiliations * Department of Evolution and Ecology. University of California Davis, Davis CA, 95616 § Department of Ecology, Evolution and Physiology. University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 Data Sources http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/arrays/A-AFFY-35/?ref=E-MEXP-1594 http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/dgrp/ http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/10/2311/suppl/DC1 Genetics: Ear...

It has been argued that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site and find results confirming this theory. We can show that price points (special prices ending in 9 or 0...