BACKGROUND Wild radish, a problem weed worldwide, is a severe dicotyledonous weed in crops. In Australia, sustained reliance on ALS-inhibiting herbicides to control this species has led to the evolution of many resistant populations endowed by any of several ALS mutations. The molecular basis of ALS-inhibiting herbicide resistance in a novel resistant population was studied. RESULTS ALS gene ...

Future of Avian Genetic Resources Collections: Archives of Evolutionary and Environmental History.—In the past 30 years, genetic resources collections (GRCs) have shiĞ ed position within ornithology, from a novel supplement to traditional voucher collections to a major core source of raw material fueling multiple subdisciplines. The demand for specimens from GRCs now greatly exceeds both the de...

the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development indicates that in most cases, inserting tubes in the eardrums—a procedure called tympanostomy— of children under age 3 who have fluid in the middle ear has no measurable effect on improving their speech, language, cognitive, or psychosocial development at age 3. Fluid in the middle ea...

EMPs Extended morphological profiles EMPs Extended morphological profiles LDA Linear discriminant analysis LogDA Logarithmic discriminant analysis MLR Multinomial logistic regression MLRsubMRF Subspace-based multinomial logistic regression followed by Markov random fields MPs Morphological profiles MRFs Markov random fields PCA Principal component analysis QDA Quadratic discriminant analysis RH...

Objective: To evaluate the need for sexual counseling among patients with heart disease Materials and Methods: Data were collected from 363 attending a cardiac rehabilitation outpatient clinic. Participants completed questionnaire independently. Results: The participants consisted of 241 males (66.4%) 122 females (33.6%) mean age 57.69±14.50 years. Among them, 248 (68.3%) married. Most (91.2%) ...

QCs (glutaminyl cyclases; glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferases, EC 2.3.2.5) catalyse N-terminal pyroglutamate formation in numerous bioactive peptides and proteins. The enzymes were reported to be involved in several pathological conditions such as amyloidotic disease, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and melanoma. The crystal structure of human QC revealed an unusual H-bond (hydrogen-bond) n...

a simple, sensitive, accurate and precise simultaneous uv spectrophotometric method has been developed for the estimation of carisoprodol, paracetamol and caffeine in tablet dosage form. the absorption maxima of the drugs were found to be 221, 248 and 273 nm for carisoprodol, paracetamol and caffeine respectively, in methanol, using a double beam uv/visible spectrophotometer. carisoprodol, para...

Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) play an important role in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) pathogenicity. The distribution of PAIs OI-122, OI-43/48, and OI-57 and a high-pathogenicity island (HPI) were determined among 98 STEC strains assigned to seropathotypes (SPTs) A to E. PCR and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism assays were used to identify 14 virulence genes that belo...