rice is a main food for iranian people and has an important role in providing food security. regarding the population growth, increase of rice production and reduction of losses have special importance in prevention of rice import. rice losses in the harvest stage are the highest through the whole production period of this crop and hence the reduction of these losses is necessary. provision of ...

Suvarnaprashan is ancient oral vaccination technique describe Ayurvedic texts. Delayed in acquiring language are most common symptoms of childhood developmental disability affecting around 5 to 10% all children. The effectiveness various disabilities children was reported earlier studies. However, its for with pure delayed speech and disorder without any associated difficulties not studied prev...

Problems occur regularly with intravenous therapy, especially with the flow behavior. A mechanical model can predict which components of intravenous therapy systems introduce non-ideal effects in the flow. This study concentrates on gaining quantitative information of each separate component for intravenous therapy, characterize its non-ideal effects and combine these quantities in one system-l...

An idea for a new combination therapy will be described herein. It is a proposition to combine viral and bacterial anticancer therapies and make them fight cancer in concert. We analyzed biological anticancer therapies and found overlapping advantages and disadvantages which led us to the conclusion that the combination therapy has the potential to create a new therapeutic quality. It is surpri...

Advanced colorectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, with a 5-year survival rate of only 12% for patients with the metastatic disease. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as the antibodies inhibiting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis, are among the most promising immunotherapies for patients with advanced colon cancer, but their durable response rate remains low. We herein report the use of immunogenic nanopa...

Alternative medicine is becoming more accepted by conventional medical practitioners as beneficial for patients because 62% of adult patients try some form of alternative treatment. 1 In recent years, many medical professionals have begun implementing integrative strategies to treat their patients: such strategies employ both traditional and alternative treatment methods. 1 Studies conducted by...

The procedures for classical and operant conditioning, and for many timing procedures, involve the delivery of reinforcers that may be related to the time of previous reinforcers and responses, and to the time of onsets and terminations of stimuli. The behavior resulting from such procedures can be described as bouts of responding that occur in some pattern at some rate. A packet theory of timi...

Males and females of nearly all animals differ in their body size, a phenomenon called sexual size dimorphism (SSD). The degree and direction of SSD vary considerably among taxa, including among populations within species. A considerable amount of this variation is due to sex differences in body size plasticity. We examine how variation in these sex differences is generated by exploring sex dif...