BACKGROUND Despite Echinococcus granulosus, there are merely two old reports of E. multilocularis infection among Iranian canids of Moghan Plain, the only area known endemic for the species. We detected specific DNA markers in fecal samples by PCR (Copro-PCR) for differential diagnosis of Echinococcus species in living canids. METHODS Totally 144 fecal samples from domestic dogs, red foxes an...

The effect of monetary policy on the farm sector remains controversial. Studies attempting to quantify the effects of monetary disturbances on real farm prices report conflicting results: some find that positive monetary shocks increase real farm prices in the short run, while others detect no such effect. We offer a resolution of these conflicting findings by re-estimating existing models on a...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

In the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion we show the following equivalence: If an efficient path has constant (gross and net of population growth) savings rates, then population growth must be quasi-arithmetic and the path is a maximin or a classical utilitarian optimum. Conversely, if a path is optimal according to maximin or classical utilitaria...

We describe a novel case of simultaneous karyotypic abnormality of isochromosome 17q [i(17)(q10)/ i(17q)] and a molecular aberration of mutated SETBP1 in a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patient with a poor prognosis. A 61-year-old Chinese man was admitted to the Hospital of Lanzhou University for evaluation of pancytopenia. Based on bone marrow studies, he was diagnosed with MDS-RCMD (2008 WHO...

BACKGROUND The effective delivery of coenzyme Q10 (Q10) to the skin has several benefits in therapy for different skin pathologies. However, the delivery of Q10 to deeper layers of skin is challenging due to low aqueous solubility of Q10. Liposomes and solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) have many advantages to accomplish the requirements in topical drug delivery. This study aims to evaluate the in...

The work presented in this paper is to evaluate the performance of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model in capturing word correlations within text by including domain information in the process. The performance of the model is empirically evaluated by classification of Hindi text. The accuracies of classification are compared against plain LSA. An increase of 1.25% classification accuracy is ac...