The peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) is the third most important fruit crop grown commercially after apple and pear in the temperate zones of world with total production of 20.0 million MT (USDA, 2016). In India, peach cultivation is confined to the warm temperate and sub-tropical parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttrakhand, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. I...

Essential oils from aerial parts of Mentha piperita, M. spicata, Thymus vulgaris, Origanum vulgare, O. applii, Aloysia triphylla, Ocimum gratissimum, O. basilicum were obtained by steam destillation using a Clevenger-type system. These oils were screened for antibacterial and anti-Candida albicans activity using bioautographic method. Subsequently, minimal inhibitory concentration from oils was...

This study was conducted in order to determine the relationship between air pollution and the varying prevalence of allergic diseases in the city of Taichung and the rural town of Chu-Shan. We used questionnaires to screen children aged from 7 to 15 years in Taichung and Chu-Shan and compared the results from these 2 areas with the factors related to air pollution. The study included 11,580 chi...

A fully reconfigurable photonic integrated signal processor Weilin Liu, Ming Li, Robert S. Guzzon, Erik J. Norberg, John S. Parker, Mingzhi Lu, Larry A. Coldren, and Jianping Yao* Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93116...

BACKGROUND The recently proposed recircumscription of the genus Atraphaxis (incl. Atraphaxis section Ovczinnikovia O.V. Yurtseva ex. S. Tavakkoli and Polygonum sect. Spinescentia Boissier (=A. sect. Polygonoides S. Tavakkoli, Kaz. Osaloo & Mozaff.) makes this genus fairly heterogeneous and therefore almost undefinable based on morphology. A critical comprehensive reappraisal of the group is nec...

4 According to another population-based study from Zhong-shan, Guangdong, China, the age-standardized incidence rates of CD and UC were 1.09 and 2.05 per 100,000 persons, respectively, between 2011 and 2012, which were slightly higher than those found in the Wuhan study. 4,5 These differences suggest that IBD incidence may vary even between districts within the same country. 4,5 A recent multin...

The molecular features of telomeric DNA were not consistent with any of the properties expected from the models for telomere replication that had become current in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, four lines of evidence led me to think that a new enzyme activity might work on telomeres to elongate them. Each consisted of molecular observations on telomeric DNA that could not be readily explained ...

subwavelength aluminum wire-grid polarizers Ming Ma, David S. Meyaard, Qifeng Shan, Jaehee Cho, E. Fred Schubert, Gi Bum Kim, Min-Ho Kim, and Cheolsoo Sone Future Chips Constellation, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA Future Chips Constellation, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Poly...