nitric oxide (no) is a small molecule synthesized by most of mammalian cells with diverse biological activities including vasodilatation, host defense and wound healing. impaired wound healing is a common occurrence among diabetics and patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy. on the other hand the application of laser in biomedical area have been increased. thus, the current studies were desi...

Artemisia aucheri is a valuable pharmaceutical plant that has many kinds of compounds such as monoterpenoids and phenolics. In vitro culture and callus culture of A. aucheri was established using the sterile plant seeds on MS media. The plant and callus were treated with plant hormones including 2,4-D and Kinetin and also salicylic acid and chitosan as stimulators. The presence of total phenol...

this study investigated (a) the learners’ existing reading strategy repertoire, (b) the effect of instruction in reading strategies on learners’ strategic performance, and (c) the effect of explicit instruction in top-down reading strategies on reading comprehension ability of intermediate learners. the study was conducted with 40 intermediate efl learners in two groups of experimental and cont...

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

Salicylic acid is an important signal molecule modulating plant responses to abiotic (drought) stresses. A pot factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications was carried out to investigate the effect of salicylic acid on yield and essential oil content of fenugreek under water deficit conditions. Factors were two irrigation levels (50 and 100% of field capaci...

abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...

  Utilization compounds like salicylic acid is one of the ways to control the salinity and reduce the damage of salinity. Salicylic acid is a phenolic compound plays a role as signaling molecule in plant tolerance system, to protect plants against stresses. The experiment was done to evaluate the effect of salinity (0, 5, 50, 100 and 200 mM) and salicylic acid (0, 100, 200 and 300 μM) on t...