Background: Gestational weight gain is an impressive factor in the fetal outcome. Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is one of the most important problems during fetal period that may lead to many perinatal and long-term complications and growing neonatal morbidities and mortalities. The aim of the study was to ascertain the relationship between umbilical cord blood leptin concentration and...

Information technology (IT) expenditures in different developing nations of the world have been impressive but controversial lately. Research is needed to know how IT expenditures are growing in these nations. Do stages of IT development or price drops in IT infrastructure influence such growth? We intend to explore these issues with various growth models, using data from 14 nations (constraine...

ganglion cells. Auerbach discovered the myenteric plexus and made fundamental observations on endothelium and on fertilization. The accounts of the four lives are somewhat rambling but are related with warmth and sympathy. Professor Kisch's enthusiasm for his subjects occasionally results in eulogistic passages, but there can be no doubt that he has done well to remind us of how much these men ...

Agility of the supply chain is one of the main challenges in organizations which acting in a dynamic and complex environment, which they have to be able to answer to customers quickly. But the agility of supply chain is influenced by different agents. Using the model based on agent, this study has tried to simulate the agility of supply chain in an institute of higher education. There are three...

The World Wide Web (WWW, or the Web for short), has made a huge amount of information electronically available, being an impressive success story in terms of both available information and the growth rate of human users. The Web has evolved from an in-house solution for around 1000 users in 1990 to more than 1 billion users and more than 3 billion pages nowadays, not only world-wide but also de...

Modern challenges of food science require a new understanding of the determinants of food quality and safety. Application of advanced imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has seen impressive successes and fast growth over the past decade. Since MRI does not have any harmful ionizing radiation, it can be considered as a magnificent tool for the quality control of food prod...