Osmotic and oxidative stress responses to iso-osmotic (-0.4 Mpa) NaCl, PEG-6000 and mannitol stress were studied in 15-day old plants of three potato cultivars viz. ‘Kufri Kufri Bahar’ ‘Jyoti’ and ‘Chandramukhi’. After 2-weeks of treatment, plants were analyzed for biochemical and physiological determinants of stress. Relative water content (RWC) and membrane damage rate (MDR) were significantl...

Rossby Wave Chromatography (RWC) is implemented in a linearized barotropic model as a tool to diagnose and understand the interaction between the mid-latitude jet and the eddies. Given the background zonal-mean flow and the space-time structure of the baroclinic wave activity source, RWC calculates the space-time structure of the upper tropospheric eddy momentum fluxes. Using the convergence of...

the purpose of the present research was to determine the effects of intermittent and continuous training programs on some selected cardiovascular risk factors in young obese females. for this purpose, 36 obese sedentary subjects with bmi>30 were randomly assigned to three groups of intermittent exercise (mean ± sd of height, weight, and age: 163.2±5.8cm, 86.8±11.8kg, 20.7±1.3yr), continuous exe...

The turgor loss point (TLP), which is considered a threshold for many physiological processes, may be useful in plant-breeding programs or for the selection of reforestation species. Obtaining TLP through the standard pressure-volume (p-v) curve method in a large set of species is highly time-consuming and somewhat subjective. To solve this problem, we present an objective and a less time-consu...

Lesions in acute herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) have been reported to show decreased uptake of Tc-99m ethyl cysteinate dimer (ECD). A patient with acute HSE displaying a lesion in the left temporal lobe was evaluated by means of Tc-99m ECD single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Dynamic SPECT images indicated regionally increased uptake of tracer in the ipsilateral temporal lobe ...

Although the mechanisms remain unknown, maternal core temperature (Tc) decreases near term of pregnancy and is increased throughout lactation in rats. The purpose of our present experiments was to determine whether pregnancy and lactation shift the thermoneutral zone of rats and to investigate whether the changes in maternal Tc during pregnancy and lactation result from "forced" or "regulated" ...

As an indispensable raw material in blast furnace ironmaking, coke plays important role, which is also the key to low-carbon smelting and reducing ironmaking carbon emissions, so it necessary study its quality, degradation behavior, microstructure evolution. In this work, pore structure micromorphology of incoming (IC) tuyere (TC) were analyzed comprehensively by comparative research methods. T...

natural convection heat transfer has many applications in different fields of industry; such as cooling industries, electronic transformer devices and ventilation equipment; due to simple process, economic advantage, low noise and renewed retrieval. recently, heat transfer of nanofluids have been considered because of higher thermal conductivity coefficient compared with those of ordinary fluid...