a major portion of the iranian fig (ficus carica) industry is located in high-salinity regions, and salinity is an important limiting factor in the production of this fruit. the present study was conducted to investigate the changes of leaf antioxidant-enzyme activity, proline and total protein content in two fig cultivars with two leaf shapes: ‘anjir sabz’ with lobate and palmate leaves, and ‘...

this article deals with the engineering education of mechatronic in the different universities of canada, while every educational aspect of their curriculum is described in detail. this study shows that the desing of any educational program to some extend depends on the department where the program is carried out and the cooperation and help of the other departments. it seems that gradually thi...

this paper describes the impact of the distance and the size of the corona ring, on the magnitude anddistribution of electrical potential across the polymer insulators. the procedure is based on finiteelement method numerical analysis and stochastic optimization algorithm of differential evolution(de). the optimal selection of corona ring has a significant impact on the control of potential and...

We investigated the relationship between electrical alternans and cardiac electrical stability in a series of 20 dog experiments and in a pilot clinical study. Electrical alternans was detected in both the QRS complex and the ST-T wave by use of a novel multidimensional spectral technique. The magnitude of the alteration was expressed as the alternating electrocardiographic morphology index (AE...

the unilateral or bilateral lesion of the substantia nigra pars compacta (snc) by chemical neurotoxins such as 6-hydroxy dopamine (6-ohda) or 1- methyl-4- phenyl -1,2,3,6 – tetirahydro pyridine (mptp) are the most commonly and the main used methods for generating the animal models of parkinson’s disease (pd). but these agents are expensive, dangerous, difficult to use and inaccessible convenien...

SARNA, S. K., AND E. E. DANIEL. Electrical stimulation of gastric electrical control activity. Am. J. Physiol. 225(l): 125-131. 1973.Gastric electrical control activity in anesthetized dogs was stimulated by voltage pulses of 100 msec duration and lto 25-v amplitude. The gastric control waves could be entrained from any site in the electrically active region on the anterior and posterior sides....

this study was conducted to determine the causes and outcomes of burn in patients referred to shahid mohammadi hospital in bandar abbass, southern iran, in which 212 burned patients were assessed from march 2007 to march 2008 .mean age of patients was 22.14 yr. heat contact was the main cause of burn with 92.5%. 49.1% of total burns occurred among less than 20 yr old people. mortality rate was ...

joint flexibility is a very important factor to consider in the controller design for robot manipulators if high performance is expected. most of the research works on control of flexible-joint robots in literature have ignored the actuator dynamics to avoid complexity in controller design. the problem of designing nonlinear controller for a class of single-link flexible-joint robot manipulator...

cross linking of high density polyethylene (hdpe) was first performed via high energy10 mev electron beam (eb) irradiation. hdpe was also cross linked withdicumyle peroxide (dcp).the gel content of samples was determined by solvent extraction.degree of cross linking was evaluated by hot set apparatus; as well .in order to clarify the effectof nature of cross linking, correlation of electrical p...