empirical paper was also misinterpreted. We found that selection into the internet-based birth cohort Nascita e INFanzia: gli Effetti dell'Ambiente (NINFEA) was affected by parity [1 þ vs 0, odds ratio (OR) ¼ 0.32], maternal education (graduate vs not graduate, OR ¼ 2.30) and smoking during pregnancy (yes vs no, OR ¼ 0.43), and very weakly affected (i.e. ORs between 1.1 and 1.3) by the other si...

Transgenic derivatives of sugarcane cultivar Q117, with reduced acid invertase activity, were used to investigate the role of this enzyme in sucrose metabolism in the sugarcane culm. Despite more than 70% reduction in the level of acid invertase activity in the immature internodes, no significant changes in either sucrose load or purity were evident. Radiolabelling experiments indicated no sign...

Objective: In this study, the levels and antioxidant activities of some secondary metabolites isolated from five pistachio (Pistacia vera)cultivars collected from four different geographical regions of Iran, were studied. Materials and Methods: Total phenolic compounds levels were determined by Folin-Ciocalteu method. Total flavonoid content was determined as AlCl3 complex and expressed as mg o...

maryam zaheri1, ali gholami1*, habibollah nadian2, ebrahim panahpour1 1- department of soil science, college of agriculture, ahvaz branch, islamic azad university, ahvaz, iran 2- department of soil science, college of agriculture, ramin agriculture university, ahvaz, iran * corresponding author: [email protected] received: 22 may 2015                                                      ...

in order to study the effect of rootstock, scion and some methods of grafting and budding to achieve the best methods of grafting in pomegranate, split factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design in march 2013 in greenhouse at the agricultural college of vali-e-asr university of rafsanjan. factors included rootstock, scion, and methods of grafting and time of grafting. ...

undoubtedly the holy quran is a unique book in arabic language, eloquently and rhetorically. its words are a pure collection of arabic literature. all poets, jurisprudents and philosophers believe it as a master art. it is a permanent treasure of arabic and for it many sciences have been generated. it kept the arabic language active and dynamic during ups and downs of the history. it also conta...

10 / research in arabic language and literature: foreign languages faculty research biannual journal (autumn winter 2012-2013) issue 7 the manifestations of post-modernism in the novel barari alhoma by ibrahim nasr-allah ahmad reza saedi * aliyeh jafari zadeh ** abstract the word post-modernism expresses a new era in the history of western civilization, which is known by the feeling of disillus...

in vitro pollen germination and also pollen tube growth dynamics in different pollination treatments under controlled temperature, humidity and photoperiodicity were studied regarding four cultivars (‘shastomi - e - do’, ‘ebrahim - e - kalajah’, ‘sefid - e - rezaeeieh’ and ‘razi’) under self and under cross-pollination along with three superior genotypes (‘269’, ‘416’ and ‘464’) of apricot. fol...