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Effect of Methyl Jasmonate on Enzymatic Browning and Antioxidant Enzyme System of Eggplant Fruit

: Eggplant fruit result in significant economic losses, as being non-climacteric is sensitive to chilling injury and short postharvest life. Eggplants were harvested in Gevas district of Van, Turkey. The eggplant fruits were harvested by taking maturity levels into consideration and then placed in foam plates and covered with Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) for 21 days in cold air depots containing 10 and 20 °C temperature and 90-95% relative humidity. The fruits of the same size were divided into 3 different groups. The first group of fruits was immersed in distilled water as a control. The second group of fruits were immersed in 1 μM MeJA solution for 10 minutes. The third group was immersed in 5 μM MeJA solution for 10 minutes. The effect of postharvest Methyl Jasmonate treatment during the storage period on respiratory rate, Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), polyphenol oxidase (PPO), and malondialdehyde (MDA) were evaluated. The results obtained from this study suggest that 1 µM Methyl Jasmonate application gives the best results in terms of parameters such as respiratory rate, SOD, PPO, and MDA at 20 °C, while 5 µM Methyl Jasmonate was found to be the most positive one in terms of CAT enzyme activity. As a result, it can be suggested that MeJA treatments were effective on antioxidativ enzymes and respiration rate during the storage period.
Leg explosive power and handgrip strength of college students

The purpose of the present study was to compare the leg explosive power and handgrip strength of Indian college level men physical education and non-physical education students and also find out the relationship with body composition variables to leg explosive power and handgrip strength. A total of 500 (physical education- 250 & nonphysical education- 250) college level male students, aged 18-25 years (mean 22.29 ± 2.21) were selected purposively selected as the samples of the study. Sargent vertical jump test and a standard adjustable digital handgrip dynamometer were used for measuring leg explosive power and handgrip strength respectively. Anthropometric measurements were taken for estimating % body fat, % skeletal muscle mass, lean body mass and body surface area of the selected subjects. The findings of the present study showing that physical education students have higher mean values in leg explosive power (P ≤ 0.01) and handgrip strength (P ≤ 0.01) than nonphysical education students. Leg explosive power had significantly positive correlation (P≤0.01) with % skeletal muscle mass and lean body mass and significantly negative correlation (P≤0.01) with rest of the body composition variables irrespective of physical education and non-physical education students. Handgrip strength had significantly positive correlations (P≤0.01) with all the body composition variables irrespective of physical education and non-physical education students. It may be concluded that physical activity has strong positive relationship with leg explosive power and handgrip strength.
Mul-scale reinforcements smulated dynamic recrystallizaon and mechanical behavior of as-extruded tanium matrix composites

: Diﬀerent volume fracon of TiB, TiC and La 2 O 3 mulple-reinforced Ti6Al4V composites were fabricated by casng and followed by forging and hot extrusion. The microstructural evoluon and mechanical behavior of (TiB+TiC+La 2 O 3 )/Ti6Al4V composites during hot extrusion were invesgated. The microstructural observaons showed that the TiB w and TiC p agglomeraon disappeared and distributed more homogeneously in the Ti matrix a�er hot extrusion. Besides, TiB w exhibited highly preferred alignment along the extrusion direcon and TiC p distributed along the same direcon. Besides, two kinds of microstructure bands with disncve spaal distribuons of reinforcements were formed a�er hot extrusion: equiaxial bands embedded with fairly substanal reinforcements and ﬁner basket-weave bands containing few reinforcements, in which the micron-scale TiB w , TiC p and submicron-scale La 2 O 3 parcle smulang nucleaon occurred and resulng dynamic recrystallizaon were the main mechanisms responsible for grain reﬁnement. The tensile tests revealed that hot extrusion signiﬁcantly increased elongaon of (TiB+TiC+La 2 O 3 )/Ti6Al4V composites from 2.71% to 13.2% accompanied by slightly decreasing ulmate tensile strength from 954MPa to 903MPa, compared with that of the as-forged composites, which due to a complex process of reinforcements/matrix interacon during extrusion and dynamic
Systemic analysis of genus Ipomoea by dint of eight complete sequenced chloroplast genomes

conducting a sliding window analysis, we found six relatively high variable regions ( ndhA intron, ndhH - ndhF , ndhF - rpl32 , rpl32 - trnL , rps16 - trnQ , and ndhF ) in the Ipomoea genus, eight ( trnG , rpl32 - trnL , ndhA intron, ndhF - rpl32 , ndhH - ndhF , ccsA - ndhD , trnG - trnR , and pasA - ycf3 ) in the Batatas group, and eight ( ndhA intron, petN - psbM , rpl32-trnL , trnG-trnR, trnK-rps16, ndhC-trnV, rps16-trnQ, and trnG ) in the Quamoclit group. Our maximum-likelihood tree based on whole chloroplast genomes confirmed the phylogenetic topology reported in previous studies. Conclusions . The chloroplast genome sequence and structure were highly conserved in the eight newly-sequenced Ipomoea species. Our comparative analysis included a broad range of Ipomoea chloroplast genomes, providing valuable information for Ipomoea species identification and enhancing the understanding of Ipomoea genetic resources. Abstract 19 Background . Ipomoea is the largest genus in the family Convolvulaceae. The species in this genus have been widely used in many fields, such as agriculture, nutrition, and medicine. With 21 the development of next-generation sequencing, more than fifty chloroplast genomes of Ipomoea 22 species have been sequenced. However, the repeats and divergence regions in Ipomoea have not 23 been well investigated. In the present study, we sequenced and assembled eight chloroplast 24 genomes from sweet potato’s closely wild relatives. By combining these with 32 published 25 chloroplast genomes, we conducted a detailed comparative analysis of a broad range of Ipomoea 26 species. 27 Methods . Eight chloroplast genomes were assembled using short DNA sequences generated by 28 next-generation sequencing technology. By combining these chloroplast genomes with 32 other 29 published Ipomoea chloroplast genomes downloaded from GenBank and the Oxford Research Archive (https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:yrYKneXED), we conducted a comparative analysis 31 of the repeat sequences and divergence regions across the Ipomoea genus. In addition, separate 32 analyses of the Batatas group and Quamoclit group were also performed. Results The eight newly sequenced chloroplast genomes ranged from 161,225 bp to 161,721 bp 34 in length and displayed the typical circular quadripartite structure, consisting of a pair of inverted 35 repeat (IR) regions (30,798–30,910 bp each) separated by a large single copy (LSC) region 36 (87,575–88,004 bp) and a small single copy (SSC) region (12,018–12,051 bp). The average guanine-cytosine LSC
Surgical Tips for Successful Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) has continuously evolved into an alternative to total shoulder arthroplasty for various shoulder disorders that cannot be managed with the traditional arthroscopic procedure. The indications have expanded and currently it is being used for multiple diagnoses. It has been developed continuously since original Grammont design, but still there is on debate over which model to choose and which is better. The purpose this mini-review is to describe several surgical tips for RTSA, as range of motion after reverse arthroplasty is not only affected by implant-related factors, but also surgeon’s technical factors such as retroversion of humeral component and soft tissue
Apparent DiŠusion Coe‹cients of Breast Tumors: Clinical Application

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of apparent diŠusion coe‹cient (ADC) for the diŠerential diagnosis of breast tumors and to determine the relation between ADC and tumor cellularity. Materials and Methods: One hundred and thirty-six female patients (age range, 17-83 years; average age, 51.7 years) with 140 histologically proven breast tumors underwent diŠusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging (DWI) using the spin-echo echo-pla-nar technique, and the ADCs of the tumors were calculated using 3 diŠerent b values, 0, 500, and 1000 s/mm 2 . The diagnoses consisted of ˆbroadenoma (FA, n ＝ 16), invasive ductal carcinoma, not otherwise speciˆed (IDC, n ＝ 117), medullary carcinoma (ME, n ＝ 3) and mucinous carcinoma (MU, n ＝ 4). Tumor cellularity was calculated from surgical specimens. The ADCs of breast tumors and cellularity were compared between diŠerent histological types by analysis of variance and ScheŠe's post hoc test. The correlation between tumor cellularity and ADC was analyzed by Pearson correlation test. Results: Signiˆcant diŠerences were observed in ADCs between FA and all types of cancers ( P º 0.05) and between MU and other types of cancers ( P º 0.01) and in cellularity between FA and cancers except MU ( P º 0.01) and between MU and other types of cancers ( P º 0.01). There was an inverse correlation between ADC and tumor cellularity ( P º 0.01, r 2 ＝ 0.451). Conclusions: The ADC may potentially help in diŠerentiating benign and malignant breast tumors. Tumor ADC correlates inversely with tumor cellularity.
Applying six sigma-process capability in predicting users satisfaction for excellence library service decision making

Six Sigma (6s) refers to a set of tools and methodologies developed to focus on reducing process variation and improve process capability . The main concept or cornerstone of 6s is the normal probability distribution, and sigma represents the standard deviation, which is a measure of the variability within a population around a mean.This paper attempts to enhance understanding of the application of 6s process capability in measuring library services.In addition, it tries to predict the process variation , productivity and process capability for academic library services.It is also significant for library staff to know the distribution of library users' satisfaction level and how they would be able to assist them in improving their library service.The study was conducted at Sultanah Bahiyah Library (SBL), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). The result of the study show both Cpk and Cp are 0.56. Since the value of Cpk and Cp are less than 1.00, the SBL is not capable to meet users' requirements. The conclusion can also be drawn that the collective results of these studies present the unique contributions of 6s process capability and play a significant role in measuring and predicting library services.Following detail analysis of preliminary study results, implications of this paper and suggestions for future research in the efforts to document the impact of 6s in library services are also presented.
Book-Tax Ratio and Earnings Quality of Listed Firms in Nigeria

 The main objective of this study is to examine the nature relationship between book-tax ratio and earnings quality of listed firms in Nigeria. The other specific objective is to assess the level of earnings quality of listed firms in Nigeria. The expo facto design was adopted for this study on 47 listed firms on the Nigeria Stock Exchange. This design relies on secondary data in exploring the relationship between book-tax ratio and earnings quality. The result revealed that book-tax ratio has no significant positive association with earnings quality of listed firms in Nigeria. This suggests that taxable income does not convey additional incremental information on earnings with respect to contemporaneous stock returns and accruals. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the few studies that have investigated the relationship between book-tax ratio and earnings quality in different sectors in Nigeria. The result has implication on capital market and earnings quality. Thus, the result of this study will be useful to capital market regulators, standard setters, and future
: Kansei Concepts for eCommerce Website Design in a Bicultural Environment – Recommendations for Interface Color Usage –

: Nowadays e-Commerce web designers face the problems to create systems that are not only usable but also appealing, and to improve the consumers’ interface persuasive power through engineering affective-appeal techniques. In order to contribute to meet this challenge, this study conducted two experimental studies focusing mainly on one perceptual feature, website color. Therefore, this researched took the aim to identify the most influential emotional and aesthetic Kansei factors for Japanese and Mexican young adults when evaluating sports-wear e-store interfaces and their color preferences, while correlating Kansei factors to individual colors. Results showed that the Japanese population was more critical depending on emotional arousal levels experienced on emotions such as, cheerfulness and excitement; while seeking aesthetics of consistency, dynamicity and modernity. However, only the role and impact of gender of an interface was effectively measured on the Mexican population. Colors preference similarities, with their individual Kansei interpretations, were successfully mapped for males and females. The main originality of these studies lay in the adoption of Kansei Engineering on the e-Commerce context as a systematic method to engineer consumers’ emotional and affective responses and incorporate them into new guidelines of web design.
DERLEME MAKALESİ BAL ARILARINDA SOSYAL VE BİREYSEL BAĞIŞIKLIK Social Immunity and Individual Immunity in Honey Bees

Honey bees play an important role in pollination in the natural ecosystem and agricultural field. Many biotic and abiotic stress factors such as pathogens (parasites, fungi, viruses and bacteria), ecosystem changes or losses, use of agricultural chemicals, alone or in combination, adversely affect the health and life of the bee colony. All these factors affect the immune system of the bees and change their defense mechanisms. Honey bees have a natural immune system consisting of physical barriers, generalized cellular and humoral immune response to protect themselves against infectious and parasitic agents. Pathogens, acaricides, fungicides, herbicides and other pesticides affect the bee immune system and hence bee health. Defense mechanisms of the bee immune system include signaling pathways, pathogen recognition receptors and innate immune system effectors. The risk of epidemic infection in honey bee colonies is reduced by individual and social immunity. Both types of immunity protect from diseases at various levels and play an important role in the formation of immune response against parasitic or other infectious diseases. ABSTRACT Goal: Honey bees have a natural immune system consisting of physical barriers, generalized cellular and humoral immune response to
Specific Inhibition of the Distribution of Lobeglitazone to the Liver by Atorvastatin in Rats: Evidence for an rOATP1B2-Mediated Interaction in Hepatic Transport

College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea (C.-.S. Y., Y.-S. J, S.Y. L., W. P., H.-M. R., and S.-J. C.) Korea Institute of Toxicology, 141 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-343, Republic of Korea (J.-H. L.) Life Science Research Center, Daewoong Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 449-814, Republic of Korea (K.-R. L.) College of Pharmacy, Gachon University, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea (H.-J. M.) This article has not been copyedited and formatted. The final version may differ from this version. DMD Fast Forward. Published on January 9, 2017 as DOI: 10.1124/dmd.116. 074120
PET-CT in Clinical Adult Oncology: II. Primary Thoracic and Breast Malignancies

Simple Summary Positron emission tomography (PET), typically combined with computed tomography (CT), has become a critical advanced imaging technique in oncology. With PET-CT, a radioactive molecule (radiotracer) is injected in the bloodstream and localizes to sites of tumor because of specific cellular features of the tumor that accumulate the targeting radiotracer. The CT scan, performed at the same time, provides information to facilitate assessment of the amount of radioactivity from deep or dense structures, and to provide detailed anatomic information. PET-CT has a variety of applications in oncology, including staging, therapeutic response assessment, restaging, and surveillance. This series of six review articles provides an overview of the value, applications, and imaging and interpretive strategies of PET-CT in the more common adult malignancies. The second article in this series addresses the use of PET-CT in breast cancer and other primary thoracic malignancies. Abstract Positron emission tomography combined with x-ray computed tomography (PET-CT) is an advanced imaging modality with oncologic applications that include staging, therapy assessment, restaging, and surveillance. This six-part series of review articles provides practical information to providers and imaging professionals regarding the best use of PET-CT for the more common adult malignancies. The second article of this series addresses primary thoracic malignancy and breast cancer. For primary thoracic malignancy, the focus will be on lung cancer, malignant pleural mesothelioma, thymoma, and thymic carcinoma, with an emphasis on the use of FDG PET-CT. For breast cancer, the various histologic subtypes will be addressed, and will include 18F fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), recently Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved 18F-fluoroestradiol (FES), and 18F sodium fluoride (NaF). The pitfalls and nuances of PET-CT in breast and primary thoracic malignancies and the imaging features that distinguish between subcategories of these tumors are addressed. This review will serve as a resource for the appropriate roles and limitations of PET-CT in the clinical management of patients with breast and primary thoracic malignancies for healthcare professionals caring for adult patients with these cancers. It also serves as a practical guide for imaging providers, including radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and their trainees.
Effect of Homogenization Modified Rice Protein on the Pasting Properties of Rice Starch

Modification of plant-based protein for promoting wide applications is of interest to the food industry. Rice protein from rice residues was modified by homogenization, and its effect on pasting properties (including gelatinization and rheology) of rice starch was investigated. The results showed that homogenization could significantly decrease the particle size of rice protein and increase their water holding capacity without changing their band distribution in SDS-PAGE. With the addition of protein/homogenized proteins into rice starch decreased peak viscosity of paste. The homogenized proteins decreased breakdown and setback value when compared with that of original protein, indicating homogenized protein might have potential applications for increasing the stability and inhibiting short-term retrogradation of starch paste. The addition of protein/homogenized proteins resulted in a reduction in the viscoelasticity behavior of starch paste. These results indicate that homogenization would create a solution to alter the physicochemical properties of plant proteins, and the homogenized proteins may be a potential candidate for development of protein-rich starchy products.
Implementation of patient‐reported outcome measures in a heart transplant recipient registry: First step toward a patient‐centered approach

Heart transplantation (HTX) is a well‐established treatment for suitable patients with end‐stage heart failure, intended to prolong their survival and improve their health‐related quality of life (HR‐QoL). No international consensus exists, however, about the preferred patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) and their measures (PROMs) for heart transplant recipients. The purpose of this study, the first step in a mixed‐method investigation, was to review the PROMs developed and used in this population to identify the instruments for measuring HR‐QoL and adherence to immunosuppressive medications most appropriate for heart transplant patients.
A Novel Control Scheme for T-Type Three-Level SSG Converters Using Adaptive PR Controller with a Variable Frequency Resonant PLL

In this paper, a novel quasi-direct power control (Q-DPC) scheme based on a resonant frequency adaptive proportional-resonant (PR) current controller with a variable frequency resonant phase locked loop (RPLL) is proposed, which can achieve a fast power response with a unity power factor. It can also adapt to variations of the generator frequency in T-type Three-level shaft synchronous generator (SSG) converters. The PR controller under the static α-β frame is designed to track ac signals and to avert the strong cross coupling under the rotating d-q frame. The fundamental frequency can be precisely acquired by a RPLL from the generator terminal voltage which is distorted by harmonics. Thus, the resonant frequency of the PR controller can be confirmed exactly with optimized performance. Based on an instantaneous power balance, the load power feed-forward is added to the power command to improve the anti-disturbance performance of the dc-link. Simulations based on MATLAB/Simulink and experimental results obtained from a 75kW prototype validate the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
The Dynamics of the Implementation of Organic Farming in Romania

Organic farming is a branch of interest in the context of the global economy oriented at reducing pollution, increasing food quality and reducing the impact on the environment. The objective of this research is to identify the main components of organic farming in Romania and their dynamics in the period 2010–2020 to identify changes in agricultural policy elements with an impact on the development strategy of Romanian agriculture in the medium term. The methodology used aims at the analytical and empirical research of the changes in the agricultural policy in the period 2010–2020 and the quantification of a statistical tool to evaluate the impact of these changes in the development of organic farming. The results are useful for decision makers to adopt viable medium-term strategies for organic farming.
Research on the Intrusion Detection Model of Underwater Sensor Networks

The characteristics of underwater nodes, the harshness of the underwater environment, and the openness of the deployment area make underwater sensor networks vulnerable to various network attacks; in order to defend against potential threats and attacks, intrusion detection, as an active defense technology, can detect different attacks before they occur; currently, the technology is less used in underwater sensor networks and has a low detection rate for some types of attacks and cannot effectively detect the problem of multiple attack types. To address this problem, this paper proposes an intrusion detection model for underwater sensor networks for multiple types of attacks. Firstly, cluster head nodes use neighborhood rough sets for feature extraction, and the reduced dimensional data is transmitted to sink nodes to reduce the node computation. Further, the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) is used to balance the data set, increase the number of minority class samples, and improve the detection rate of minority class attacks. Finally, determine whether a node is trusted according to the trust value of the cluster head node, and train the classifier using the random forest algorithm to detect the type of attack; it suffers to achieve intrusion detection of multiple types of attacks. Simulation results show that the model can not only improve the performance of intrusion detection of multitype attacks but also achieve an accuracy of over 99% for the detection of imbalance classes.