Functional brain connectivity measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a popular technique for investigating neural organization in both healthy subjects and patients with mental illness. Despite a rapidly growing body of literature, however, functional connectivity research has yet to deliver biomarkers that can aid psychiatric diagnosis or prognosis at the single-subject ...

Circulating autoantibodies produced by the patient’s own immune system after exposure to cancer proteins are emerging as promising biomarkers for the early detection of cancer. An advantage of autoantibodies in cancer detection is their production in large quantities, despite the presence of a relatively small amount of the corresponding antigen. Autoantibodies are also expected to have persist...

Apricot is grown in a wide range of climatic conditions in Iran, however, it is frequently damaged by late spring frost. In this case, identification of new genotypes tolerant to cold stress is indispensably needed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic population and relationships among 27 apricot accessions (Prunus armeniaca) by 30 microsatellite markers and 11 morp...

Background: To evaluate the natural innate and adaptive immunity through gene expression and cytology levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stable angina pectoris (SAP) and controls. Methods: 210 patients with AMI, 210 with SAP, and 250 clinical controls were recruited. Whole human genome microarray analysis was performed in 20 randomly...

moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (md) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse markers might have on iranian efl learners’ perception of written texts. to this end, 120 undergraduate english students were given three diffe...

metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...

The research on metadiscourse markers investigation in academic texts has grown very rapidly the last decade. However, interactive EFL students' writing is still relatively underexplored. Therefore, this study aims to reveal how competence of students use by comparing two groups with different grades, third-semester and fifth-semester students. design a combination quantitative qualitative meth...

Cancers are genetically and clinically very heterogeneous diseases; therefore, various proteomic studies have been trying to find bio-markers which can facilitate prognosis, diagnosis or treatment of these oncological diseases. The mass spectrometry is an effective tool for identification, quantitation, and characterization of biomolecules in the complex bio-logical samples. The first step suit...

Improvement of livestock has focused on the selective breeding of individuals with superior phenotypes. With the development of increasingly advanced statistical methods that maximise selection for genetic gain, this simple approach has been extremely successful in increasing the quantity of agricultural output. However, information now available on the organisation and functioning of the genom...