Objectives: Although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in Iran and many other countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant’s breastfeeding behavior. Materials and Meth...

Despite the use of conventional physical and chemotherapeutic agents for caries management, dental caries still continues to be the most prevalent oral infectious disease. Thus, there is a need of additional caries prevention approaches. Strain replacement therapy is one such novel approach. In this, relatively avirulent strains of Streptococcus mutans produced by recombinant DNA technology are...

For a graph G and any two vertices u and v in G, let d(u, v) denote the distance between u and v and let diam(G) be the diameter of G. A multilevel distance labeling (or radio labeling) for G is a function f that assigns to each vertex of G a positive integer such that for any two distinct vertices u and v, d(u, v)+ | f(u) − f(v) |≥ diam(G) + 1. The largest integer in the range of f is called t...

Hierarchical optical interconnection networks have the potential of solving the communication bottleneck that has evolved in parallel processing systems due big increases in processor speeds. Hierarchical Optical Ring Interconnection Network (HORN) [12] is one network architecture that was proposed to provide scalability to a larger number of processing nodes (PNs) with low latency and high ban...

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Under the harsh environmental conditions present in severely overgrazed, semiarid rangelands, facilitator plants offer a promising tool for ecological restoration. This study investigated facilitative effects of Aloe secundiflora—a native drought-tolerant, unpalatable, thorny shrub—on grass establishment in degraded rangelands in Kenya. We planted native perennial grass seeds adjacent to three ...