The interactions of Heterodera glycines at four egg inoculum levels (0, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 per pot) and three cyst levels (0, 100, and 200 per pot) and Calonectria crotalariae at 500, 5,000, and 50,000 microsclerotia per pot were evaluated on soybean. At the two lowest nematode egg levels, the presence of C. crotalariae did not affect nematode reproduction. At 10,000 eggs per pot, however, ...

OBJECTIVE Characterisation of anticoagulant control is fundamental to investigations of its association with clinical outcome. Anticoagulant control depends on several factors. This paper aims to illustrate the implications of different methods for measuring and analysing anticoagulant control in patients with second generation mechanical heart valve prostheses. METHODS International normalis...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Sputum acid-fast bacilli (AFB) microscopy services are not available in all health facilities. Alternative procedures are needed to transport sputum samples to the diagnostic centres for detection of AFB. The objective of the present study was to evaluate sputum smears made by pot-method with the direct smears made immediately after sputum collection by Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The recalcitrance of lignocellulosic cell wall biomass to deconstruction varies greatly in angiosperms, yet the source of this variation remains unclear. Here, in eight genotypes of short rotation coppice willow (Salix sp.) variability of the reaction wood (RW) response and the impact of this variation on cell wall recalcitrance to enzymatic saccharification was conside...

A tandem electrosynthesis of homoallylic alcohols from alcohols in one-pot was realized. In virtue of this one-pot electrosynthesis, the traditional reaction substrates of allylation were broadened from carbonyl compounds to alcohols.

Method We designed a three-armed, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Patients received mometasone furoate nasal spray (EIT group: n=25), placebo (n=25), or 4 weeks of placebo followed by 8 weeks of mometasone (POT group: n=25) for a 12-week period starting on February 1, 2011. The primary endpoint was the comparison of the total nasal symptom score (TNSS) among the three grou...

The goal of this study is to prospectively assess the additional value of oblique reformatted images for localizing POT, having surgery as a reference standard. Materials and Methods. 102 consecutive patients with suspected small bowel obstruction (SBO) underwent 64-slice multidetector row CT (MDCT) using surgical findings as reference standard. Two independent GI radiologists reviewed the CT s...

We designed a facile one-pot method to synthesize iron oxide/activated carbon nanotubes (IO/ACNTs) using as-prepared carbon nanotubes (APCNTs) modified by alkali solid-activation. The open-ended CNTs and iron oxide loading could be realized in one step. The resulting IO/ACNT hybrids, as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), exhibited high reversible lithium storage capacity and ex...

zinc (zn) and copper (cu) are essential elements and increased plant growth in low concentrations. while high concentrations of these elements as a limiting factor, can cause adverse symptoms on the plants. in the present study, the uptake of micronutrient and macronutrient by pennyroyal were studied in a zn and cu deficiency and toxicity in soil. three levels of copper (0, 5 and 25 mg/kg) and ...