while the «classical insecticides» (ddt: dieldrin, malathion, etc.) mainly affect the adult stage of insects, dimilin belongs to a new group of insecticidal compounds that kills the insect in its larval stages, but has no lethal affect on the adult insect. its empirical formula is c14h9h2~f2cl. diflubenzuron is proposed as common name for the trade name dimilin. studies were made on c. pipiens,...

background and objectives: sleep is a sign of the greatness of god. in this article sleep is described from quran and modern health sciences. methods: this is a qualitative systematic review. data were gathered from the quran, related islamic narratives and literatures. words that were searched included sleep,sleep stages, subaat, hojoo, ruqood, nu’ass, sinah. results: the results showed that t...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the concurrent validity of the parent-completed developmental screening measure Ages and Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition (ASQ-3) compared with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) in children born term, late preterm, or extremely preterm at 8, 18, or 30 months of corrected gestational ages (CGA). METHODS Data were ...

The tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system for lung cancer has been modified since its first edition in the late 1960s. Its seventh edition has been recently published and, for the first time, a truly worldwide database was analyzed in order to propose modifications in the staging. Significant changes have been made in the tumor and metastasis descriptors. Although the recommendations for t...

Total sleep deprivation (TSD) of rats for 24 hours or less by continually enforced locomotion has consistently produced subsequent rebounds of slow-wave or high-amplitude EEG activity in NREM sleep, which has contributed to the widely held view that this EEG activity reflects particularly "intense" or restorative sleep. These rebounds usually have been accompanied by substantial rebounds of REM...