The Rise in the U.S. Dollar The value of the dollar has climbed steadily over much of the past two years (Chart 1). The dollar’s rise through August 1998 represents more than a 20 percent appreciation over its average value in the 1991-95 period and more than a 30 percent strengthening relative to its unusually weak performance in April 1995. This large appreciation is reminiscent of the apprec...

this research was conducted for the purpose of studying the effect of caf2 content in the composition of hotmetal pretreatment flux, based on lime. it was followed in regards to the importance of fluorine amount decrease in hot metal pretreatment and steel making processes. for this purpose, lime based fluxes including 40, 30, 20 and 10 percent calcium fluoride were prepared and hot metal pretr...

Analysis was made of 20 patients with endobronchial tuberculosis proven by fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchial biopsy. Unlike prechemotherapy reports, the disease affects the older age group and more men. Only one half of the patients had fever, and the characteristic localized wheeze was found in 15 percent of cases. Chest roentgenogram showed typical collapse-consolidation in most cases; ho...

abstract in order to evaluate chemical control of bermudagrass (cynodon dactylon (l.) pers.) on mixture turf: (lolium perenne 20%,poa pratensis.20%,festuca arundinacea 20% and festuca rubra commutata 40%), an experiment was conducted during 2006 in tehran, using randomized complete block design with 4 replications and 11 treatments. treatments were diclpfop methyl at 900 and 1080 g a.i. ha-1, f...

Three inhalation formulations of ICI 204,219 were compared for antagonism of antigen-induced bronchoconstriction in 16 subjects with asthma who demonstrated reproducible hypersensitivity to allergen during screening challenges. Each subject received a single 0.2-mg dose of each formulation and was challenged with ragweed 30 min after administration of ICI 204,219 until the forced expiratory vol...