pistachio is one of the most important export items in iran, comprising more than 23% of iran non-oil exports. yazd is considered as the second biggest province of iran from the viewpoint of pistachio production, standing after kerman province. since frostbite phenomenon, especially, strong spring frostbite, has incurred many damages into pistachio gardens of this area, it is necessary to study...

over the last two decades there have been numerous reports from different seismically active regions of the world that thermal infrared (tir) anomalies can be identified around the epicentral areas before major earthquakes [e.g. (tronin et al., 2002)]. the tir anomalies reportedly appear as early as 14 to 7 days before the seismic events and affect areas as large as 1000s to 100,000s km2 in siz...

Weninger and colleagues, 1 in this issue of Circulation Research, have simply and elegantly reported on a piece of fundamental arterial biology totally unexplored before: the developmental origins of the intima in the siphon of the internal carotid artery. This site was chosen for study because the parasellar internal carotid artery in adults has the unwelcome fate of being highly prone to athe...

the mixture of natural and artificial seismic sources with random distributions cause diffuse wave field with random amplitudes and phases called noise. when noise is analyzed in a long-term process, it contains surface waves which are spread in all directions. thus, ambient noise contains data relevant to the surface waves. in recent years, as broadband seismic networks have been distributed v...

This study investigates the ability of human plasmaderived lipid transfer protein to facilitate lipid transfer to and from intact viable cells in culture. Mouse peritoneal macrophages or 5774 macrophages were preincubated with acetylated low density lipoprotein and [3H]oleate/albumin to promote the intracellular synthesis and accumulation of cholesteryl [ 3H]oleate and 3H-labeled triglyceride. ...

kuhbanan fault is in southeast margin of micro continent of iran between tabas and yazd blocks. it directed from northwest of kerman to northwest of bahabad east of bafgh (yazd). its length is about 300 km and its overall direction in iran is in southeast – northwest. this fault has caused many historical deadly earthquake and is recently more active at its southeast part near zarand city. the ...