present paper is a translation of the travelogue of sefer muratowicz, the armenian-origin polish merchant and traveler who made a journey to persia in 1602. apart from translation, we would provide, in present article, some codicological information and a content review.  because one of the travelogue versions has been corrected by tadeusz juda krusiński, his footnotes are cited as well. in pre...

The efficiency of conventional stratification methods for seed germination of walnut (Juglans regia L.), which uses long moist-chilling periods, is low. This experiment was conducted during winter to spring 2014 to optimize the seed germination of walnut ‘Chandler’ via changing growing media and removing seed mechanical dormancy. Fourteen treatments were tested. None of the seeds germi...

a total of twenty local and foreign maize (zea mays l.) hybrids in five different maturity group were studied in mashhad for two years (2007-2008). temperature variations were created by two planting dates (5 may and 20 may). results indicated that both indices, gdd and chu, estimated heat units of different maturity hybrids and based on, created similar groups of hybrids. both indices showed s...

this study was conducted to investigate performance of native chickens produced in the centre of production and breeding of native chicken of isfahan in rural areas of isfahan province by using 1440 native pullets with age of 45 days in 4 towns and 2 climate zone of warm and cold. this study employed by coworking 60 rural families that 24 pullets with age of 45 days with ratio of 5 hen to 1 roo...

in order to have spatial and temporal analysis of iran extreme cold days' trend, the average of daily temperature data from 663 synoptic and climatologic stations of iran during the period of 1961/21/03 to 2004/19/03 were used. then, temperature data on 15*15 kilometer pixels were interpolated using kriging method for iran. the extreme cold days were identified by normalized temperature di...

Psychological stress has attracted much interest as a potential modulator of response control processes. However, especially in dual-task situations, the effect of psychological stress is less understood. In the current study we investigated these effects. "Thirty six" healthy young male participants were exposed to stress applying the socially evaluated cold pressor task (SECPT) or a control c...