agricultural drought in iran is considered as a natural disaster especially for the farmers. although nobody can stop drought, but if its nature and its characteristics are studied, it can be predicted and the results can be reduced. this article studies drought in the province of sistaan and balouchestaan and the drought predictability in the province has been done base on a model that is made...

This research has been conducted to establish a wheel-point device and evaluate its efficiency (precision, accuracy and time) with respect to the estimation of canopy percent in a pilot Artemisia stand in Khabr region of Baft, Kerman province, Iran in 2015. Several transects with different lengths (30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 m) were established using the randomized sampling block with 5 repli...

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Previous studies have suggested that (1) nitroglycerin causes vasodilatation by interacting with sulfhydryl groups in vascular smooth muscle, thereby activating guanylate cyclase and increasing the intracellular concentration of cyclic GMP, and (2) N-acetylcysteine, a source of sulfhydryl groups, potentiates the peripheral vasodilatory effect of nitroglycerin. This study was performed to explor...

The Rise in the U.S. Dollar The value of the dollar has climbed steadily over much of the past two years (Chart 1). The dollar’s rise through August 1998 represents more than a 20 percent appreciation over its average value in the 1991-95 period and more than a 30 percent strengthening relative to its unusually weak performance in April 1995. This large appreciation is reminiscent of the apprec...