To determine whether the pathogenic Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia spielmanii is adapted exclusively to garden dormice, we compared the reservoir competence of various rodent species for this spirochete, including sympatric and peridomestic rodents. The different kinds of rodents varied in their attractiveness to nymphal ticks and their level of susceptibility to tick-borne B. spielmanii infe...

Iris recognition has been acknowledged as the most accurate method in biometrics that is one of main automated identification technologies. The iris image quality and iris verification of eyes in dark brown, regular brown, hazel, green, and blue was tested. The effects of eyeglasses and contact lenses on the iris image quality score and iris verification were investigated, respectively. The inv...

The development of appropriate wildlife survey techniques is essential to promote effective and efficient monitoring of species of conservation concern. Here, we demonstrate the utility of two rapid-assessment, non-invasive methods to detect the presence of elusive, small, arboreal animals. We use the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, a rodent of conservation concern, as our focal speci...

taxol is used to treatment of variety cancers including ovarian, breast, lung, head and neck carcinomas and the aids-related karposi’s carcinoma, and was originally obtained from bark of taxus brevifolia. however the amount of extracted taxol from taxus is extremely low and cannot be considered as a suitable commercial source and it has led to studies for finding new sources of taxol. in 1998, ...

background: sustainable and commercial production of taxol as an anti cancer drug is a critical point to its clinical application. nowadays, hazel because of rapid growth and wide range distribution is considered as an alternative source of taxol. objective: to increase taxol production the cdna encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coa reductase (hmgr) from iranian hazel (genebank accession numb...

The purpose of this study is to determine the woody species diversity in Sweet chestnut tree, Hazel-tree and Italian cypress ecosystems in the Guilan forests. A lozeng 0.5 ha sample plot was selectively established on each site. In the Sweet chestnut ecosystems , 4 sites were classified, whereas 10 sites of Hazel tree and Italian cypress ecosystems were classified based on species composition. ...

the common hazel (corylus avellana) is a species native to the northwest of iran, with over 12500 ha grown in the province of guilan. in the autumn of 2011, twigs and branch galls of corylus avellana were frequently observed on common hazel trees in eshkevarat orchards in the province of guilan. on hazel trees the galls appear as large nodules initiated on twigs in which tissues developed more ...

Hazel NA, McDonell MG, Short RA, et al. Impact of multiple-family groups for outpatients with schizophrenia on caregivers’ distress and resources. Psychiatr Serv 2004;55:35–41. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...