Both ancient and modern apocrypha have already been widely discussed in various fields of academic research, for example religious, biblical or literary studies. Although such analyses say much about the historical religious background apocryphal writings enable us to discover depth symbolic resources used texts, they do not fully reveal cultural impact canon. That is why a broader analysis bot...

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Abstract Brazil has advanced in tobacco control actions, with a significant decline the prevalence of use. However, it is essential to identify more vulnerable populations, such as LGBT persons. This study aimed analyze discursive production sustaining search for support and penetration industry among population, taking sponsorship Philip Morris Brasil parade São Paulo 2019. We employed critica...

conclusions: it was concluded that the elisa is a suitable method for large scale screening of antibodies against aspergilloma. the easy techniques have shortened the required time of tests (approximately 1.30 hours for our elisa, as opposed to 2.30 hours with commercial elisa kit). this may be a substantial benefit for large numbers of samples that should be tested. materials and methods: an i...

background: nuts are one of the main consumed snacks worldwide and also have an important role among iranian's food habits. natural contamination of nuts with aflatoxin is unavoidable and causes a special challenge for nuts safety and quality. objectives: the purpose of this research was to study the aflatoxin contamination in commercially-available nuts (pistachio, walnut and peanut) in the ma...

b ackground : tuberculosis is a crucial health problem. establishing a rapid, reliable and still inexpensive diagnostic method for tuberculosis seems to be substantial in developing countries where tb has very high incidence rate . methods:   an indirect  enzyme-linked  immunosorbent  assay (elisa )   was established to detect serum antibodies against mycobacterium  tuberculosis. three kinds of...

conclusions afm1 contamination of milk is not a concern in this city. however, dairy cattle feed samples of various livestocks must be regularly checked for aflatoxin and the storage conditions of feeds should be strictly controlled. results afm1 was detected in all milk samples. the mean concentration of afm1 was 11.61 ± 0.72 ng/l with a range of 6.3-23.3 ng/l. none of the samples had levels e...

lidocaine (lc) is a local anesthetic agent. the aim of this study was to prolong the anesthetic effect of this drug in the oral cavity in the treatment of oral mucositis. films of lc were prepared with three different molecular weights (mw) of chitosan in three different concentrations (1-3%) and were then cross-linked by solvent casting evaporation method with tripolyphosphate penta sodium sal...

materials and methods in this descriptive study, 2988 stool samples of patients with acute gastroenteritis were collected from children’s hospitals of 5 main cities of iran. the samples were sent in frozen condition to pediatric infection research center in tehran and stored at -70°c. elisa test was performed for detection of rotavirus antigens. the mean age of study population was 1 to 5 years...