Countries in Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) are considered as arid and semi-arid areas that are suffering from water scarcity. They are expected to have more water shortages problem due to climatic change. Iraq is located in the Middle East covering an area of 433,970 square kilometers populated by 31 million inhabitants. One of the solutions suggested to overcome water scarcity is ...

The present study attempts to introduce a method of statistical downscaling with a synoptic view. The precipitation data of Golestan Province has been used for the years 1971 to 2010. Employing multivariable regression, this study models the precipitation gauges in the station scale, by making use of 26 predicting components of model HadCM3, on the basis of two A2 and B2 scenarios. However, the...

Objective: To compare the mean body weights and mean absolute and relative liver weights (in Grams) of albino rats after tamoxifen and taurine treatment. Material and Methods: This prospective experimental study was conducted in the Department of Anatomy, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar from July 2011 to December 2011. Sixty adult female albino rats were divided into four groups (A-control, B-...

Partially purified thromboxane synthase from human platelets converted prostaglandin Gz to two products. These were transformed to 12-hydroxy-5,8,10heptadecatrienoic acid and thromboxane B2 by stannous chloride reduction and to 12-keto-5,8,10-heptadecatrienoic acid and 15-ketothromboxane Bz by lead tetraacetate dehydration. Trapping with methanol after short incubations of substrate with enzy...

Abstract Porphyry deposits are the main source for global Cu and Mo production. The generation of hydrous silicate magmas subsequent separation volatile-rich magmatic fluids with hydrothermal alteration significant processes leading to formation porphyry deposits. However, a specific understanding these has been limited by lack direct mineralogical records in evolving magmatic-hydrothermal syst...

Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to optimize pizza cheese containing carrot extract. The effects of two important independent variables including soybean oil (5%-20%) and carrot extract (5%-20%) were studied on physicochemical and textural properties of pizza cheese containing carrot extract. According to the results, RSM was successfully used for optimizing formulation of pizza chee...

A total of 324 Japanese rice accessions, including landrace, improved, and weedy types were used to 1) investigate genetic variations in blast resistance to standard differential isolates, and 2) across the genome using polymorphism data on 64 SSR markers. From the polymorphism data, the accessions were classified into two clusters,. Accessions from irrigated lowland areas were included mainly ...