because of importance of morphological characteristics, canopy temperature and their relationship with grain yield in rice varieties, an experiment was conducted based on split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications in two years (2013-2014) at the college of agriculture, university of guilan. the experiment consisted of three transplanting times (5, 20 may and 5 june...

Dear Editor-in-Chief, We read with great interest the article entitled “A review of aluminium phosphide poisoning and a flowchart to treat it” written by Hashemi-Domeneh et al. (1) and recently published in the Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. The authors mentioned performing a gastric lavage using a solution of potassium permanganate (1/10000/1 g per 10 L) and administering activ...

in order to study the effects of foliar application of si (5/1000 ratio), k (2/1000 ratio) and zn (2/1000 ratio) on rice (cv. tarom hashem), an on-farm experiment carried out based on randomized complete block design with three replications in 2012. some traits such as paddy yield and yield components, neck blast disease and stem borer damage were evaluated. results showed that the effect of fo...

Carbon sequestration potential of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh and Acacia salicina Lindl planted in 1980 was studied at the age of 30 years in the elevation plain areas of Iran. Two station of this plantation in province were selected the sample plots and the diameter at breast height of all trees was measured. At least, there trees from each diameter class were randomly selected and cut and ...

A little more than a decade ago, the therapy of keratoconus was a waiting game: the typically young patient would over the years progress from needing spectacles to contact lenses. Many, a decade or two after diagnosis and progression of their disease, would then face a desperate need for keratoplasty to restore the diminishing vision. After all, spectacles, contact glasses or intracorneal ring...

The anatomy of the intrabony course of the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) is very important for dentists, neurologist, radiologists and pathologists to aid in diagnosis, treatment, planning surgery, and the application of local anesthesia (Polland et al., 2001). IAN damage negatively affects the quality of facial sensibility and the patient’s ability to translate patterns of altered nerve activi...

This issue of Current Oncology cuts a broad swath through highly topical subjects in cancer biology and cancer care. An article by Chasen and Dippenaar addresses the ever-increasing emphasis on dealing with cancer as a systemic disease, showing how to assure optimal care, the patient’s condition must be addressed in a multidisciplinary fashion, including dealing with nutritional concerns, rehab...

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in partnership with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) UK organized a two day Second International Congress on Publication Ethics at Shiraz from December 4-5th 2014. It was held in collaboration with Iranian Medical Journals Commission, Iranian Society of Medical Editors and National Committee for Ethics in Medical Research Dr. Behrooz Astaneh Ch...

rice is the world's most important food crop. to decrease the damage of  rice pests, development of insect pest management strategies in rice is necessary. biennial results for determination of a suitable method to control striped stem borer in rice showed that integration of two methods of control (biological and mechanical) is a feasible effort to reduce stem borer infestation. to assure...