inhabitants of 4 districts in the city of kermanshah, the capital of province, living under various socio- economic conditions, were examined for infection with intestinal helminthiasis. two of these districts were close to and the other two far from a small stream running through the city and serving as an unsanitary sewage system. a total of 889 persons in different sex and age groups from th...

Our understanding of the evolution of domestication has changed radically in the past 10 years, from a relatively simplistic rapid origin scenario to a protracted complex process in which plants adapted to the human environment. The adaptation of plants continued as the human environment changed with the expansion of agriculture from its centres of origin. Using archaeogenomics and computationa...

This study was carried out to isolate chemical constituents from the lipid enriched fraction of Ganoderma lucidum extract and to evaluate their anti-proliferative effect on tumor cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Ergosterol derivatives (1-14) were isolated and purified from the lipid enriched fraction of G. lucidum. Their chemical structures were established by spectros...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...

This research derives paleostress tensors for deformation affecting late Cretaceous rocks between Amman and Al-Hallabat, northern Jordan reconstructs the region's tectonic history. Three distinct formations are exposed in investigated area: Wadi As Sir (Turonian), Umm Ghudran (Santonin), silicified limestone (Campanian). The stress inversion is derived from data collected on fault-slip at four ...