to evaluate fertility status and mating type distribution of cryphonectria parasitica, causal agent of chestnut blight in guilan province, four sites in two main growing regions of: shaft (visrud, taleghan and babarekab), and rezvanshahr (doran) were investigated. during the study, fifty four isolates of c. parasitica were examined. c. parasitica isolates were crossed with each of the two matin...

Metabolic alteration is a hallmark of cancer. Dysregulation of methionine metabolism is implicated in human liver cancer. Methionine adenosyltransferase IIα (MAT IIα) is a key enzyme in the methionine cycle, catalysing the production of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), a key methyl donor in cellular processes, and is associated with uncontrolled cell proliferation in cancer. Here we show that P300 a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of using sticky traps and the NS1 dengue antigen kit for the surveillance of Aedes mosquitoes for dengue control. METHODS Apartments were selected in a dengue-endemic area, and sticky traps were set to capture adult Aedes mosquitoes. NS1 dengue antigen kit was used to detect dengue antigen in mosquitoes, and positive mosquitoes were serotyped using rea...

This paper presents a real time force sensing instrument that is designed for human gait analysis purposes. It is capable of recording and monitoring ground reaction forces exerted by human foot during various activities such as walking, running and jumping in real time. In overall, force sensing mat mainly consists of three elements: the force sensing mat, signal conditioning circuit and data ...

In this study, the occurrence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in Brazilian agouti (Dasyprocta aguti) was compared by modified agglutination test (MAT) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) using anti-capybara conjugate. Sera from 109 animals were tested using MAT (1:25 cut-off) and IFAT (1:16 cut-off); 19% were positive by MAT, and 18% were positive by IFAT. Overall, the 17 IFAT-posi...

or perhaps a decade, Suc1 was the hardy little protein that featured in almost every cell cycle paper. But it was used only as a reagent—its binding to cyclindependent kinases (such as Cdc2 or Cdc28) yielded nearly pure MPF. Then the budding yeast version, called Cks1, was found to be essential for growth. Now, May Morris, Steven Reed, and colleagues (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, C...

Fingers lay fibers n page 553, Canty et al. show how cells use finger-like projections to lay down parallel arrays of collagen fibers that are many times the lengths of the cells. Parallel arrays of long collagen fibers give tendons their resistance and tensile properties. Thousands of collagen molecules self-assemble into fibers, but the fibers need instruction from their environment for align...

This paper evaluates competing sets of microfoundations on firms’ price-setting behaviour widely used in monetary economics. The contribution of this project is twofold. The first contribution is to use as inflation driver a relevant measure of marginal cost from wage microdata. To that end, I calculate the User Cost of Labor as in Basu and House (2016) for the first time in a different dataset...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of experimental determination of fiber bed permeability variation with porosity. Flow measurement experiments were designed to measure fiber mat permeability for fiber beds with various fiber volume fractions. Woven fiberglass, chopped fiberglass, and carbon fiber mats were used as reinforcements. The effects of reinforcement type and porosity on fiber ...

Studies of heterothallic and homothallic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have led to the suggestion that mating-type information is located at three distinct sites on chromosome 3, although only information at the mating-type (MAT) locus is expressed (Hicks, Strathern and Herskowitz, 1977). We have found that the recessive mutation cmt permits expression of the normally silent copies of mat...