The direction of the causality between energy consumption and income is an important issue in the fields of energy economics, economic growth, and policies toward energy use. The seminal work on the relations between energy consumption and aggregate income is Kraft and Kraft (1978). An extensive literature has followed on, including Akarca and Long (1980), Yu and Choi (1985), Erol and Yu (1988)...

alnus glutinosa, fraxinus excelsior and papaver rhoeas have long been used in folkloric medicine for the treatment of various ailments. as part of our continuing screening of plant extracts for activities, the extracts of a. glutinosa, f. excelsior and p. rhoeas have been screened for their antioxidant and antibacterial activities, as well as their general toxicity towards brine shrimps. among ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: findings demonstrated that parents of children with cancer experience elevated levels of distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and subjective symptoms of stress. in this study, we determined effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (mbct) on reduction of depression and anxiet...

abstract: introduction: this study was conducted to determine the outcomes of the project of ‘integration of breast cancer screening and early detection’ into primary health care (phc) system and to detect the incidence rate, mortality rate and the stage of reported breast cancers, during the timeframe of the project in shahre-kord. method: a prospective cohort study was conducted, reviewing me...

introduction:holmium-166 radionuclide is one of the most effective radionuclides used for targeted therapy with theranostic properties. one method to produce this radioisotope is via the decay of its parent (indirect method). in this study applicability of extraction chromatography (exc) for separation of no carrier added 166ho from neutron-irradiated natural dysprosium target followed by quali...

the aim of this study was to determine the formulation of silver carp fish cracker and checking qualitative changes of cracker in the four time intervals (0, 30, 60 and 90 days), during storage at room temperature. treatments consisted of dried cracker (drying time 2 hours), cracker were fried (drying time 1 hour) and the final treatment was drought cracker that fried at the end of each period....

the ability to maintain and study human tissues in in-vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. the most widely tissues have been xenografts established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. the aim of this study was to provide a new accurate and affordable method for the establishment of breast cancer xenograftin nude mice...

to compare the efficacy of acupressure wrist bands, ondansetron, metoclopramide and placebo in the prevention of vomiting and nausea after strabismus surgery. two hundred patients, asa physical status i or ii, aged between 10 and 60 years, undergoing strabismus surgery in farabi hospital in 2007-2008 years, were included in this randomized, prospective, double-blind and placebo-controlled study...