background: celiac disease (cd) has been found in up to 10% of the patients presenting with unexplained abnormal liver function tests (lft). as there is no precise data from our country in this regard, we investigated the prevalence of cd in patients presenting with abnormal lft. methods: from 2003 to 2008, we measured iga anti-tissue transglutaminase (t-tg) antibody (with elisa technique) with...

<!!!!!!!! THOMAS, E. and VAREKAMP, J.C, 1991. Paleo-environmental analyses of marsh sequences (Clinton, Connecticut): evidence for punctuated rise in relative sealevel during the latest Hol ocene. Journal of Coastal Research, SI #11, 125-158. Fort Lauderdale (Florida). ISSN 0749 0208. We developed an integrated chemical-faunal approach to paleo-environmental analysis of salt marsh sequences. Se...

Many sea level rise adaptation plans emphasize the protection of adjacent uplands to allow for inland salt marsh migration, but little empirical information exists on this process. Using aerial photos from 1930 and 2006 of Delaware Estuary coastal habitats in New Jersey, I documented the rate of coastal forest retreat and the rate of inland salt marsh migration across 101.1 km of undeveloped sa...

Tidal marshes maintain elevation relative to sea level through accumulation of mineral and organic matter, yet this dynamic accumulation feedback mechanism has not been modeled widely in the context of accelerated sea-level rise. Uncertainties exist about tidal marsh resiliency to accelerated sea-level rise, reduced sediment supply, reduced plant productivity under increased inundation, and lim...

During the final hours of pregnancy, uterine contractions cause the foetus to move through the birth canal and leave the mother's body. Haly Abbas (died 982-994 CE), is believed to be the first writer to explain the role of these contractions. However, this concept had in fact been described in the text titled Bab-e-Borzouyeh, written four centuries earlier by the physician Borzouyeh (Perzoes i...

In this paper, we use weakly commuting and weakly compatible conditions of self-mapping pairs, prove some new common fixed point theorems for three pairs of self-maps in the framework of generalized metric spaces. The results presented in this paper generalize the well known comparable results in the literature due to Abbas et al. [M. Abbas, T. Nazir, R. Saadati, Adv. Difference Equ., 2011 (201...

The effect of the application of winter supplementation (experiment A), deworming (experiment B) and foot trimming (experiment C) in three sheep breedsfound in the Chiloé Archipelago (Chile): Chilota (CH), Romney Marsh (RM) and Suffolk Down (SD) was evaluated with the aim of assessing the productive performance of the exotic breeds (RM and SD) in relation to the native one (CH) under the agro-e...