There is several evidence suggests that thrombophilic gene polymorphisms may influence susceptibility to thromboembolic events. The prevalence of these polymorphisms is different in various races and ethnics. Accordingly, we studied the prevalence of Factor V (G1691A and A4070G), prothrombin G20210A and PAI-1 4G/5G in healthy northwest population of Iran. In this prospective study, 500 healthy ...

Based on field studies, museums collections and literature sources, the current knowledge of the tiger beetle fauna of Israel and adjacent lands is presented. In Israel eight species occur, one of them with two subspecies, while in the Sinai Peninsula nine species of tiger beetles are now known. In the combined regions seven genera from two tribes were found. The Rift Valley with six cicindelid...

A new species of scorpion is described based on a rare entire adult male preserved in a cloudy amber from Miocene rocks in the Chiapas Highlands, south of Mexico. The amber-bearing beds in Chiapas constitute a Conservation Lagerstätte with outstanding organic preservation inside plant resin. The new species is diagnosed as having putative characters that largely correspond with the genus Tityus...

cognitive aspects of bilingualism have been recently studied by manyresearchers and lots of them have reported bilingual advantage overmonolinguals in some aspects of cognition. given the multitude of bilinguals iniran, further and deeper studies of various aspects of this phenomenon seem torequire. in order to study bilingualism in iran from a cognitive point of view,the present study examines...

the emergence of plasmodium vivax in dashte moghan in northwestern iran has become a major concern for iranian's health officials. knowledge of genetic make up of the p. vivax populations in this area would give us an insight into the origin of the prevalent infections and the possible routes they are introduced. this paper reports the analysis of a variable region between the two interspecies ...

the present study attempts to investigate the effect of orthographic depth on the occurrence of persian spelling errors of azari-speaking students. for this purpose, the mentioned factor was calculated by phoneticity measure according to spencer (1999). the data for doing this research were collected from 125 papers of final persian dictation exams which belonged to the students from 4 junior h...

Although proteins isotopically labeled with iodine have been used in tracer studies for some years, interest has been mainly focused on their distribution and degradation in the body. While it is often possible to produce iodoproteins whose physical and chemical properties are not grossly altered, the possible effects of iodination on the functional properties of such substances in a physiologi...