this study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of tarragon powder on performance, carcass characteristics of broiler chickens. two hundred ross 308 male broiler chickens were randomly allocated into four treatments and five replicates per treatment. at each replicate ten birds were used. experimental diets were set on the basis of corn-soy-wheat and ross 308 broiler chic...

BACKGROUND Community-based epilepsy care programs improve access to epilepsy treatment in resource-poor settings. Community volunteers are important to these services. Most studies on familiarity with, understanding of, and attitudes towards people with epilepsy (PWE), however, ignore these volunteers. METHODS We explored these issues among 15 community volunteers involved in a community-base...

Ahmed recently reviewed the evidence for an association between prolonged breastfeeding and malnutrition in developing countries. 1 They stated that most prior studies had demonstrated a negative association (increased malnutrition or lower mean nutritional status, both in terms of height-forage and weight-for-height, among prolonged breast-fed children), although an absence of a relationship, ...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the hepatotoxicity as well as antioxidants activities of hydromethanolic extract of six common traditional species (Origanum vulgar, Pterocarya fraxinifolia, Ferula assafoetida, Artemisia dracunculus, Rosmarinus officinalis, and Valerian officinalis) in order to find a safe antioxidant source. Methods: This research project was perf...

El estragón (Artemisia dracunculus L.) es una planta aromática y medicinal, con gran potencial de exportación valor comercial competitivo, por lo que imprescindible evaluar estrategias tendentes a incrementar la producción del cultivo. objetivo presente estudio fue el crecimiento cultivado en invernadero respuesta inoculación Trichoderma harzianuam (Rifai) Glomus cubense (Y. Rodr. & Dalpé),...

Recent development cooperation with Guinea‐Bissau, focusing on good governance, state‐ building and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabili‐ zation of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea‐ Bissau as a failed “narco‐state”, as well as Western aid meant to stabilize this state, are both based on dubious...

Although the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans reproduces primarily as a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, males are maintained in natural populations at low frequency. In this commentary, I discuss the evolutionary forces that maintain males and the role males might play in this mating system.