Copepods are the main zooplankton assemblages in most tropical and semi-tropical estuaries. In this research, copepod population dynamics were investigated in Helleh River estuary, Persian Gulf during four seasons beginning from summer 2011 to spring 2012.  Samples were taken using plankton net with mesh size of 140 µm and vertical towing from 5 fixed-stations in mid-season. Results showed that...

Objectives Use of a reliable method to determine the degree of skeletal development of the mid-palatal suture is important in the choice of treatment between orthopedic maxillary expansion and surgical expansion in adolescents and young adults. The aim of this study was to review the new methods for evaluation of mid-palatal suture maturation. Methods Electronic search was conducted in PubMed ...

OBJECTIVES From the perspectives of home care patients and caregivers, this study aimed to (a) identify the challenges for better fall-risk management during home care episodes and (b) explore the opportunities for them to leverage health information technology (IT) solutions to improve fall-risk management during home care episodes. METHODS Twelve in-depth semistructured interviews with the ...

Ab__•S_.•_• High-energy electrons have been measured systematically in a low-altitude (520 x 675 km), nearly polar (inclination = 82 ø) orbit by sensitive instruments onboard the Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX). Count rate channels with electron energy thresholds ranging from 0.4 MeV to 3.5 MeV in three different instruments have been used to examine relativistic...

Drymarchon couperi (Eastern Indigo Snake), a federally threatened species of the southeastern Coastal Plain, has presented challenges for surveyors, with few reliable methods developed for its detection or monitoring. Surveys for D. couperi at potential underground shelters conducted in late fall through early spring have been relatively successful when performed by experienced surveyors, espec...

We investigate decaying D-branes as the origin of the thermal string gas of string gas cosmology. We consider initial configurations of low-dimensional branes and argue that they can time evolve to thermal string gas. We find that there is a range in the weak string coupling and fast brane decay time regimes, where the initial configuration could drive the evolution of the dilaton to values, wh...

Sodium samarium borate Na3Sm(BO3)2, was prepared by a flux method and structurally characterized by single-crystal structure analysis for the first time. The results show that it crystallizes in the monoclinic system P21/n, with a = 6.5667(3) Å, b = 8.7675(4) Å, c = 10.1850(5), β = 90.86◦, V = 586.32(5) Å3 and Z = 4. The structure contains NaO7, NaO6, NaO5, SmO8, and BO3 units, which are interc...

China’s rural industrialization, which flourished in the 1980s, has suddenly declined since mid-1990s. Based on perspective of institutional change collective construction land, this paper discusses reasons behind rise and fall industrialization. Using empirical tests provincial panel data from 1987 to 1997, it is found that 1980s mid-1990s, government relaxed regulation land allowed its transf...

abstract  introduction: hypertension is a very common cardiovascular disease with extensive effects on body organs. this study was conducted to compare the extent of target organ damage in hypertensive patients with and without significant nocturnal fall in blood pressure (dippers and non-dippers, respectively). methods: one-hundred patients with recently diagnosed hypertension underwent 24-hou...

Consider a globally hyperbolic cosmological spacetime. Topologically, the spacetime is then a compact 3-manifold in cartesian product with an interval. Assuming that there is an expanding direction, is there any relation between the topology of the 3-manifold and the asymptotics? In fact, there is a result by Michael Anderson, where he obtains relations between the long-time evolution in Genera...