BACKGROUND Polygonum minus Huds.is a culinary flavouring that is common in South East Asian cuisine and as a remedy for diverse maladies ranging from indigestion to poor eyesight. The leaves of this herb have been reported to be high in antioxidants. Flavonoids which have been associated with memory, cognition and protection against neurodegeneration were found in P. minus. METHOD This study ...

This work aims to identify the impacts of vermicompost leachate (VCL) toward its salt resistance stress in plants. Young Capsicum annuum L seedlings were subjected salinity (160 mM NaCl added a nutrient solution) over course seven days during or following adding 7 mL L−1 VCL. The exposure resulted notable decrease dry and fresh leaf weights, K+ concentrations, water content; whereas root ...

Upright immersion imposes a pressure imbalance across the thorax. This study examined the effects of air-delivery pressure on inspiratory muscle work during upright immersion. Eight subjects performed respiratory pressure-volume relaxation maneuvers while seated in air (control) and during immersion. Hydrostatic, respiratory elastic (lung and chest wall), and resultant static respiratory muscle...

In this paper, we give upper bounds on the upper signed domination number of [l, k] graphs, which generalize some results obtained in other papers. Further, good lower bounds are established for the minus ksubdomination number γ−101 ks and signed k-subdomination number γ −11 ks .

A minus end checkpoint B oth ends of microtubules get in on spindle checkpoint signaling. From kinetochores, proteins at microtubule plus ends relay the results of proper spindle-tochromosome attachments. Now, Hannah Müller, Bodo Lange (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany), and colleagues fi nd that, at minus ends, γ-tubulin signals that all is well with microtubule nuc...

where d is a positive integer, 0≤ i< d and r0,r1, . . .rd−1 are rational numbers, such that the famous 3x+1 conjecture holds if and only if the R-orbit of 2n contains 2 for all positive integers n. We then show that the R-orbit of an arbitrary positive integer is a constant multiple of an orbit that contains a power of 2. Finally we apply our main result to show that any cycle {x0, . . . ,xm−1}...

We describe the image of the absolute Galois group acting on the pro-l completion of the fundamental group of the Gm minus Nth roots of unity. We relate the structure of the image with geometry and topology of modular varieties for the congruence subgroups 01(m; N ) of GLm(Z) for m = 1, 2, 3 . . . .

The possible role of histidine residues in the catalytic function of carboxypeptidase Y from bakers' yeast has been investigated using site-specific reagents. Among the reagents tested, benzyloxy-L-phenylalanylchloromethane (Z-PheCH2Cl) was the most powerful inhibitor of the enzyme. It irreversibly inactivated both the peptidase and esterase activities with an apparent second order rate constan...