the exponential growth of urbanization leads to increase in severity of environmental problemsespecially assonated with disposal of solid waste. with considering the increasing rate of solid waste generation in urban area, the problem of availability of space required to dispose it off is become a concern for planners and administrators of urban local bodies (ulb). in order to cope up with the ...

BACKGROUND Obesity rates in the United States have risen consistently over the last four decades, increasing from about 13% of the population in 1970 to more than 34% in 2009. Dietary fructose has been blamed as a possible contributor to the obesity increase, although the consumption pattern of fructose and other key nutrients during this 40 year period remains a topic of debate. Therefore, we ...

Measurements of dairy manure nutrient availability to crops typically show great variability. Approaches that are more accurate are needed to improve manure management and reduce nutrient loss to the environment. In this study, we compared direct (15N recovery) and indirect (difference method [Diff Meth] and fertilizer equivalence [FE] approach) methods of determining first-year dairy manure N ...

this study was conducted in khorasan-razavi during 23 months (since february 2004 to december 2005). the samples (83 samples) of suspected farms were collected from tongue and mouth epithelium and tested by indirect sandwich elisa and rt-pcr. during the study, twelve foci during the year 2004 and 23 foci during the year 2005 (up to december) were approved. maximum distribution of fmd foci was o...

abstract this study carried out on 194 fish (garra rufa) during the months of january to march at eight stations in dinvar river located at kermanshah province. during this study, 34 attributes and 11 traits count was measured geometric parameters and natural mortality and total amount 0.346, infinite length l∞=124.57 mm, growth factor k=0.29 and the length and weight of the exponential functio...

The effects of combined hyperglycemia-hyperinsulinemia on whole body, splanchnic, and leg fatty acid metabolism were determined in five volunteers. Catheters were placed in a femoral artery and vein and a hepatic vein. U-13C-labeled fatty acids were infused, once in the basal state and, on a different occasion, during infusion of dextrose (clamp; arterial glucose 8.8 ± 0.5 mmol/l). Lipids and h...