The Q gene is largely responsible for the widespread cultivation of wheat because it confers the free-threshing character. It also pleiotropically influences many other domestication-related traits such as glume shape and tenacity, rachis fragility, spike length, plant height, and spike emergence time. We isolated the Q gene and verified its identity by analysis of knockout mutants and transfor...

Based on the associated network of passenger and freight transport in New Western Land-Sea Corridor, structure characteristics different years are analyzed using volume volume, resilience is disturbance model. Finally, coordinated development logistics discussed by applying a coupling coordination The results show that, from 2000 to 2018, Corridor has realized evolution spatial pattern “two cen...

The focus of this work was to investigate the cellulose acetate (CA)–viscose (CV) interface in an all-cellulosic compound and evaluate feasibility hydrophobic CA-coatings on viscose fibers. Mechanical strengths foil-CA compounds were investigated by recoding stress-to-strain curves. For equivalent strain, composites generate higher stress than pure CA samples. coating CV fibers, fibers pretreat...

On 19 September 2012, what has so far been the largest known foodborne outbreak of gastroenteritis in Germany broke out in various schools and childcare establishments in the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. A total of more than 11,000 children and youths suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting. Epidemiological studies conducted by the Robert Koch Institu...

The authors provide examples of sports-based youth development programs and offer information about program mission and vision, program design and content, evaluation results, and program sustainability. The four sports-based youth development programs presented are Harlem RBI, Tenacity, Snowsports Outreach Society, and Hoops & Leaders Basketball Camp. These programs serve diverse audiences wit...

Personality can play a large role in dispersal decisions, influencing how each individual estimates and values expected costs versus benefits of venturing out to explore the unknown. We contrast the impact of persistence on fitness using decision theory models to examine the relative success of prospecting movement (which is a widespread behavior used by animals to explore available breeding ha...

Decisions on the conservation and display of a textile, including prioritisation for treatment, should be informed by objective knowledge of its current physical state. Measuring the tenacity and elasticity of yarns and fabric, however, generally requires sampling and is necessarily destructive. Bearing in mind the need to maintain the integrity of the artifact, an indirect approach requiring a...

Implementation intentions (if-then plans) help people to automatically perform goaldirected behaviors when they encounter goal-relevant critical situations. Besides the intended beneficial effects on goal attainment, however, goal-directed behaviors might entail various costs. Successful goal striving then requires flexible tenacity: tenaciously holding on to behaviors that inflict bearable cos...

Curdlan was acetylated with a low degree of substitution (DS), and the reaction solution subjected to wet spinning. The curdlan acetate fibres showed changes in crystalline structure wet-to-dry tenacity at DS exceeding 0.8.