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Increasing drought resistance of Alnus subcordata C.A. Mey. seeds using a nano priming technique with multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

To evaluate the effects of nano priming on seed germination of Alnus subcordata (Caucasian alder) C.A. von Meyer under drought stress, the present research was conducted using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs; 0, 10, 30, 50, and 100 mg.l-1) at 6 levels of drought stress (0, -2, -4, -6, -8, and -10 bar) through a factorial experiment (5 priming levels with 4 replications). After priming, the seeds were placed into a germinator at 21°C. Results revealed that nano priming at the concentration of 100 mg.l-1 led to the highest germination rate and percentage at all levels of drought stress. Also, the highest values of seed vigour index and root and stem lengths and dry weights were observed at nano carbon treatment with 30 mg.l-1. Considering the obtained results, it was concluded that nano priming could result in boosted resistance of Caucasian alder seeds against drought stress, so that the seed tolerance increased from -4 bar (without nano priming treatment, i.e. reference sample) to -8 bar upon applying 100 mg.l-1 nanotubes. Based on the results of the present research, it is suggested that the seed nano priming technique with MWCNTs can be applied in order to increase the seed and seedling tolerance of other members of the genus Alnus Miller.
Neuropeptide Y Reduces Dog Coronary Blood Flow by Increased Small Vessel Resistance

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Conference Abstract| December 01 1987 Neuropeptide Y Reduces Dog Coronary Blood Flow by Increased Small Vessel Resistance J. Clarke; J. Clarke 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar S. Larkin; S. Larkin 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar O. Osinawa; O. Osinawa 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar G.J. Davies; G.J. Davies 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar K. Taylor; K. Taylor 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar A. Maseri A. Maseri 1Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Clin Sci (Lond) (1987) 73 (s17): 6P. https://doi.org/10.1042/cs073006Pb Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation J. Clarke, S. Larkin, O. Osinawa, G.J. Davies, K. Taylor, A. Maseri; Neuropeptide Y Reduces Dog Coronary Blood Flow by Increased Small Vessel Resistance. Clin Sci (Lond) 1 December 1987; 73 (s17): 6P. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/cs073006Pb Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsClinical Science Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1987 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society1987 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
[Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis--personal experience].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis is a rare entity with obscure etiology. A review of literature concerning clinical appearance, diagnostics and management of this condition is presented. Own material embraces a group of 7 children who have chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis. Mean follow-up was 2.5 years. On the basis of results achieved the authors believe this condition is of good prognosis and should be differentiated with chronic osteomyelitis and neoplastic changes.
Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Ductus Arteriosus Constriction

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract The ductus arteriosus is an important structure in the fetal circulation. It connects the pulmonary artery to the arch of the aorta distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery and carries most of the right ventricular output. Patency of the ductus arteriosus is maintained by factors like prostaglandin E2, nitric oxide and low oxygen tension of the blood. With the advent of ultrasonography and Spectral Doppler, many cases of ductal constriction have been reported. It can be idiopathic but is usually secondary to the use of medication like NSAIDs, isoxsuprine, fluoxetine and also some particular foods rich in polyphenol like herbal teas, dark chocolate, berries and coffee. Idiopathic ductal constriction is a rare finding. Ductus arteriosus constriction occurs largely due to inhibition of the prostaglandin synthetase pathway as the ductus arteriosus becomes more sensitive to prostaglandin inhibitors in later gestation. It is, therefore, more commonly seen in the 3rd trimester. Because of fetal hyperdynamic compromise, it results in tricuspid regurgitation, right ventricular hypertrophy and ultimately right ventricular failure, hydrops, pulmonary hypertension and even intrauterine fetal death. We present a series of ductus arteriosus constriction, of which 3 cases were associated with tricuspid regurgitation, 1 case with right sided dominance of the heart and 1 case with moderate to severe right ventricular hypertrophy. Mild cases require close fetal monitoring and severe cases may need urgent delivery. Postnatal prognosis seems to be good in cases of ductal constriction associated with right heart abnormalities as right heart abnormalities resolve in a couple of weeks, although pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure are major concerns. Preventive measures include avoiding the use of NSAIDs and other medications especially in the 3rd trimester and changes in maternal dietary habits.
Public Expenditure and Indian Development Policy 1960–1970

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Of the many different ways in which economists have tried to analyse public expenditure, the most relevant to Indian economic development is that which links the level of public expenditure with the rate at which the state can accumulate capital. The abstract theory of this link, however, must be complemented by a historical account of the degree to which a state accumulation policy was understood by Indian policy makers, and of the other (often inconsistent) elements in the economic strategy of Indian nationalism. After attempting to provide accounts both of the abstract theory and of the institutional and policy context within which it was applied, this book analyses original empirical data on public expenditure in India between 1960 and 1970. The real growth rate of public expenditure, its functional and economic composition at the all-India level are presented, and the strong contrast between the patterns of the first and last five year periods is elucidated. The effect of the 1965-67 droughts and bad harvests in producing this contrast is assessed
World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

World Changescontains papers presented at a 1990 conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, devoted to the work of historian and philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn. Among those whose business is thinking about the nature and history of science, Kuhn's 1962 classicThe Structure of Scientific Revolutionsis beyond question the most widely influential book of this era. Structurewas written against the backdrop of the dominant positivistic view that science proceeds by the hyperrational process of strictly deriving observational predictions from candidate theories and then testing them against observations made in experimental settings. In this manner, crucial experiments effectively decide among competing theories, and science gradually converges upon the univocal truths of nature. The positivists themselves were among the first to see the logical and epistemological problems with this simplistic view, but responded by developing probabilistic accounts of confirmation and language-relative accounts of observation to shore it
VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES IN INDIA

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Vectors are transmitted diseases from person to person that diseases are known as vactor borne diseases. There are mainly six vector borne diseases present in India, tropical and subtropical rigion also. As per current medical importance, geographic distribution, epidemiology and potential spreading of vector borne diseases, Malaria total cases were 29340 and deaths 2 and Japanese encephalitis total cases were 111. Chikungunya and Kala azar total cases were 700 and no deaths were found in 2020 respectively. 87.25% of MDA were supplied to total population and the dengue cases were 136422 and deaths 132 were observed in 2019. The vector borne diseases in India are reviewed in this article.
Alternative ideas in cosmology

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Some remarkable examples of alternative cosmological theories are reviewed here, ranging from a compilation of variations on the Standard Model through the more distant quasi-steady-state cosmology, plasma cosmology, or universe models as a hypersphere, to the most exotic cases including static models. The present-day standard model of cosmology, Lambda-CDM, gives us a representation of a cosmos whose dynamics is dominated by gravity with a finite lifetime, large scale homogeneity, expansion and a hot initial state, together with other dark elements necessary to avoid certain inconsistencies with observations. There are however some models with characteristics that are close to those of the standard model but differing in some minor aspects: different considerations on CP violation, inflation, number of neutrino species, quark-hadron phase transition, baryonic or non-baryonic dark-matter, dark energy, nucleosynthesis scenarios, large-scale structure formation scenarios; or major variations like a inhomogeneous universe, Cold Big Bang, varying physical constants or gravity law, zero-active mass (also called `R_h=ct'), Milne, and cyclical models. At the most extreme distance from the standard model, the static models, a non-cosmological redshift includes `tired-light' hypotheses, which assume that the photon loses energy owing to an intrinsic property or an interaction with matter or light as it travels some distance, or other non-standard ideas. Our impression is that none of the alternative models has acquired the same level of development as Lambda-CDM in offering explanations of available cosmological observations. One should not, however, judge any theory in terms of the number of observations that it can successfully explain (ad hoc in many cases) given the much lower level of development of the alternative ones.
Associations of Gain in Weight-Related Anthropometric Indices with a Marker of Lipid Peroxidation: A Cohort Study Among Urban Adults in China

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Tao Xu,1,2 Bin Wang,1,2 Limin Cao,1,2 Weihong Qiu,1,2 Zhuang Zhang,1,2 Ailian Chen,1,2 Weihong Chen1,2 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, People&amp;rsquo;s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, People&amp;rsquo;s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Weihong ChenDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, People&amp;rsquo;s Republic of ChinaTel +86 27 83691677Email wchen@mails.tjmu.edu.cnBackground: Obesity is reported to be associated with oxidative stress which can cause lipid peroxidation. However, the effects of gain in various weight-related anthropometric indices on lipid peroxidation remain unclear. We aimed to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between altered weight-related anthropometric indices and a marker of lipid peroxidation among urban adults in China.Methods: A total of 3762 participants from the Wuhan-Zhuhai cohort were included in the present study, with a follow-up of 3 years. Six weight-related anthropometric indicators were measured and calculated, including waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), a body shape index (ABSI), and body adiposity index (BAI). Individual urinary 8-iso-prostaglandin-F2&amp;alpha; (8-iso-PGF2&amp;alpha;) was determined via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to evaluate lipid peroxidation. We used generalized linear models to analyze the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of weight-related anthropometric indices with a marker of lipid peroxidation and stratified analyses to estimate effect modification.Results: We found significant relationships between WHR, WHtR, ABSI, and urinary 8-iso-PGF2&amp;alpha; at baseline. Each 1% increase in WHR, WHtR, and ABSI was significantly associated with a 0.007, 0.004, and 0.104 increase in log-transformed 8-iso-PGF2&amp;alpha; concentration, respectively (P&amp;lt; 0.05). In longitudinal analysis, positive dose&amp;ndash;response relationships were observed between gains in BMI, BAI, and increased 8-iso-PGF2&amp;alpha; after adjusting for potential confounders (Ptrend&amp;lt; 0.05). We also found that gender and smoking status modified the association of BMI gain and 8-iso-PGF2&amp;alpha; increment, and such an association was more obvious in female and non-smokers.Conclusion: Our research implied that gain in anthropometric indices may result in a higher level of lipid peroxidation.Keywords: weight-related anthropometric indices, lipid peroxidation, obesity, cohort study
Depression, traumatic dissociation and epileptic-like phenomena.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Assessed relationship between traumatization, depression and epileptic-like phenomena in the patients who met cut-off score for epilepsy spectrum disorder can contribute to the problem of indication of several depressive patients to anticonvulsant therapy because of reported evidence that a clear majority of patients with epilepsy spectrum disorder respond well to anticonvulsant treatment. Careful assessment of this test battery thus may be useful also for anticonvulsant treatment strategy.
Embedded Java on ARMlinux

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Java technology for the embedded system is widely developed as the results of increasing of usage of the embedded system. The characteristics of Java, such as threading support, portability, and independence of platform, can enhance the performance of the embedded system. However, currently, there is no Java platform or Java environment which is able to support every embedded platform yet. Moreover, for some embedded platforms which have small memory space, it is impossible to implement full range of Java Environment and applications since Java has a large size of the class library. The objective of this project is to implement an open source Java Virtual Machine to enhance the performance of the embedded platform by using the ARM-based processor with Linux Operating System Embedded Platform from SIMTech as the target platform for this project. In this project, the selected Java Virtual Machines from the selection process are implemented and tested by running the provided Java applications. As the results, Java Virtual Machines with necessary environment are available for running Java applications on the target platform. Guidelines of implementation and troubleshooting the selected Java Virtual Machines are provided. Furthermore, the limitations, the embedded platform’s performance and the suggestions of further works are also discussed.
Program evaluation and chronic diseases: methods, approaches, and implications for public health.

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

As the burden of chronic diseases in the United States continues to increase, greater efforts are being made to identify and implement interventions that successfully reduce disease risk, improve access to high-quality health care, and create sustainable health-promotion programs that ultimately improve health status and quality of life (1). Identifying effective primary and secondary prevention strategies through tailored program evaluation efforts has become an essential public health function in clinical and public health settings (2). Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) address various aspects of program evaluation, such as planning, methods, approaches, stakeholder involvement, and the use of program evaluation findings to guide the direction of future programs.

The articles presented in this issue have three primary goals: 1) to provide the reader with practical examples of program evaluation that can be immediately applied in other settings; 2) to carefully discuss the way program missions and objectives, stakeholder interests, evaluation theory, and evaluation methods are considered when conducting, analyzing, and reporting the status of program outcomes; and 3) to candidly explore the use of evaluation frameworks, logic models, and organizational strategic planning to increase capacity for routinely monitoring program outcomes at the national, state, and community levels.
The Exploitation of Women in Evolutionary Perspective

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

In the previous issue of Critique of Anthropology, I tried to lay a philosophical and theoretical foundation for a scientific analysis of social evolution.Essentially, I suggested an empirical approach to Marxist anthropology, and I urged the application of criteria of radical materialism in the evaluation of our most prominent concepts and theories.In particular, I criticized certain libertarian notions among Marxists, especially Engels and Hindess and Hirst (1975).In this second article, I wish to return to a criticism of libertarian ideas, not polemically or in the abstract as before, but by reference to ethnographic data, following my own suggestions on the utility of an empirical approach.
Tumors of the kidney in cattle, sheep and pigs

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

This paper describes the incidence and histopathology of primary tumors of the kidney in slaughtered cattle, sheep and pigs encountered during a 12-month survey of all neoplasms found in 100 abattoirs throughout Great Britain. A total of 302 bovine, 107 ovine and 139 porcine tumors were examined. In cattle 11 (3.6%) were primary renal tumors (8.5 per million animals). In sheep 4 (3.7%) were renal tumors (0.9 per million animals) while in pigs the results were 16 (11.5%) and 4.3 per million. Secondary tumors involving the kidney outnumbered primaries in all species. The most common secondary tumor was lymphosarcoma. Histologically most bovine primary renal tumors were carcinomas—clear cell' carcinomas, tubular and papillary adenocarcinomas or pleomorphic acidophilic carcinomas. These were not separate types, however, and a transition from the clear cell to the tubular and papillary forms was apparent in many. In sheep all four specimens were renal carcinomas; a similar transition between variants was observed. In pigs most renal tumors were nephroblastomas, showing all of the well-known features of this neoplasm. Many renal carcinomas had metastasized, usually to the renal and sublumbar lymph nodes and sometimes involving lung, liver, peritoneum and bronchomediastinal lymph nodes. There was no evidence of any sex predisposition to renal neoplasia and no association between tumors of the kidney and the presence of any other renal disease.
Session 1: Colon cancer – 10 years behind the rectum

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract The improvements in surgical technique brought about by the widespread adoption of total mesorectal excision plane dissection in rectal cancer has substantially improved survival and recurrence rates from this disease. For the first time in 50 years, the outcomes in rectal cancer have overtaken those of colon cancer. Professor Madoff's overview lecture and the experts’ round table discussion address whether applying the surgical principles already achieved in rectal cancer can meet with similar success in colon cancer, how this can be achieved and the challenges we face.
Greenhouse gas emissions from rice farming inputs: a cross-country assessment

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

SUMMARY Regardless of the irrigation system deployed, rice production requires a variety of farm energy inputs. The present study estimated and compared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice farming practices, resulting from various farm inputs and irrigation systems in Pakistan, the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Australia and the USA. Results indicate that, on aggregate, emissions related to farm machinery, fuels, agrochemicals and animal labour accounted for 0·018, 0·307, 0·666 and 0·008, respectively. Emissions from tubewell irrigation systems were the highest, followed by canal and rainfed irrigation systems. Average emissions from all selected countries with tubewell irrigation systems were 1·64 times greater than canal irrigation systems and 2·64 times greater than rainfed irrigation systems. When considering GHG emission efficiencies (emissions/kg of rice yield), developing countries were found to be less efficient than developed countries in both canal and tubewell irrigation systems. The relationship between GHG emissions and rice yield was statistically significant ( P <0·01), with results indicating that a yield increase of 100 kg would increase GHG emissions by 16·51 kg CO 2 e (kg carbon dioxide equivalent).