ON THE COMPARISON OF THE APPLICATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL RANKING TECHNIQUES IN DETERMINING THE PRIORITY FACTORS AFFECTING SEED PRODUCTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS: CASE OF GUILAN PROVINCE, IRAN

Aimed at identifying and prioritizing promoters and deterrent affecting seed production of medicinal plants, the present study was conducted in 2014.The Delphi method was conducted using a panel of 13 experts in Guilan Natural Resources and Agriculture Organization.In the VANILLA first round of the study, multiple-response techniques were used for

Cerebral organoids (COs) are a self-organizing three-dimensional brain tissue mimicking the human cerebral cortex.COs are a promising new system for modelling pathological features of neurological disorders, including prion diseases.COs expressing normal prion protein (PrPC) are susceptible to prion infection when exposed to the disease isoforms of

Valuation involves the analyses of various input data to produce an estimated value.Since each input is itself often an estimate, there is an element of uncertainty in the input.This leads to uncertainty in the resultant output value.It is argued that a valuation Lighting must also convey information on the uncertainty, so as to be more meaningful

BackgroundThe therapeutic use of multipotent stem cells depends on their differentiation potential, which has been shown to be variable for different populations.These differences are likely to be the result of key changes in their epigenetic profiles.Methodology/principal findingsto address this issue, we have investigated the levels of epigenetic