a 6-year-old lactating holstein cow with a history of repeat breeding syndrome (failed to conceive afterthree artificial inseminations (ai) with fertile semen) was referred to the veterinary teaching hospital of theschool of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. according to the history, neither abnormal clinical signs,nor uterine discharge had been observed subsequent to ai. the cow had show...

aims: it was aimed to investigate postoperative conformal radiotherapy planning that provides the best target volume and the least dose for critical organs in cancers of stomach. methods: this study was conducted on the ct simulation images of thirty patients diagnosed with gastric cancer. target volumes and the organs at risk were contoured. ap-pa reciprocal parallel field conventional plan an...

This paper presents a framework for assessing the fiscal condition index (FCI) and develops a concept to assess fiscal condition of governments and implements it into Iran government as an oil exporting country. The concept consists of four dimensions ­-revenue, expenditure, budget balance, and debt structure-and each dimension has its own indicators. There are seven indicators examined namely ...

Partial (or default) plans are plans that are constructed or applied without insuring that all support for the operators used in the plan is present in the planner's world model. Despite the apparent carelessness in their construction and application, partial plans are responsible for much of the efficiency of human problem solving. The ability to use partial plans relaxes some of the stringent...