(paper pages 133-156) zagros active fold-thrust belt lies on the northern margin of the arabian continental crust it is a young fold-thrust mountain belt currently shortening, thickening and uplifting as a result of the collision of the arabian and iranian plates. rethickening of crust during collisional orogenies could have been carried out by reversal of fault motion along the mesozoic normal...

The easternmost record of Macratria Newman, 1838 from Fiji is presented, and M. fijiana sp. nov. described illustrated. Biogeographical patterns diversity Pacific Macratriinae are briefly discussed. Additionally, a new genus rank synonymy in proposed: Thambospasta Werner, 1974 syn. Salimuzzamania Abdullah, 1968. New combination made for howdeni (Werner, 1974) comb. (from Thambospasta).

in this study which was carried out in 1974 in isphahan, 3,000 married women between the ages of 15 to 44 who were the residents of the city of isphahan and a similar group of women who were residents of the villages surrounding the city were interviewed. results indicate that the average and the median of age at the first marriage had been increasing steadily since 1959 for the city women and ...

BACKGROUND The short and long term variability of the interrupter technique was assessed to determine whether interrupter resistance is a stable individual characteristic over time. The effect of field and standardised measurement conditions on the within-subject variability of the interrupter technique was also examined. METHODS The interrupter technique was studied under field and standardi...

BACKGROUND The human foot has to bear loads during all kinds of bipedal locomotion throughout the whole life. Rapid developmental changes of foot morphology and foot function occur during the first years of walking. Furthermore, disease dependent modifications can also have an influence on plantar loading. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that foot function will undergo changes in life. Ho...

Using a novel experimental system that allows control of the matric potential of an agar slab, we explored the hydration conditions under which swarming motility is possible. If there is recognition that this physical parameter is a key determinant of swarming, it is usually neither controlled nor measured rigorously but only manipulated through proxies, namely, the agar concentration and the d...

The aim of this study was to investigate possible changes in the gas composition and acid-base values of bovine venous blood samples stored at different temperatures (+4, 22 and 37 degrees C) for up to 48 h. Five healthy cattle were used in the study. A total of 15 blood samples collected from the animals were allocated into three groups, which were, respectively, then stored in a refrigerator ...

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has monitored global gravity changes since 2002. Gravity changes are considered to represent hydrological water mass movements around the surface of the globe, although fault slip of a large earthquake also causes perturbation of gravity. Since surface water movements are expected to affect earthquake occurrences via elastic surface load or po...

Introduction Low dosage insulin regimens for diabetic "comas" have recently attracted considerable attention (Alberti, Hockaday and Turner, 1973; Page et al, 1974; Kidson et al, 1974; Semple, White and Manderson, 1974). These regimans have all originated from established diabetic centres, however the simplicity of these regimens, especially the intra muscular regimen (Alberti et al, 1973), woul...

covered by water ice [Pilcher et al., 1972]. No evidence of gaseous absorption was detected [Fink et al., 1973], but the occultation experiment on Pioneer 10 indicated the presence of a very thin atmosphere on Io [Kliore et al., 1974a, b]. This satellite was also found to be the source of intense sodium emission [Brown, 1973] and seems to be surrounded by a cloud of sodium atoms whose distribut...