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Development in vitro of cofee plants in different culture medium and plant growth regulators.

The nonexistence of a methodology adapted for the asexual multiplication of C. arabica in commercial scale has been the largest restriction to the employment of this technique as strategy for the use of coffee hybrid obtained by the genetic improvement. With the objective of refine the micropropagation techniques of coffee shoots, nodal segments of plants preset in vitro of C. arabica was inoculated in culture medium. In a first experiment it was studied the effect on concentrations of BAP (benzilaminopurin) and concentrations of ANA (naftalenacetic acid) on 2 cvs. In the second experiment the influence of concentrations of BAP and 2 culture medium on 3 cvs. were also verified. The pH was adjusted for 5.8 before the addition of 7 g dm of agar and the sterilization to 121 oC and 0,1 MPa for 20 min. After the inoculation, the explants was maintained in growth room at 26±1 oC, irradiance of 32 mol m s and photoperiod of 16 daily hours. The experiments were a design randomized complete blocks, being used four explants by repetition and 20 plants per treatment. After 90 days, better results for cvs. Catuaí Vermelho and Maragogipe were obtained with 15 mg dm of BAP. The cv. Catuai Vermelho was presented larger shoots number when compared with cv. Maragogipe. In the absence of BAP, culture medium WPM is more indicated to obtain larger number of shoots of cv. Rubi. Better results in the fresh weight of shoots were verified in culture medium MS, for cvs. Catuai Vermelho and Icatu. Key-words: Coffea arabica L. ; cytokinin; auxin; MS; WPM. 1 D.Sc., Pesquisadora da EPAMIG, Uberaba, MG, Brasil. E-mail: adriana.madeira@epamig.br 2 D.Sc., Prof. Adjunto do Departamento de Agricultura (DAG), Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Caixa Postal 37, CEP. 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brasil. E-mail: samuelpc@ufla.br 3 D.Sc., Prof. a . Adjunta do Centro de Ciências Agrárias (CCA), Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE), CEP. 85960-000, Marechal Cândido Rondon, PR, Brasil. E-mail: fvilla2003@libero.it 4 D.Sc., Prof. Adjunto do Departamento de Agricultura (DAG), UFLA, Cx. Postal 37, CEP. 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brasil. E-mail: mpasqual@ufla.br 5 Doutoranda em Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, MG, Brasil. E-mail: mcarv78@yahoo.com. br
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by doctors they have never met, refuse necessary diagnostic and therapeutic medical procedures, and ask to be allowed to die? Our work' and the work of others have raised questions about the assumption that depression necessarily causes decisional incapacity. It is clear, however, that depression has some impact on decision-making about life-sustaining therapy and that we have much more to learn about how these processes interact. Hopefully, future research will aid clinicians in identifying whether treatment refusal by a depressed patient is transient or authentic. In the meantime, we have no alternative but to try simultaneously to treat depression and attempt to understand, through painstaking conversation, why the depressed patient is refusing treatment.
Foraging behaviour of antarctic fur seals during periods of contrasting prey abundance

1. Foraging behaviour of Antarctic fur seals rearing pups at Bird Island, South Georgia, was assessed using at-sea activity patterns measured by electronic time-depth recorders. Information was obtained for a total of 75 individuals and 191 foraging trips to sea over five reproductive seasons from 1988/89 to 1992/93; this included one season (1990/91) of low prey abundance. A method was developed to divide the diving record up into logical units or bouts which differed from past methods used for defining bouts of behaviour. 2. Foraging trips were significantly longer in 1990/91 than in the other years. There were significant differences between years in the proportion of time spent foraging when at sea and in the distribution of foraging through the day and night. These differences probably represent behavioural responses to changes in prey distribution and abundance and were reflected in the frequency of occurrence of different types of foraging behaviour. 3. Four types of foraging bout were recognized using a cluster analysis. Type I (short) bouts were of short duration (17 min) and occurred mainly during daytime and at dusk. They probably represented exploratory behaviour. Type II (long) bouts occurred mainly at night and were of long duration (80 min). They increased in frequency in 1990/91 when food was scarce and 61-73% of time spent foraging was in these bouts. Type III (shallow) bouts occurred mainly at night, were of short duration (12 min) and represented feeding close to the surface, possibly in association with other, surface-feeding krill predators. Shallow bouts accounted for 8-14% of time spent foraging. Type IV (deep) bouts were of medium duration (19 min) and represented feeding at greater depth (40-50 m) than other bout types. They were most abundant around dawn. 4. Mean dive duration during bouts exceeded the theoretical aerobic dive limit on > 30% of occasions for short, long and deep bouts. There were positive correlations between mean dive duration and surface interval duration for most of these bout types in most years. This suggested that long dives incurred a cost in terms of the amount of time spent at the surface between dives. 5. The study demonstrated that female fur seals invest a significantly greater effort in foraging during periods of low prey abundance by both increasing the time spent foraging and by increasing activity during foraging. This could represent a 30-50% increase in the costs of foraging during years of low food abundance.
Exploring Potential Correlation Between CEFR Grammar Profile in English and Learners’ Overall Grammar Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of “that”

This preliminary study explored the possibility of using an opaque polysemous grammatical unit as a representation for the whole grammatical knowledge of a learner. There were two groups of informants, a group with a certified language proficiency level at CEFR B1-B2 and a learner group at A1-A2 level. The informants were asked to provide a Thai translation of an English text as faithful as possible. The first group consistently and correctly answered the questions by supplying the right translation of polysemous “that” while the answers from the second group were divided in that some could correctly identify C2 function of the word, “that”, though their overall grammatical knowledge was considered to be at A1 but other A2 students failed to identify C2 function of the word in question. The result indicated that the grammatical construction in question could not be used as a key predictor for learners’ syntactic representation as the lineage relation between CEFR level of the grammatical unit corresponded with the translated texts provided to a limited extent. On pedagogical implications, insights provided suggested that instructors should spend more time explaining challenging advanced grammatical functions as they were points that learners were struggling with and one possible way to check whether they did understand syntactic meaning of a function word was by asking students to supply a translation.
Biometric relationships of Mactra violacea (Gmelin) from Kerala

The length-weight (L-W) and other biometric relationships of the surf clam Mactra violacea , collected from the north coast of Kerala are presented in this study. In M. violacea , the L-W relationship between males and females was not found to be significantly different and therefore a combined equation was derived. The growth in length is accompanied by weight increase (isometric growth, b = 1). However, in all other biometric relationships such as length-width (L - B), length-height (L - H), total weight-meat weight (TW - MW), total weight-shell weight (TW - SW), and shell weight–meat weight (SW - MW)), allometric growth was observed. In the case of L - B, L - H and TW - MW, a positive biometric relationship exists (b > 1) while in TW - SW and SW - MW, a negative biometric relationship (b< 1) was observed.
Tobacco Budworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Variations in Response to Methyl Parathion and Permethrin in the Subtropics

To determine the variations in the effect of methyl parathion on the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), the progeny of insects collected in the larval stage from Cotton in the subtropical Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas were topically treated from 1966 to 1975 and from 1978 to 1981. LD50 values for 80% of the collections exceeded those of a susceptible laboratory-reared strain. However, the values forthe field strains varied widely within and among years. Peak resistance to methyl parathion occurred in 1971. By 1981, however, resistance was at about the level found in 1966. Control of Heliothis spp. damage to souares and bolls with methyl parathian in the field tended to vary inversely with resistance to this insecticide as measured by LD50 values. Neither field data nor LD50 values indicated that H. virescens larvae in northeastern Mexico and the LRGV had developed resistance to permethrin between 1974 and 1981.
Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Activity of Allium cepa , Allium roseum , Trigonella foenum graecum and Curcuma domestica

In many parts of the world Allium cepa, Album roseum, Trigonella foenum graecum and Curcuma domestica are extensively used as food and are popular in herbal medicine. The four were screened against 26 pathogens and all exhibited broad-spectrum anti-bacterial activity. The aqueous as well as fractionated methanol extract of Allium cepa and A. roseum demonstrated broader level of activity against most of the organisms. On the other hand the unfractionated methanol extracts as well as the fractions of both Trigonella foenum graecum and Curcuma domestica showed broad spectrum of activity. Fractionation was found to improve their level of activity. In both cases the ethyl acetate fractions exhibited higher level of activity. All the materials tested were inactive against any of the four moulds. Album cepa, Allium roseum, Trigonella foenum graecum and Curcuma domestica are proposed as non toxic, safe, broad spectrum antibacterial agents.
Mutations of C3 in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS)

This non‐enteropathic, often familial disease is characterized by a microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure. Dysregulation of the complement system predisposes to this life‐threatening thrombomicroangiopathy. Heterozygous mutations in one of three inhibitors (Factor H, MCP, Factor I) that regulate C3 are present in ∼50% of patients. In two large aHUS cohorts, we have now identified mutations in C3 in ∼10% of patients. There were 9 distinct mutations in 14 patients from 11 families. Site directed mutagenesis was performed and the mutant proteins transiently expressed in 293T and COS‐1 cells and quantitated by ELISA. One mutant (nonsense) led to a truncated protein and one (Cys to Trp) was not expressed. The expressed mutants were assessed for their binding to regulators and cofactor activity (CA). Five mutants displayed decreased binding (∼30% of WT) to MCP and a corresponding reduction in CA. Four of these also showed a decrease in binding (∼70% of WT) to FH. Thus, we propose that a primary resistance to CA leads to a secondary gain of function. This is the first description of heterozygous, function altering mutations in C3 and their linkage to human disease. They further establish a key role for excessive complement activation predisposing to aHUS and provide insight into binding sites of C3. This work is supported by T32AI007163, R01A1041592, and R01A1037618.
Mécanismes de la correction de la rigidité artérielle après transplantation rénale

The incidence of terminal renal failure is dramatically increasing in the developed countries. Moreover, the mean age of incident patients in terminal renal failure has been increasing for several decades. All cause and cardiovascular mortality of terminal renal failure patients is very high in comparison to the general population. Previous studies demonstrated that the arterial stiffness is an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality in dialysis. The mechanisms involved in arterial stiffening are poorly understood. Ageing, vascular calcifications, accumulation of the advanced glycation end products, and the endothelial dysfunction probably all play a role in the genesis of arterial stiffening. Renal transplantation improves survival in patients with terminal renal failure. The improvement of arterial stiffness may be involved in this better survival. Moreover, some studies have already demonstrated that the level of the advanced glycation end products and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction decrease after renal transplantation. The aims of this study were: 1. to describe the evolution of arterial stiffness after renal transplantation. 2. To evaluate if the decrease of the levels of advanced glycation end products and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction is associated with the evolution of arterial stiffness after renal transplantation. The general objective of this work was to better understand the mechanisms implied in arterial stiffening in uraemia. We prospectively measured arterial stiffness parameters among patients receiving a renal graft, just before and three months after renal transplantation. Thirty-two patients (seven women), with a median age of 50 were enrolled. We observed a significant reduction of the arterial stiffness parameters. The level of pentosidine (an advanced glycation end product) and the level of some biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction (endothelin-1, ADMA) also decreased after renal transplantation. Moreover, we observed a differential impact of renal transplantation on the vascular function according to age. We observed a major decrease of the Pulse Wave Velocity among the older patients. We also observed large variations of the level of arterial pressure among these patients. Among the younger subjects, we mainly observed an improvement of
Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis Project: A Gentle Introduction to Dirichlet Process with applications in R

This project document aims to give a high level introduction to Dirichlet Process and its applications on Non-parametric Bayesian methods. In preliminaries section we gave brief introduction about the concepts that are used in Dirichlet Process and Bayesian Mod-elling. In section 2. we gave an introduction to Dirichlet Process with R illustrations. Since there are many methods in Dirichlet Process we only on covered: GEM, Stick Breaking and Chinese Restau-rant Process. In section 3, we provided application of Dirichlet Process in Gaussian Mixture Models by ﬁnding parameter estimations using Gibbs Sampling. We also brieﬂy mentioned further research topics in the area.
Dietary Fiber/Carnitine, Diacylglycerol, and Low Glycemic Index Starch Effects on Obesity and Triglyceride Rich Lipoprotein Metabolsim in Dogs

Dietary Fiber/Carnitine, Diacylglycerol, and Low Glycemic Index Starch Effects on Obesity and Triglyceride Rich Lipoprotein Metabolism in Dogs. (December 2009) Yuka Mitsuhashi, B.S., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. John E. Bauer Obesity is the most common clinical disorder and is associated with various medical conditions in dogs. Appropriate dietary management potentially provides weight loss in a safe, healthy, and efficacious manner. In order to elucidate whether dietary fiber, carnitine, diacylglycerol (DAG), and low glycemic index (LGI) act on such dietary components, a series of studies was conducted: 1) the combination of dietary fiber/carnitine effect on short term (3 and 7 h) satiety and long term (6 weeks) canine weight loss, 2) the combination of dietary LGI/high glycemic index (HGI) starches and DAG/triacylglycerol (TAG) effect during a 9 week canine weight loss period, and 3) the DAG effect on triglyceride rich lipoprotein (TRL) metabolism isolated from canine plasma 3-4 h postprandially. The combination of dietary fiber/carnitine supplementation decreased both food and energy intake at 3 h post-feeding, suggesting that this combination diet provided 3 h post-meal satiety. This combination supplement also increased postprandial plasma hydroxybutyrate (BHB) at d 42 and body fat and weight loss at d 42 from baseline. This
Malignant Prostatic Tumor Revealing By Ivory Vertebra in a Context of Chronic Low Back Pain

DOI: 10.21276/sjmcr.2018. 6.5. 3 Abstract: Low back pain is a painful condition of the lumbar spine. When it is acute, it is a lumbago (or “crick in the back” in everyday language). Lumbar pain may be the clinical expression of an infectious, inflammatory, tumoral and visceral disease or traumatic anatomical injury. It affects between 40 and 70% of people at one time or another. We report the case of a 60-year-old Malian who was referred for chronic relapsed low back pain with conventional treatment. In examination, we found pain localized in the lumbar region (mechanical or inflammatory) associated with mobility limitation, Schober: 10 + 1.5 cm; a notion of dysuria, an alteration of the state of general stage III of WHO, low back pain mixed with a visual analogue scale (VAS) evaluated at 9/10. Low back pain is a common symptom of consultation in rheumatology. The wide etiological diversity urges a diagnostic approach. The finding of Ivory vertebra is a rare; it is, usually due to metastatic and radiological findings. Its treatment is symptomatic, etiological and especially multidisciplinary.
Characterisation of publications on animal breeding in mexican scientific journals

The purpose of this study was to characterise papers on animal breeding published by Mexican researchers in the scienti c journals that belong to the Índice de Revistas Mexicanas de Investigación Cientí ca y Tecnológica of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. The papers considered were published in the journals Agrociencia (n = 48), Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Pecuarias (n = 119), Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems (n = 17) and Veterinaria México (n = 78) up to the year 2012. Studies on animal breeding focused mainly on cattle, tropical zones and the states of Veracruz, México and Yucatán. Quantitative genetics was the most studied area and the most researched traits were those directly related to production. The most studied topics were phenotypical and environmental characterisations, estimations of genetic parameters, comparisons of genotypes, and methods to carry out genetic evaluations. Half of the research was published by two or more institutions and most (93 %) were prepared by two or more researchers (average 3.8 authors per article). The institutions with most published papers (64 %) in animal breeding were the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Colegio de Postgraduados, the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. The characterisation and analysis of the evolution of scienti c publications are important in order to design animal breeding strategies and prioritise future
Research on Mandatory Lane-Changing Behavior in Highway Weaving Sections

As the accident-prone sections and bottlenecks, highway weaving sections will become more complicated when it comes to the mixed-traffic environments with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs). In order to make CAVs accurately identify the driving behavior of manual-human vehicles to avoid traffic accidents caused by lane changing, it is necessary to analyze the characteristics of the mandatory lane-changing (MCL) process in the weaving area. An analytical MCL method based on the driver’s psychological characteristics is proposed in this study. Firstly, the driver’s MLC pressure concept was proposed by leading in the distance of the off-ramp. Then, the lane-changing intention was quantified by considering the driver’s MLC pressure and tendentiousness. Finally, based on the lane-changing intention and the headway distribution of the target lane, an MLC positions probability density model was proposed to describe the distribution characteristics of the lane-changing position. Through the NGSIM data verification, the lane-changing analysis models can objectively describe the vehicle lane-changing characteristics in the actual scenarios. Compared with the traditional lane-changing model, the proposed models are more interpretable and in line with the driving intention. The results show significant improvements in the lane-changing safe recognition of CAVs in heterogeneous traffic flow (both CAVs and HVs) in the future.
Hot gaseous atmospheres of rotating galaxies observed with XMM–Newton

X-ray emitting atmospheres of non-rotating early-type galaxies and their connection to central active galactic nuclei have been thoroughly studied over the years. However, in systems with significant angular momentum, processes of heating and cooling are likely to proceed differently. We present an analysis of the hot atmospheres of six lenticulars and a spiral galaxy to study the effects of angular momentum on the hot gas properties. We find an alignment between the hot gas and the stellar distribution, with the ellipticity of the X-ray emission generally lower than that of the optical stellar emission, consistent with theoretical predictions for rotationally-supported hot atmospheres. The entropy profiles of NGC 4382 and the massive spiral galaxy NGC 1961 are significantly shallower than the entropy distribution in other galaxies, suggesting the presence of strong heating (via outflows or compressional) in the central regions of these systems. Finally, we investigate the thermal (in)stability of the hot atmospheres via criteria such as the TI- and C-ratio, and discuss the possibility that the discs of cold gas present in these objects have condensed out of the hot atmospheres.
G N ] 4 A ug 2 02 0 ON HAUSDORFF METRIC SPACES

An expansive mapping of Lipschitz type is introduced. A map, induced by a given map T between two metric spaces X and Y , from the power set of X to the power set of Y is considered. It is proved that the induced map preserves continuity, Lipschitz continuity and expansiveness of Lipschitz type. A nonempty intersection property in a metric space is achieved which also provides a partial generalization of the classical Cantor’s Intersection Theorem. Using this nonempty intersection property and the considered induced map, it is shown that the converse of Henrikson’s result (i.e. a Hausdorff metric space is complete if its underlying space is complete) also holds.
Supplement to “ Tests of Additional Conditional Moment Restrictions ”

This Supplement to the paper Tests for Additional Moment Conditions details a number of useful lemmata used in establishing the main results of the paper together with the proofs of Theorems 4.1 and 4.2. As in the main text, throughout the following, the abbreviations a.s. , f.r. r. , n.s. and p.d. indicate “almost surely”, “full row rank”, “nonsingular” and “positive definite” respectively. [·] is the integer part of ·. Statistics are “asymptotically equivalent” if they differ by an op(1) term. C will denote a generic positive constant that may be different in different uses with CS, J, M, T and cr Cauchy-Schwarz, Jensen, Markov, triangle and Loève cr, Davidson (1994), p.140, inequalities respectively. Also we write w.p.a.1 for “with probability approaching 1”. Donald, Imbens and Newey (2003) is again abbreviated as DIN.