Purpose: To quantitatively evaluate cataract surgeries performed between 2000 and 2005 at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Methods: This retrospective study aimed at patients who had cataract and underwent surgery at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran from 2000 to 2005. One week per season per year was randomly selected after excluding the first two weeks of the Persian Year ...

The apparently rare chelonine wasp genus Wushenia Zettel was previously known only from a single species Wushenia nana Zettel, collected by Townes at 1150 m from Wushe, Taiwan in 1983. Here we describe a second species, Wushenia australiensis sp. nov. from coastal New South Wales, Australia. This second species extends the known distribution of the genus from the Oriental into the Australasian ...

Identifying sources of sampling variation and quantifying their magnitude is critical to the interpretation of ecological field data. Yet, most monitoring programs of reef fish populations based on underwater visual censuses (UVC) consider only a few of the factors that may influence fish counts, such as the diver or census methodology. Recent studies, however, have drawn attention to a broader...

Background: Quality of diet is one of the most important factors in maintaining and improving the children's health; whereas, the quality of children's diet has not been studied in Isfahan City of Iran. This study was conducted to assess the adequacy of diet using healthy eating index (HEI)-2005 among 13-17 year-old students in Isfahan during 2014. Methods: The empirical data on dietary intakes...

This manual is only partially complete and is a work in progress. A completed manual will be available by January 1,2000. Cluster and TreeView are Y2K Compliant because they are oblivious of date and time.

When analysing the behavior of complex networked systems, it is often the case that some components within that network are only known to the extent that they belong to one of a set of possible ”implementations” – e.g., versions of a specific protocol, class of schedulers, etc. In this report we augment the specification language considered in BUCSTR-2004-021, BUCS-TR-2005-014, BUCS-TR-2005-015...