The bulge contains the most chemically evolved old stellar population in the Milky Way. Thanks to microlensing, it is now possible to obtain high resolution echelle spectra of bulge stars near the main sequence turn-off, and study the abundance of elements that are affected by stellar evolution, such as lithium. We have observed with the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck I 10m telescope the source...

The study was designed to evaluate whether the increase in left ventricular (LV) mass in essential hypertensives (H) is associated with a proportional increase in diameter of the left coronary artery (LCA) trunk. Twenty-six hypertensives, 14 with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) (left ventricular mass index [LVMI] > or =134 g/m2 in men and > or =110 g/m2 in women) and 12 without LVH, and 10 n...

in order to assess and identify genetic diversity and genetic relationships of the 64 kabuli chickpeas genotypes, an experimental design was carried out in a simple lattice design (8×8) in 2009-2010 cropping season on the research field of college of agriculture and natural resource of tehran university. the results of phenotypic correlation showed that grain yield per plant had significant and...

Abstract. Longitudinal haemodynamic force (LF) acting on a bifurcated stent-graft has been estimated previously using a mathematical model which assumes steady flow of an invisid fluid. An experimental method was developed, using an instrumented stent-graft model, to measure LF under human physiological and pathological blood flow conditions. The physical stent-graft model, with main trunk diam...

The variety of applications requiring graph analysis is growing rapidly. Diameter is one of the most important metrics of a graph. The diameter is important in both designing algorithms for graphs and understanding the nature and evolution of graphs. So, detecting diameter of large graphs is very important. We propose an algorithm to calculate the diameter of such graphs. The main goal of this ...

estimating fetal weight in utero, for better management of pregnancy and appropriate timing of delivery especially in high-risk pregnancies is necessary. our purpose to evaluate a simple method in estimating fetal weight in iranian pregnant patients and also to compare was with a previous western study. this study was carried out in arash hospital, tehran university of medical sciences in 1996-...

the rehabilitation of sandy desertified land in various dryland ecosystems by different management practices has a great potential to increase aggregate stability and improve soil quality. however, plants in general may have a different ability to sustain soil. the objective was to determine the effects of reclamation practices including haloxylon ammodendron and atriplex canescens plantation o...

uniaxial compressive strength (ucs) and elastic properties of rocks play a major and vital role for the design of any engineering structure. the specimen diameter size is one of the main factors that influencing on ucs, elasticity modulus and poisson’s ratio (e and υ). here, an attempt has been made to investigate the effect of specimen diameter size on ucs, e and υ. moreover, we studied the co...

The main purpose of this paper is to study the approximate best proximity pair of cyclic maps and their diameter in fuzzy normed spaces defined by Bag and Samanta. First, approximate best point proximity points on fuzzy normed linear spaces are defined and four general lemmas are given regarding approximate fixed point and approximate best proximity pair of cyclic maps on fuzzy normed spaces. U...