the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

Recently Kamiyama, Katoh, and Takizawa have shown a theorem on packing arc-disjoint arborescences that is a proper extension of Edmonds’ theorem on disjoint spanning branchings. We show a further extension of their theorem, which makes clear an essential rôle of a reachability condition played in the theorem. The right concept required for the further extension is “convexity” instead of “reacha...

The clam Meretrix meretrix Linnaeus (M. meretrix, Veneridae), is a popular edible shellfish with abundant nutrition and valuable medical properties widely distributed in eastern Asia. As a kind of popular sea food diet, many bioactive components such as peptides, proteins, enzymes, polysaccharide, minerals, essential vitamins, essential amino acids and enzyme inhibitors, have been purified from...

Nowadays the growth of deserts is one the most important problems in Iran. This phenomenon has many reasons such as growth of population, global changes in the climates and many undesirable consequences such as the erosion of agricultural soils and immigration of rural people to urban regions mainly to the capital of Iran, Tehran. Isfahan province is one of the semi-arid and desert regions in t...