AIM To study the trend of hepatocellular carcinoma incidence after correcting the misclassification in registering cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Incidence data of hepatocellular carcinoma were extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration reports 2004 to 2008. A Bayesian method was implemented to estimate the rate of misclassificati...

We surveyed Karen hilltribe villages in the Mae Chaem District of Chiang Mai Province between April and May 2001. Two hundred and forty-nine pre-school children were selected by stratified sampling from 10 villages and were examined for Enterobius vermicularis eggs by the Scotch tape perianal examination technique. One hundred and thirteen (53 boys and 60 girls) were found to have E. vermicular...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support and the trait emotional intelligence with the entrepreneurial behavior of employees in jihad-e keshavarzi organization of fars province. the research method used was a survey and descriptive- correlation techniques. statistical population of this study consisted of 110 experts in jihad-e- agri...

During periods of endemic meningococcal disease, serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis is responsible for a significant percentage of invasive diseases, and no particular clone or strain predominates (F. E. Ashton and D. A. Caugant, Can. J. Microbiol. 47: 293-289, 2001), However, in the winter of 2004 to 2005, a cluster of serogroup B meningococcal disease occurred in one region in the province of...

Identification of Quantitative Trait Transcripts for Growth 1 Traits in the Large Scales of Liver and Muscle Samples 2 3 Xinwei Xiong, Hui Yang, Bin Yang, Congying Chen, Lusheng Huang* 4 5 Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of 6 Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China. 7 8 Running head: quantitative trait transcript...

To explore small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing identifying technology for horticultural crop diseases, and to combine it with small UAV spraying, the peach leaf blade was taken as material, the peach shot-hole disease was taken as object for spectral capture, and the intellectualized identifying and precision control system for horticultural crop diseases were developed, mainly i...

Epiplatys atratus, a new species of the E. multifasciatus group, is described from specimens collected from several tributaries of the middle Lulua River, a tributary of the Kasaï River, south of Kananga (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kasaï Occidental Province). Epiplatys atratus is the south-eastern most representative of the genus. Large adult E. atratus males differ from all congeners in...

introduction more and better production of food is one of the necessities of today's world. since production of agricultural products of one region depends on the air and climatic factors, it is important to examine the role of climate in agriculture (mohammadi et al., 2004: 123). in relation to agroclimatology, numerous studies by different scientists and agricultural climatologists have ...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.07.008 q This work was supported in part by the National Science Council under contract number NSC-99-2916-I-011-002-A1, and it was also partially supported by the 111 Project under the Grant No. 111-2-14 and One Hundred Person Project 2012, Sichuan Province. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mai...

The southern African species of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann, 1794, are revised. Twenty-eight new species are described, and redescriptions and new collection records are given for three previously described species, based on the examination and databasing of 11,534 specimens from 488 localities/events. Male genitalia are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holoty...