Rust is the main disease affecting Coffea arabica, most economically important coffee species. The objective of this study was to analyze C. arabica cultivars with different levels rust resistance, including bean size, raw appearance, final sensory scores (FSS), and aroma taste nuances cup. experiment designed in randomized blocks (RBD) three replications 20 treatments (cultivars), totaling 60 ...

Individual Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) have a great mechanical strength that needs to be transferred into macroscopic fiber assemblies. One approach to improve the mechanical strength of the CNT assemblies is by creating covalent bonding among their individual CNT building blocks. Chemical cross-linking of multiwall CNTs (MWCNTs) within the fiber has significantly improved the strength of MWCNT thr...

The pseudospectral abscissa and the stability radius are well-established tools for quantifying the stability of a matrix under unstructured perturbations. Based on first-order eigenvalue expansions, Guglielmi and Overton [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 32 (2011), pp. 1166-1192] recently proposed a linearly converging iterative method for computing the pseudospectral abscissa. In this paper, we pr...

Genomic DNA from two families with male limited precocious puberty was examined for mutations of the LH receptor gene. In family 1, several members of the pedigree have FMPP, whereas in family 2 there is only one affected subject. A point mutation (T --> C at nucleotide 1192) resulting in substitution of threonine for methionine 398 in the second transmembrane domain of the LH receptor protein ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a distinct cerebrovascular condition that represents 0.5-1% of all strokes in the general population. Because of its procoagulant and antifibrinolytic effects [Horne et al.: J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:4469-4473], hyperthyroidism has been proposed as a predisposing factor for CVT [Saposnik et al.: Stroke 2011;42:1158-1192]. For the first time, we describe...

Disrupting information coding via block of 4-AP sensitive potassium channels 1 2 Krishnan Padmanabhan 1, 2, 3 and Nathaniel N. Urban 1, 2, 4 3 4 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 5 15213 6 2. Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 7 3. present address, Crick Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational 8 Biology, Salk Ins...

The case of a 14 month old girl with primary pulmonary hypertension treated with domiciliary oxygen is described. After invasive evaluation and testing of nitric oxide with very good response, the testing was repeated to study the effect of inhaled iloprost on pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). An unexpected and severe increase of PVR was observed, rising from 392 dynes x s x cm(-5) with oxyg...