OBJECTIVE To assess agreement between planned lung resections and the type subsequently performed on a series of patients, to assess whether tumor location (central or peripheral) affected the degree of discrepancy, and, in the case of unscheduled pneumonectomies, to examine why the planned resection had to be extended. METHOD Prospective, observational clinical study of 199 patients schedule...

With the objective of identifying concerns, attitudes, and opinions meat buyers their relationship with choice place purchase (supermarkets, free fair, or butchers), 381 consumers in city Garanhuns, Brazil, were interviewed. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics discriminant analysis, complemented by stepwise regression, Wilks’ Lambda test, Fisher’s linear test. Most responde...

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae), vector of citrus greening disease pathogen, Huanglongbing (HLB), is considered the most serious pest of citrus in the world. Prior molecular based studies have hypothesized a link between the D. citri in Iran and the USA (Florida). The purpose of this study was to collect morphometric data from D. citri populations...

the aim of this research is to analyze the environmental principals which are used for land use planning of iranian communities in order to determine whether they are sufficient and efficient for conserving and improving the quality of urban environments or not. first, the environmental principals were extracted from municipal local plans (community plans) of the spatial planning systems of ira...

I am somewhat abashed to say, right at the start of this piece, that I don’t think of myself as a cell biologist—any more than as a geneticist or biochemist. One of the great glories of our field is that it is bursting the dam and flooding the plains. Cell biologists investigate not just the cell but also the whole organism and its ecosystem, and peer, with revelation, at individual molecules. ...