Strawberry plants exhibiting symptoms of stunting and abnormally small leaves were observed in production fields in central Florida, USA. Since the symptoms were suggestive of phytoplasma infection, plants were assayed for presence of phytoplasma by PCR amplification of 16S rDNA and ribosomal protein (rp) gene sequences. Amplification of phytoplasma-specific DNA sequences by PCR indicated infec...

Several reproducibility probability (RP)-estimators for the binomial, sign, Wilcoxon signed rank and Kendall tests are studied. Their behavior in terms of MSE is investigated, as well as their performances for RP-testing. Two classes of estimators are considered: the semi-parametric one, where RP-estimators are derived from the expression of the exact or approximated power function, and the non...

Software developers often encapsulate reusable code as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The co-evolution of applications and APIs may motivate an API migration: the replacement of application dependencies to an original API by dependencies to an alternative API that provides similar functionality and abstractions. In this dissertation, we investigate issues associated with API migrati...

pregabalin (prg) is a new antiepileptic drug and aceclofenac (ace) is a potent non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. these drugs in combination are used for treatment of partial seizures and neuropathic pains. a simple and precise assay method by rp-hplc was developed and validated for estimation of prg and ace in acenac-n tablet. analyses of commercial tablet, acenac-n were performed using jas...

low molecular weight organic acids are most predominant in apple juice among these components fumaric acid was not exceed more than 5 ppm. it was thought that the hplc is the best method of the determination of organic acids in the apple juice. in this study, chromatographic separation of organic acids of apple juice was obtained by preparing a sample and by applying them to acid phase for extr...

a simple and reliable stability-indicating rp-hplc method was developed and validated for analysis of adefovir dipivoxil (adv).the chromatographic separation was performed on a c18 column using a mixture of acetonitrile-citrate buffer (10 mm at ph 5.2) 36:64 (%v/v) as mobile phase, at a flow rate of 1.5 ml/min. detection was carried out at 260 nm and a sharp peak was obtained for adv at a reten...

an environmentally benign rp-hplc approach for rapid analysis of glibenclamide in pure form, developed nanoemulsion and commercial tablets was developed and validated in present investigation. the green chromatographic identification was performed on lichrosphere 250 x 4.0 mm rp c8 column having a 5µm packing as a stationary phase using a combination of ethanol: methanol (50:50 % v/v) as a mobi...

BACKGROUND Positive lymph node (LN) status is considered a systemic disease state. In prostate cancer, LN-positive diagnosis during pelvic LN dissection (PLND) potentially leads to the abandonment of radical prostatectomy (RP). OBJECTIVE To compare the overall survival (OS) and relative survival (RS; as an estimate for cancer-specific survival) in LN-positive patients with or without RP. DE...