through risk assessment process, it is necessary to identify, analyze, and prioritize systematically all environmental impacts of industries which have high destructive potentiality as well as representation of a mitigation plan. the current study aims at identification and prioritization of risks and impacts caused by abadan gas power plant. all kinds of the operational risks of the power plan...

Environmental risks threaten a large population and are more dreadful than personal risks that bring physical or health problems to individuals. To assess the neurocognitive processes involved in environmental risk identification, we recorded brain activities, using event-related potential (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), from human adults while they identified risky and ...

Corn is one of humankind’s earliest innovations. It was domesticated 10,000 years ago when humans learned to cross-pollinate plants and slowly turned a scraggly nondescript grass called teosinte into plump, productive modern corn (Figure 1). As needs change, so does plant breeding. Today, while biotech super-giants manipulate corn genetics to satisfy farmer desires and a global market, indigeno...

complex inherited diseases affected by an interaction between collective effects of the genotype at one or multiple loci either to increase or to lower susceptibility to disease, combined with a variety of environmental exposures that may trigger, accelerate, exacerbate, or protect against the disease process. the new aspects of genetic techniques have been opened for diagnosis and analysis of ...