like other developing countries, iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. for about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the urban growth boundary (u.g.b.) which is still used without any major modifications.despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

like other developing countries, iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. for about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the urban growth boundary (u.g.b.) which is still used without any major modifications.despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

this study was aimed at evaluating the effects of planting’s different dates on the trend of leaf area index, dry biomass weight and panicle weight in addition to the yield of rice varieties for one year in the north region of khuzestan, as spilt plots in the form of fully random blocks in three repetitions. main factor was the date of planting at three levels (26 may, 10 jun, 26 jun) and the s...

OBJECTIVE Standard deviation score or Z-score reference charts are used in some countries in preference to percentile charts and are considered as better tools in assessing children with measurements outside the accepted limits of normality. Growth data for Istanbul children have previously been reported as percentiles; hence, the aim of this study is to present these data in Z-score reference ...

Background: There is conflicting evidence on the ‘‘fetal origins hypothesis’’ of association between birth weight and adult lung function. This may be due to failure to control for confounding maternal factors influencing birth weight. In the present study access to birth details for adults aged 45–50 years who were documented as children to have asthma, wheezy bronchitis, or no respiratory sym...

a 6 week study was conducted to assess the effects of wood betony (wb), stachys lavandulifolia extract on growth performance, hematological and biochemical parameters of common carp, cyprinus carpio. different levels of the wb extract (0, 2, 4 and 8 % weight per weight, w/w, 0wb, 2wb, 4wb and 8wb) in the diet were used. the results showed that final weight and weight gain were significantly imp...

A pig changes over time: it puts on weight and eats more, as it becomes larger. Different pigs grow in a different manner. There is evidence that these differences in growth patterns between pigs are caused by genetic factors. This gives the opportunity to select for these different growth patterns, to better meet the demands of markets that differ in desired slaughter weight, eg Bacon, fresh p...

low birth weight ( lbw, birth weight<2500g) is a significant health problem of children. many studies have made it apparent that there is a direct relationship between low birth weight and infant motality. one of the most important measurements to prevent children morbidity is growth monitoring and the present study was set up to compare the growth indexes of 2 year old children born with low w...

background: the association between maternal smoking and poor pregnancy outcome, which is well established in medi­cal literature, has also been corroborated by the results of this study conducted in a turkish hospital. our objective was to investi­gate the effects of cigarette smoking during pregnancy on infant head circumference, height, weight, and body mass in­dex (bmi). methods: in this re...