during ramadan fasting quantity and quality of dietary intake may change. there was no data on nutrient patterns in ramadan fasting. the purpose of this study was to identify ramadan major nutrient patterns among those who fast in tehran, iran. 510 fasting people aged 18-65 years and bmi 18.5-40 kg/m2 were recruited in our study by 2-stage cluster sampling method in june-july 2014. data on the ...

fifteen kinds of local wetland plants in taihu lake region of china were investigated on their respective growth conditions, biomass allocations and nutrient uptake capacities. the test plants were cultured in 3 l nutrient solutions for 28 days with nh4 +-n, no3 --n and p concentrations of 38.5, 132.8 and 10 mg/l, respectively. mean species total biomass ranged from 1.2-21.6 g/plant with above/...

Alternate cycling of sludge in aerobic, anoxic, and anaerobic regimes is a promising strategy that can reduce the sludge yield of conventional activated sludge (CAS) by up to 50% with potentially lower capital and operating cost than physical- and/or chemical-based sludge minimisation techniques. The mechanisms responsible for reducing sludge yield include alterations to cellular metabolism and...

one of the goals of financial reporting is to provide the useful information in order to facilitate the decision making. accounting information system is of high importance for the users to make specific decisions. the information should be analyzed to present the valuable information to the investors so that in this paper, the relative content and return additive with cash recovery have been a...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of internal and external factors on the ratio of outstanding claims in those banks which are accepted in tehran stock exchange. for this purpose, we used the data obtained from 8 banks and credit institution active in the tehran stock exchange and using data regression panel.  the present survey was examined over the period 2011 till 2015. the ...

The average yield of fresh potato tubers per hectare is relatively low in China, partly due to poor nutrient management. Chronic inorganic N enrichment leads soil acidification, which deteriorates fertility. Straw residues are removed from the field or burnt during land preparation, resulting depletion and air pollution. However, these can be returned improve its Therefore, a two–year experimen...