To optimize light-emitting diode (LED) spectral recipes for gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii) seedling propagation, seed germination and morphology, biomass, flowering, storage quality were observed in four cultivars, ‘Midi Dark Purple’, ‘Majorette Red Eye’, ‘Maxi Pink’, White’, under six spectrum treatments: (1) FL, cool white fluorescent light; (2) RB, a photon flux ratio of 85% red 15% blue (RB-LE...

The top quark is well known for the nondecoupling effects it implies in ρ and Rb. The recent experimental Rb data exhibits a disagreement with the SM prediction at more than the 3σ level. It is tempting to explore whether this might be due to nondecoupling New Physics effects, opposite to those of the top. We investigate this issue in the context of models with an extra family of right or left ...

By means of galaxy evolutionary models, we explore the direct consequences of the Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) cosmogony on the size evolution of galactic discs, avoiding intentionally the introduction of intermediate (uncertain) astrophysical processes. Based on the shape of the rotation curves and guided by a simplicity criterion, we adopt an average galaxy mass baryon fraction fgal = 0.03. In o...

Purpose : to study the level of LAG-3 expression on B-lymphocytes and feasibility using it as a marker for predicting response therapy in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Material Methods . The included 40 newly diagnosed CLL. All were divided into two groups: group I: Binet stage A, who did not receive II: C, received immunochemotherapy RB FCR regimes. According treatment regi...

Introduction . Early diagnosis of oncological diseases is one the most important tasks public health, because improves quality medical care for patients and prognosis disease. Despite advances in oncology, pediatric tumors continue to be diagnosed at advanced stages, which may associated with a delayed visit doctor delay due several factors. Many foreign articles are devoted search analysis sig...

Given a planar convex body B centered at the origin, we denote by M(B) the Minkowski plane (i.e., two-dimensional linear normed space) with the unit ball B. For a triangle T in M(B) we denote by RB(T ) the least possible radius of a Minkowskian ball enclosing T. We remark that in terms of location science RB(T ) is the optimum of the minimax location problem with distance induced by B and verti...

Worldwide, there is growing interest in the use of pharmaceutical baits to control populations of wild pigs (Sus scrofa). In this study we evaluated the utility of Rhodamine B (RB), a chemical marker commonly used in wildlife research and management, as a potential biomarker for quantifying bait uptake in wild pigs. Thirty wild pigs were live-trapped, transported to a captive facility on the De...

Previously, we reported that retigeric acid B (RB), a natural pentacyclic triterpenic acid isolated from lichen, inhibited cell growth and induced apoptosis in androgen-independent prostate cancer (PCa) cells. However, the mechanism of action of RB remains unclear. In this study, we found that using PC3 and DU145 cells as models, RB inhibited phosphorylation levels of IκBα and p65 subunit of NF...

BACKGROUND Cardiomyocyte (CM) cell cycle analysis has been impeded because of a reliance on primary neonatal cultures of poorly proliferating cells or chronic transgenic animal models with innate compensatory mechanisms. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We describe an in vitro model consisting of monolayer cultures of highly proliferative embryonic stem (ES) cell-derived CM. Following induction...

In this paper we construct a unique representation basis whose growth is more than x1/2−ε for infinitely many positive integers x , which solves a problem posed by Nathanson in [M.B. Nathanson, Unique representation bases for the integers, Acta Arith. 108 (2003) 1–8]. c © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. MSC: 11B13; 11B34; 11B05 Let A be a set of integers, and let rA(n) = #{(a, b) : a, b...