soil erosion is the most important threat to the soil and water resources among the soil degradation processes in arid and semi-arid regions. this study was conducted in shirin-darreh basin, a semi-arid region in north-eastern iran, to evaluate the performance of erosion potential method (epm) and hydro-physical method (csy) in generating erosion potential and sediment load maps via geographic ...

Valeriana officinalis (valerian), as a nutraceutical herb, is widely used for its sedative and hypnotic properties. It is known that C15 sesquiterpenoid valerenic acid (VA) is the active ingredient responsible for pharmacological effects of V. officinalis. To evaluate the effect of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) concentrations (50 and 100 µM...

Background and Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is one of the common complications of diabetes which significantly accounts for preventable visual impairment and blindness. Central macular thickness (CMT) is a feature found in DME patients. This study aims to determine the relationship between optical coherence tomography (OCT)-measured CMT and visual acuity (VA) in patients with DME bef...

Personalization of e-commerce applications is an issue that is gaining increasing importance with the advancing maturity of such systems. There is already e-commerce software on the market offering integrated e-shop and personalization functions. However, the available software is too timeconsuming and expensive for SMEs. With this in mind we saw a need to investigate the potential for personal...