the main purpose of this study was to explore the factors affecting optimal management of agricultural water in hamadan's area. the statistical population of the study included all hamadan's farmers. a number of 148 farmers were selected randomly through a proportional sampling method in two phases. both questionnaire and interview techniques were used in order to collect data. the empirical an...

background: understanding the motives and reasons for drug treatment is very important. this study aimed to develop a psychometric evaluation to determine the reasons for addiction treatment among outpatients referred to addiction treatment clinics. methods: this cross-sectional validation study included five phases (i) item generation (ii) making an initial questionnaire (iii) content validity...

Vegetation cover over time and space is the result of interactions betweenvegetation cover and environmental factors. Changes occurred in range covers are caused bymatrix dominance, one of the most important environmental factors. Decision support system(DSS) could be used for determining the rate and importance of each factor. Actually, inmethods based on DSS, relations between input and outpu...

Liver-intestine cadherin (LI-cadherin) represents a novel type of cadherin within the cadherin superfamily that comprises seven cadherin repeats and a short cytoplasmic domain. In this study, we first examined LI-cadherin expression immunohistochemically in 34 specimens of human intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). LI-cadherin expression was positive (defined as positivity in > or = 10% of ce...

anchusa )boraginaceae( includes weedy species in different habitats and cultivations and is composed of four species in iran. species delimitation is mainly based on features as zygomorphic or actinomorphic flowers, straight corolla tube and nutlet shape. in this project, morphological features of different accessions of anchusa species were evaluated. totally, 33 qualitative and quantitative m...