Background: Listeria monocytogenes is an important Gram-positive disease-causing bacterium existing in milk and dairy products. Inhibitory effects of Mentha pulegium essential oil at concentrations of 0.03, 0.015, and 0.0075% on growth of L. monocytogenes were studied in Iranian white cheese during 60 days of storage. Methods: Essential oil of M. pulegium plant, collected from north of Iran,...

middle east is a strategic region because of its abundant oil reserves, hostile struggles among the countries, and threat of the radical groups. the countries of this region spend a large amount of their annual budgets on buying weapons and war armaments. the purpose of this paper is to study the impact of military expenditures on economic growth of oil and non-oil middle east countries by a dy...

in order to study impacts of organic manure levels and inoculation with mycorrhiza fungi on growth, quantitative and qualitative yield of hyssop (hyssopus officinalis l.), a field experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during two growing seasons of 2009-2010 a...

International conflicts cause global energy price fluctuations and supply disruptions, which can threaten security economic growth in energy-importing countries, including China. However, the implications impact mechanisms of international on economy oil-importing countries have been poorly explored. Using US sanctions Iran as a case, energy-extended computable general equilibrium model, GTAP-E...

Recognition of economic growth determinants is one of the most important concerns for economists. In the oil exporting countries oil revenues play a significant role for the economy alongside with other economic growth determinants. This paper attempts to investigate the role of oil in selected oil-revenue dependent economies. Since oil revenue goes directly to public treasury and is expended b...

a total of 700 day old female broiler chicks (ross 308) were distributed into seven groupsin acompletely randomized designwith five replicates, and 20 chicks in each replicate. dietary treatments, timeof the switch from an unsaturated sunflower oil (sfo) to a saturated tallow (t)dietary fat source, were: 1) sfo for the entire growth period (6 weeks), 2) sfo for 5 weeks followed byt for last wee...

empirical evidence seems to indicate that economic growth has varied inversely with natural resource abundance across countries, in which high natural resources dependent economies experience the low economic growth. this paper first reviews the literature of resources curse and shows that the most important challenges of economic development of iran are those mechanisms that change the blessin...

Middle East is a strategic region because of its abundant oil reserves, hostile struggles among the countries, and threat of the radical groups. The countries of this region spend a large amount of their annual budgets on buying weapons and war armaments. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of military expenditures on economic growth of oil and non-oil Middle East countries by a dy...