abdominal mass is one of the commonest clinical findings in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate abdominal masses in different age groups in a referral children surgical center. we retrospectively reviewed records of 325 patients (57% boys, mean age 37.7 months) admitted to amir kabir hospital in period of 12 years for abdominal mass surgery. the 4 most common abdominal masses wa...

the purposes of this article are studying the effects of oxygen presence on waste wood pyrolysis process in order to produce bio-char. to reach the goal, cubic samples of size 2.5 cm pyrolized at 300 and 400 °c. the surface and center temperatures of samples were measured and their mass losses were calculated from the ratio of pyrolized mass to initial mass of the sample. increase in temperatur...