Asexual reproduction is one of the most important traits in the evolutionary history of corals. No real-time observations of asexual reproduction in azooxanthellate solitary scleractinian corals have been conducted to date. Here, we describe previously unknown aspects of asexual reproduction by using Truncatoflabellum spheniscus (Family Flabellidae) based on observations of transverse division ...

Data logics are logical formalisms that are used to specify properties on structures equipped with data (data words, data trees, runs from counter systems, timed words, etc.). In this survey talk, we shall see how satisfiability problems for such data logics are related to reachability problems for counter systems (including counter automata with errors, vector addition systems with states, etc...

  Background: Poisoning is one of the main causes of visits to emergency departments and hospitals in Iran. Drug and Poison Information Centers (DPIC) are reliable sources to guide poisoned patients and provide information about pharmaceutical agents. This study was designed to analyze recorded phone calls to Iran DPICs during 2011-2012. Methods: This was a retrospective study on phone calls to...

In this demo, we present a prototype of a main memory database system which provides a wide range of temporal operators featuring predictable and interactive response times. Much of real-life data is temporal in nature, and there is an increasing application demand for temporal models and operations in databases. Nevertheless, SQL:2011 has only recently overcome a decade-long standstill on stan...

Abstract: On December 2010, the government of Iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the Targeted Subsidy Reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. The objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on Iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from I...

background: this study aimed to investigate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of patients with hydatid cyst during 2011 to 2014. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in khorasan razavi province, the northeast of iran, from 2011 to 2014. the study population was all cases with hydatid cyst who diagnosed in governmental and private laboratories, hospitals and health centers (...

Although the 2011 uprisings in Egypt led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, they have not yet been able to change the nature of the country’s political system. A year after the country’s first non-military president took office, Egypt’s political situation became more or less similar to the way it had been before 2011. The structure of the relationship between the state and the society in Egypt, hig...

abstract background: medical malpractices in obstetrics are one of the main health concerns since in addition to the mortalities and morbidities caused for the two susceptible groups of mothers and neonates, they may lead to difficulties for the accused gynecologists and midwives in returning to their routine medical career and giving services to the patients. hence, this study was conducted to...