indole ahloids of vinca species are valued greatly in medical sciences, one reason being for their use as powerful anticancer agents. there are four species of vinca in iran: v. rosea, v. major, v. minor and v. herbacea. in previous investigations, we found that these plants have considerable alkaloid similarity (58.8- 75%). therefore, chromosomic and electrophuretic studies followed after inve...

introduction: in  major b -thalassemia impaired biosynthesis of beta hemoglobin leads to accumulation of unpaired alpha hemoglobin chain. an iron overload generates oxygen-free radicals which ultimately leads to tissue injury. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate serum antioxidants in patients with major b -thalassemia and those with minor thalassemia in comparison with respective age ...

comparing the islamic logic and jurisprudential principles, and basedon the separation between minor and major authorities (hujjiyyatsughrawi wa kubrawi), it can be proved that (1) minor authority ofsuitable verbal text per nexum (al-mantuq al-muwafiq al-iltizami),minor authority of suitable concept per nexum (al-mafhum al-muwafiqal-iltizami), and minor authority of contrary concept (al-mafhum ...

Abstract This study explores operations & maintenance requirements for offshore wind turbines. It does so by calculating performance, reliability and metrics from an operational database provided a large farm. Distributions of number repairs repair times per turbine are shared, as well visits. A focus is placed on the effect tidal access restrictions position in array comparing clusters tur...

Prosody plays a big role in the human speech and is used for expressing emotions and attitudes in addition to the lexical words. This study looks at the possibility to use prosody in expressing attitudes with backchannels, such as /oh/, /m/, /uhu/ etc. In the study, two monosyllabic backchannels, /a/ and /m/, were chosen, created synthetically and manipulated systematically with regards to the ...