Factor analysis is widely used in many application areas. The first step, choosing the number of factors, remains a serious challenge. One of the most popular methods is parallel analysis (PA), which compares the observed factor strengths to simulated ones under a noise-only model. This paper presents a deterministic version of PA (DPA), which is faster and more reproducible than PA. We show th...

We live in a world of diminished ecological diversity. We extract energy, materials, and organisms from nature and modify landscapes at rates that cannot be sustained. These activities have resulted in accelerated rates of extinction, degradation, and loss of ecosystems, and disruption of the natural systems in which our cultures are embedded. The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) believes...

Gorgona island, the major insular area in the Colombian Pacific Ocean, is characterized by a remarkably high biological and ecosystem diversity for this area of the world. Coral reefs are well developed and their fish communities have been described using conventional visual surveys. These methods, however, are known to be biased towards detecting larger and more mobile species, tending to igno...

beet western yellows virus (bwyv), a species of the genus polerovirus in the family luteoviridae, is an agriculturally important virus infecting over 150 plant species in 23 dicotyledonous families worldwide. a survey of bwyv in canola fields in golestan and tehran provinces of iran using indirect triple antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (tas-elisa) indicated 8.3 % infection. ...

24 The family Anelloviridae includes human and animal Torque teno viruses (TTV) with extensive 25 genetic diversity. The antigenic diversity among anelloviruses has never been assessed. Using 26 Torque teno sus virus (TTSuV) as a model, we describe here the first investigation on antigenic 27 relationships among different anelloviruses. Using the TTSuV1a or TTSuV1b ELISA based on 28 the respect...

background and objectives: this study was undertaken to determine the relationship between food security and individual dietary diversity score (idds). materials and methods: this population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 non-diabetic individuals aged ≥40 years, selected randomly from the tehran lipid and glucose study. household food security was measured using a validated un...

abstract seedless barberry (berberis vulgaris l. var. asperma) is one of the few crops that is cultured only in iran and southern parts of khorasan provinces. the origin of this variety is unknown and there has not been any study aiming to identify phylogenic relationships of this plant with other species existing in iran. in this study, aflp markers based on four primer combinations (ecori/tru...