Doubtlessly, one of the most important developments in medical science has been the discovery of antibiotics and their use in the treatment of infectious diseases caused by the various bacteria. However, every day we witness the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria which their resistance power against the antibiotics are increasing; although scientists discover new antibiotics every year ...

Samineh JAFARI, Soodabeh SAEIDNIA, Mohammad Reza SHAMS ARDEKANI , Abbas HADJIAKHOONDI, Mahnaz KHANAVI* Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14155-6451, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran Medicinal Plants Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran...

Roghieh Kharaghani, Mohammad Shariati, Afsaneh Keramat, Masud Yunesian, Alireza Moghisi. Department of Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran; Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Environmental Research, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Center for Health Related S...

The semantic web has evolved over the current web and aims to provide a web that allows for easy retrieval and accessing of information by both man and machine. It provides for a wide variety of technology stacks , language standards and software components which help both man and machine to access data easily. Intelligent information retrieval and the credibility of data is managed in semantic...

The taxonomy of Kessleria, a highly specialized montane genus of Yponomeutidae with larval host restriction to Saxifragaceae and Celastraceae (Saxifraga spp. - subgenus Kessleria; Saxifraga spp. and Parnassia spp. - subgenus Hofmannia), is revised based on external morphology, genitalia and DNA barcodes. An integrative taxonomic approach supports the existence of 29 species in Europe (the two k...

The genus Urgleptes Dillon (1956) is reviewed for Hispaniola. Five new species of Urgleptes from the Dominican Republic are described herein: Urgleptes charynae Ravin & Lingafelter, sp. n. (La Vega province), Urgleptes conjunctus Ravin & Lingafelter, sp. n. (Peravia Prov.), Urgleptes curtipennis Ravin & Lingafelter, sp. n. (Independencia Prov.), Urgleptes marionae Ravin & Lingafelter, sp. n. (M...

Electronic Government is one of the special concepts which has been performed successfully within recent decades. Electronic government is a digital, wall-free government with a virtual organization for presenting of online governmental services and further cooperation in different political/social activities. In order to have a successful implementation of electronic government strategy and be...

Provenance description is necessary for long-term preservation of digital resources. Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS), which are well-known standards designed for digital preservation, define descriptive elements for digital preservation. Metadata has to be preserved as well as primary resource in order to keep the primary res...

A taxonomic revision and a key to the species of the subgenus Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) Beier, 1930 from Italy, Corsica and the Swiss Canton of Ticino are provided. The species are arranged in two species-groups (tetrachelatus group and fuscimanus group) on the basis of the shape of pedipalpal hand and of the type of dentition of the fixed and movable chelal fingers. The following new speci...

Provenance models are crucial for describing experimental results in science. The W3C Provenance Working Group has recently released the PROV family of specifications for provenance on the Web. While provenance focuses on what is executed, it is important in science to publish the general methods that describe scientific processes at a more abstract and general level. In this paper, we propose ...