background: this study attempted to investigate traffic accident fatalities during 2004-2009 and the effect of fuel rationing on traffic accident fatalities .   materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study on available data of all traffic accident fatalities in fars province, iran, during 2004-2009. to identify and fit the best model, various instruments, including the autocorrelatio...

background: the aim of the current study was to assess the mrna levels of two mitochondria-related genes, including nuclear-encoded nrf1 (nuclear respiratory factor 1), mitochondrial transcription factor a (tfam), and mitochondrial-encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (mt-co1) genes in various stages of the human oocyte maturation. methods: oocytes were obtained from nine infertile women with...

one ef the most important innovations in the history ef traditional logic is the avicena's theory ef temporal modalities (.atm). althottgh) the basic concepts and elements ef this theory are fottnded in aristotelian and stoic-lvlegarian !0 gic) but as a independent lo,gical system, are devised on/y fry avicenna and were later developed and completed fry his followers. the atm theory contai...

abstract the present study is conducted to find various forms of times in two fictional genres “tale” and “minimalist story”, and also to disclose the factors behind the difference of the aforementioned forms in the two mentioned genres. time is represented in the levels of plot, setting, language and the images in various forms. in case of tales, due to the absence or weakness of the plot, the...

tissue nutrient supply may be synchronized with endogenous physiological rhythms to optimize animal and human health. glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity have endogenous rhythms that are not essentially dependent on food type and eating. human glucose tolerance declines as day comes into night. based on such evolutionary findings, large evening meals must be avoided to reduce risks of vis...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is one of the autoimmune diseases with an unknown cause. the aim of this study was to explore the link between air quality and ms relapses in patients who suffer from ms.this time-series study was conducted on patients registered at the iranian multiple sclerosis society in 2011-2012. they were randomly selected from patients lived in tehran in the last five years, and h...

background and objectives: we developed and evaluated the utility of a quadruplex taqman real-time pcr assay that allows simultaneous identification of vancomycin-resistant genotypes and clinically relevant enterococci. materials and methods: the specificity of the assay was tested using reference strains of vancomycin-resistant and susceptible enterococci. in total, 193 clinical isolates were ...