T he combination of abnormal glucose tolerance, central adiposity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, and coronary artery disease is together referred to as the metabolic syndrome or the insulin resistance syndrome. A sedentary lifestyle, polygenic inheritance, and abnormal intrauterine programming are but some of the hypotheses put forward to explain the syndrome, the central underlying feature of w...

sRaw measurements are feasible in children from 2 years of age. sRaw allows clinical monitoring and research during this critical period of growth and development in early life. sRaw measurements promise to bridge the gap of lung function measurements between infancy and school age.

to evaluate general and specific combining ability for resistance to bolting and cercospora leaf spot, 36 hybrids derived from crosses between 9 sugar beet lines along with four checks were planted in safiabad agricultural research center (dezful) in 2008-2009. the experimental design was a triple lattice design with three replications. analysis of variance showed significant differences among ...

rust diseases continue to cause significant losses to wheat production around the world. among them, yellow rust caused by puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is an important disease that threatens wheat production in most cool environments. host resistance, especially race- nonspecific resistance, is the most economical way to manage wheat stripe rust disease. in this study, the effectiveness ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of combination specific resistance and ordinary swimming  training on breaststroke swimming  performance in young boys. twenty boys of alborz  province  swimming team age of 13±1 years ,weight 50/ 65±1/02kg and height 159/8 ±4/91cm, participated in this study. after the initial testing of the performance variable (fifty-meter record of breas...

Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, a fulminant disease that is often fatal without antimicrobial treatment. Plasmid (IncA/C)-mediated multidrug resistance in Y. pestis was reported in 1995 in Madagascar and has generated considerable public health concern, most recently because of the identification of IncA/C multidrug-resistant plasmids in other zoonotic pathogens. Here, we demo...

A plasmid was found in Nocardia orientalis (formerly Streptomyces orientalis). Physical characterization of the plasmid DNA indicates a size of 33.5 kb and a single cleavage site for EcoR I. The presence of plasmid, and variation in its copy member, did not directly affect vancomycin resistance or production levels. The plasmid represents the first to be isolated and characterized from a glycop...