A fauna of 16 species and genera of marine Ostracoda is described and illustrated for the first timefrom the mid-Cretaceous of the Badamouyeh Mountain in Kerman province. The ostracod assemblagesuggests a favorable condition ...

Fracture mapping of Late Permian-Early Triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the Sydney Basin,New South Wales, Australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. Joints with ...

The strong ground motions recorded during the 2002 Avaj earthquake have been used to estimateS wave attenuation, Qβ, and spectral decay parameter, κ, for the Avaj region. Qβ for shear wave is estimatedas a function of ...

The Komshecheh barite-fluorite deposit is the product of epigenetic hydrothermal mineralizationin dolomitized limestone of Middle Triassic age. The deposit is structurally and lithologically controlled andoccurs predominantly ...

The German cockroach, Blattella germanica, is one of the most common pest species, and is acarrier of many pathogen and allergen factors in humans. Thus, regarding public health, the control of thisinsect is quite important. ...

Holocene in Southwest Khuzestan is represented by a fluvio-tidal succession termed theBahmanshir Series which consists of two clayey layers separated by silty sand to silt beds. This paperdescribes the geotechnical properties ...

Thirteen environmental elements were distinguished in the livers of various species of fish thathave been sampled from 15 sites in a restricted area of the KhorramAbad River Basin in Lorestan province(west of Iran). Sites ...

To survive in natural waters, bacteria must respond to a variety of environmental variables such asstarvation. Flexibacter chinensis was grown and multiplied in the starvation medium and its viable count, totalcount and ...

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is the most contagious disease of cloven-hoofed animals, causingsignificant economical losses in livestock animals. In this study FMD Virus type A87/IRN was cultured andmultiplied on BHK21 ...

Glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a superfamily enzyme which plays a major role indetoxification of xenobiotic compounds by catalyzing the conjugation of xenobiotic to cellular glutathione(GSH). GST-P is an important class ...

Synthesis of some new monocyclic β-lactams containing a quaternary carbon center via a [2+2]cycloaddition reaction is described. The reaction of achiral diphenyl ketene with chiral aldimines derivedfrom chiral 2, 3, 4, ...

During this research, bacteria resistant to metals were evaluated in the soil of Isfahan Province.According to the sampling locations the soils are classified as agricultural soils, non-agricultural soils andsediments of ...

Upper Devonian sediments of the Kuh-e Zard area northwest of Zefreh, Central Iran, arecomposed mainly of brown and grey limestones with sandstone and shale intercalations. They contain tracefossils such as Chondrites isp., ...

It has been well established that the secretions of thyroid hormones and growth hormone (GH) isunder the regulation of different neurotransmitters. The goal of this study was to determine whethersubstance-P, as a ...