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the development of seminal and lateral root system plays a major role in plant access to water and nutrients under abiotic stress, especially salinity. in order to understand the relation between root growth responsesand shoot physiological indices oftwo bread wheat cultivars contrasting in salt tolerance (kavir and shiraz), a greenhouse experiment was conducted with two salinity levels (0 and ...

Many relational database systems use secondary indexes to reduce the access cost of retrieving data in response to a user’s query. However, a secondary index incurs an additional cost due to the update maintenance of the index. In some cases, this cost may be greater than the cost to update the desired tuples. This paper examines a deferred index update strategy which does an incremental update...

BACKGROUND The Multimorbidity (MM) Index predicts the prognosis of patients from their diagnostic history. In contrast to existing approaches with broad diagnostic categories, it treats each diagnosis as a separate independent variable using individual International Classification of Disease, Revision 9 (ICD-9) codes. OBJECTIVE This paper describes the MM Index, reviews the published data on ...

Quite well established are the concepts of homeostasis and balance as well as biological and behavioral adaptation to maintain homeostasis. They may be traced to antiquity, both in the Western and Eastern traditions. Homeostatic concepts emphasize the interaction between brain, body, and environment. Concepts of homeostasis and adaptation have been a driving force for substantive research and t...

Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination has now replaced the National Board of Medical Examiners part 1 examination as the initial step in medical licensure. The new examination format places an increased emphasis on clinical vignettes to test basic physiological concepts. Suggestions from a question-writing workshop were incorporated into cardiovascular items in a midcourse p...

objective: based on pittsburg sleep quality index, it has been reported that most human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) positive patients suffer from various degrees of sleep problems. sleep disorders can affect quality of life, physical and social functioning and can also cause chronic fatigue. some psychological and physiological factors are related to sleep quality. the purpose of the present s...

this study examined the relationship between market monitoring cost consist the business disclosure index, the index of perception of corruption, rule of law and regulations quality, and also pointed out the technology index and exercise price limit rules that are in stock. in this research the relationship between the above indicators to price limit rules applied during the period 2005-2010 in...