The popular press often portrays environmental health risks as scarier than most scientists would portray them. The press tends to present these risks from the general public's perspective. This paper describes a widely used approach to understanding how the views of scientists and the public differ and gives an example of how the gap between these views can be bridged. Because the media's pres...

the recently published articles in the iranian journal ofbiotechnology inspired us to write this short communication on nitrogen dioxide no2-philic plants (1).to cope with environmental pollution, we thought(still think) that development of methods that mitigatepollution is an urgent issue, and that no2-philic plantsthat can grow with no2 as the sole nitrogen source areinstrumental for the impl...

The effects of osmotic and matric water potential on mycelial growth, production and germination of conidia, and production and maturation of pseudothecia of Pyrenophora triticirepentis (PTR), the cause of tan spot of wheat, were examined on clarified V8 juice agar amended with KCl or polyethylene glycol 8000 (PEG8000). Patterns of the growth responses of three isolates to decreasing osmotic an...

A total of 44 mature chickens (about 50 weeks old) males and females inbred naked necked and Frizzle Feathered chickens were crossed to generate a total of 180 day-old(97 Na x Na and 83 F x F chicks) realized from main and reciprocal crossbreeding were used in the study. Mean dayold weights of the Inbreds( Main crossbreds) were 22.17g, 23.87g, 25.50g for (Na x Na), (F x F) and (Na x F) respecti...

Introduction: In the field of orthopedic surgery, highly impact journals like Journal of Bone and Surgery (JBJS-Am) and Clinical orthopedics and Related Research (CORR) publishing the LOE for their manuscript. JBJS-Am started to publish the level of evidence (LOE) for all manuscript since 2013. Results:310 articles were reviewed. Country of origin for these, were twelve different countries incl...