Based on the morphological study of specimens of rust fungi collected during 2002-2003, a contribution is made to the rust fungus flora of Hamedan province: Uromyces inaequialtus var. ecbatanensis is described as new taxon. Melampsora allii-fragilis and Uromyces acantholimonis var. zagrosica are new reports for Iran. New observations on already known species were made: the aecia of Melampsora e...

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Information on different rangeland plants’ nutritive values during variousphonological stages is of importance for the rangelands management. This information helpsrangeland managers to choose proper grazing times to achieve higher animal performancewith no detrimental effects on the rangeland vegetations. Effects of various plant parts’phenological stages and vegetation types on reserve carboh...

One of the most oft-cited parts of Francis Hutcheson’s Illustrations upon the Moral Sense (1728) is his discussion of “exciting reasons.” In this paper I address the question: What is the function of that discussion? In particular, what is its relation to Hutcheson’s attempt to show that the rationalists’ normative thesis ultimately implies, contrary to their moral epistemology, that moral idea...

Criteria for the classification of bacterial viruses were proposed by Burnet (1933), including particle size, serological relationship, and certain physiological characteristics. These criteria were applied to the definition of 12 serological groups of coli-dysentery phages. This taxonomic scheme was an important advance since it embodied the concept of phylogenetic relationships among the bact...