purpose: to report a young patient with microphthalmos associated with bilateral papillomacular fold and severe hyperopia case report: in this observational case report, a sixteen-year-old young man was referred with high hyperopia to al-zahra eye hospital, zahedan university of medicalf sciences, zahedan, iran, for check up. spherical error in right eye (re) was +14.75 d and in the left eye (l...

Michael D. Jennions and Anders Pape Møller School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama, and Laboratoire d’Ecologie Evolutive Parasitaire, CNRS FRE 2365, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Bât. A, 7ème étage, 7 quai St. Bernard, Case 237, F-75252 Paris Cedex 5, Fr...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of age and sex on the fleece characteristics of 40 Iranian indigenous Khorasan goats. Goats were divided into two different sex and age (kids and adults) groups. Fiber characteristics under study were: fleece weight, fiber length, lock length, fiber diameter, coefficient of fiber diameter, breaking load, resistance, elongation, hair percentage...

Microstructured metallic devices will play a vital role in the continuing search to manipulate the passage of electromagnetic radiation relevant to optical, microwave, and communication technologies. Here, we investigate the electromagnetic response of a completely novel and ultrathin (<< wavelength) structure within which is buried a metal-clad waveguiding layer ("core") of subwavelength width...

We present a measurement of the deuterium to hydrogen ratio (D/H) in a metal-poor absorption system at redshift z = 2.504 towards the QSO 1009+2956. We apply the new method of Burles & Tytler (1997) to robustly determine D/H in high resolution Lyα forest spectra, and include a constraint on the neutral hydrogen column density determined from the Lyman continuum optical depth in low resolution s...

Background & Aims of the Study: Particulate matters less than 10 microns can absorb into your lungs and reacting with the moisture and enter the circulatory system directly through the airways. The aim of this study is to assess Behavior PM 10 data in different seasons and Determination effects on human health in Ahvaz city during 2013. Materials & Methods: Data Particulate matters less than 10...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus (HBV) can be transmitted by blood donors and organ donors who are positive for antibody to HBV core antigen (anti-HBc) but negative for all other HBV markers. Therefore, we evaluated the risk of infection for babies of mothers with this serostatus. METHODS A total of 2365 HBV surface antigen (HBsAg)-negative pregnant women were included in the study and screened f...