congenital cutis laxa is an exceptional condition. no large scale pedigree has been reported from iran. we report a family with 106 members with two members affected with cutis laxa. our cases were two patients (male and female) with pre- and postnatal growth retardation, cutis laxa, characteristic facies and other manifestations which proved that they were affected with cutis laxa. their famil...

Inadequate body condition in wild animals (especially lactating and gestating females) may be caused by intense physiological stress, which compromises reproductive success, thereby reducing population growth rates. Our study troop of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) at the Shennongjia Nature Reserve were subjected to two different food provisioning patterns: (i) an interact...

conclusions these results emphasize that an inappropriate decision making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior in adolescents. the fathers’ parenting is more strongly linked to their sons’ delinquency. so, family power structure and parent-child relationship can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescents’ delinquency...

The external pollen morphology of the family Sapotaceae in Thailand was examined using acetolysis method to determine its taxonomic significance. Pollen 39 specimens belonging 32 species investigated by means light and scanning electron microscopy. grains are found be monads, isopolar, colporate, lalongate, variable size, shape, aperture number, colpus length exine thickness. Exine ornamentatio...

Problem statement: Image recognition was a challenging problem researchers had been research into this area for so long especially in the recent years, due to distortion, noise, segmentation errors, overlap and occlusion of objects in digital images. In our study, there are many fields concern with pattern recognition, for example, fingerprint verification, face recognition, iris discrimination...