background: obesity is an important and life-threatening disease, associated with different chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. we sought to address the paucity of information on the trends of anthropometric indices such as weight, waist circumference, and body mass index in the adult population of iran. methods: we drew upon data from the first non-co...

creating crisis and attempting to solve it is an important function of the mass media. this is carried out using a range of modern tools. media can influence socio-political and cultural events employing strategies and meta-strategies to form the public thinking in the direction they aim. the media emperors and the press trusts manage to form some kind of information monopoly through influencin...

proteomics has emerged since 1995 for studying the total proteome of cells, tissues, or organisms at any condition. the study of proteins has a fundamental importance because they are the functional and final molecules of the gene expression process and proteomics could be a valuable technique for achieving this purpose. mass spectrometry is a complementary technique for proteomics that allows ...

objective: obesity is a worldwide and major public health problem including iran and other countries. available data indicates that the prevalence of obesity has significantly increased among the iranian population over the past 30 years. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of obesity in yazd (central province of iran) population. materials and methods: this was a cross-...

Using the Faint Object Camera on the repaired Hubble Space Telescope, we have observed two fields in the globular cluster M15: the central density cusp, and a field at r = 20. These are the highest-resolution images ever taken of this cluster’s dense core, and are the first to probe the distribution of stars well below the main-sequence turnoff. After correction for incompleteness, we measure a...

Binary properties are usually expressed (for good observational reasons) as a function of primary mass. It has been found that the distribution of companion masses – the mass ratio distribution – is different for different primary masses. We argue that system mass is the more fundamental physical parameter to use. We show that if system masses are drawn from a log-normal mass function, then the...