BACKGROUND Probiotic microorganisms are selected based on their long history of use as well as their lack of side effects. Nowadays, the consumption of probiotic products is growing intensively in developing countries. Researchers who work in the food industry and research centers pay more attention to the identification of new probiotic bacteria with better performance characteristics as well ...

purpose: to evaluate diurnal variations in intraocular pressure (iop) in normal adult residents of yazd city.  methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 800 eyes of 400 subjects aged between 20-80 years selected by cluster random sampling from residents of yazd city during 2004-2005. iop was measured by goldman applanation tonometer in the morning (8-9 am) and evening (8-9 pm). the d...

Application of Resilience Concept in the Analysis Basic Resources Security for Shazand Watershed, Markazi Province, Iran

sustainable range management needs the accurate estimation yield and determining of grazing capacity in rangelands. it is easy to obtain yield estimation with indirect methods. for this purpose, the relation between cover and forage yield of range species were studied in steppic rangelands of yazd. measurements of cover and forage yield were carried out with plot area and clipping and weighting...

bluetongue is an acute and subacute viral diseases of domestic and wild ruminants.this research was conducted to assess the disease status using serological diagnostic methods and virus isolation were performed. during the period 2003-2006, from sheep farms of 9 provinces including markazi, ardabil, yazd, qom, east azarbaijan, west azarbaijan, qazvin, isfahan and golestan, four handred thirty t...

BACKGROUND Northern Iran (Ardabil) is characterized by a high gastric cancer (GC) rate, whereas Southern Iran (Kerman and Yazd) has a low GC rate. The aim of this study is to verify the potential for pepsinogen I and II to detect atrophic gastritis (AG) in both high and low risk populations for GC. METHODS Sera of blood donors and patients with GC from Ardebil, Kerman and Yazd were used to me...

iabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine metabolic disorders. Dual endocrine deficits of impaired insulin action (insulin resistance) and inadequate insulin secretion create an environment of chronic hyperglycemia and general metabolic disorder (1). Development of novel medicine prototypes with systematic and intensive investigations of plants for new agents to treat diabetes mellit...

events and accidents in drinking water distribution networks are among cases that lose water and increase the rate of non revenue water. network events in addition to wasting water can cause destruction, traffic jam, pressure reduction, pollution and enormous reconstruction costs.the main focus of this study is to statistically evaluate these incidents and to develop an analytical method to pre...