the sepah-salar complex, including the mosque and the school, has a set of qajar era architectural art including tile-work, painting, inscription, stucco, woodwork and carpentry. the complex was made and endowed by hossein khan, known as sepah-salar (1241-1298 a.h/ 1825- 1882 a.d). he employed the best and the most famous artists and architectures of his era using his own asset. the inscription...

SalmonDB is a new multiorganism database containing EST sequences from Salmo salar, Oncorhynchus mykiss and the whole genome sequence of Danio rerio, Gasterosteus aculeatus, Tetraodon nigroviridis, Oryzias latipes and Takifugu rubripes, built with core components from GMOD project, GOPArc system and the BioMart project. The information provided by this resource includes Gene Ontology terms, met...

This study explored the relative competitive ability and performance of first-feeding growth hormone (GH) transgenic and non-transgenic Atlantic salmon Salmo salar fry under low food conditions. Pair-wise dominance trials indicated a strong competitive advantage for residents of a contested foraging territory. Transgenic and non-transgenic individuals, however, were equally likely to be dominan...

In the years 1999-2002, first studies were carried out on the metazoan parasites of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) recently reintroduced into the Elbe River drainage system, after more than 50 years after the complete extinction of the Elbe salmon population. A total of six helminth species were recorded from salmon smolts from three streams of the Elbe River basin (Kamenice River, Jestedský ...

In female Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), exposure to warm summer temperatures causes a reduction in plasma 17β-estradiol (E2), which impairs downstream vitellogenesis and zonagenesis, and reduces egg fertility and embryo survival. The aim of the present study was to determine whether E2-treatment could offset thermal impairment of endocrine function and maintain egg quality in maiden (first-tim...

6 [1] The primary goal of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation 7 Satellite (ICESat) mission is ice sheet elevation change 8 detection. Confirmation that ICESat is achieving its stated 9 scientific requirement of detecting spatially-averaged 10 changes as small as 1.5 cm/year requires continual 11 assessment of ICESat-derived elevations throughout the 12 mission. We use a GPS-derived digital elevat...