BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to determine reproducibility and relative validity of the Short QUestionnaire to ASsess Health-enhancing physical activity (SQUASH). METHODS Participants (36 men and 14 women, aged 27-58) were asked to complete the SQUASH twice with an inbetween period of approximately 5 weeks. In addition, participants wore the Computer Science and Applicati...

Recent declines in managed honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colonies have increased interest in the current and potential contribution of wild bee populations to the pollination of agricultural crops. Because wild bees often live in agricultural fields, their population density and contribution to crop pollination may be influenced by farming practices, especially those used to reduce the populati...

A 35 year old semiprofessional squash player developed the symptoms and signs of an arteriovenous fistula of the left superficial temporal vessels after a squash ball injury. This was sufficiently symptomatic to halt his intensive training programme and required exploration, ligation and excision. Although a rare injury from any cause this would have been prevented by protective headgear.

Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) is one of the important vegetable species preferred by people Turkey in terms their nutritional value. F1 hybrid summer varieties are widely used both open field and protected cultivation. The majority these come from abroad, our dependence on abroad continues. In this study, effectiveness dihaploidization method, which has an place variety breeding studies, wa...

Bromphenol blue, which was reduced with dithionite, was found to support nitrate reduction catalyzed by squash NADH:nitrate reductase at a rate about 5 times greater than NADH with freshly prepared enzyme and 10 times or more with enzyme having been frozen and thawed. Kinetic analysis of bromphenol blue as a substrate for squash nitrate reductase yielded apparent K(m) values of 60 micromolar fo...

Nucleotide sequences were determined for cDNA clones for squash NADH:nitrate oxidoreductase (EC 1.6.6.1), which is one of the most completely characterized forms of this higher plant enzyme. An open reading frame of 2754 nucleotides began at the first ATG. The deduced amino acid sequence contains 918 residues, with a predicted Mr = 103,376. The amino acid sequence is very similar to sequences d...