OBJECTIVES This study investigated long-term neurobehavioral outcome from childhood bacterial meningitis, with particular focus on the influence of acute neurologic complications and age at illness. METHODS This prospective, longitudinal study compared survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis (n = 109) with grade- and gender-matched controls (n = 96) selected from the target children's sch...

Abstract This paper aims to identify how and what extent the Italian labour market structure, in terms of job composition institutional changes, shaped dynamics wages wage inequality decade between 2007 2017. We investigate main determinants behind rise Italy by using Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions. econometric approach allows—on one hand—to directly assess effects on unconditi...

Reduced seedling growth is a consequence of seed deterioration. The heterotrophic seedling growth can be considered as the product of three components: (1) initial seed weight, (2) the fraction of seed reserves which are mobilized, and (3) the conversion efficiency of mobilized seed reserves to seedling tissues. It is not clear which of these component (s) is affected by seed deterioration. To ...

seeds deterioration is a natural phenomenon that occurs in all seeds and leading to gradual decline of seed viability during storage. however, the rate at which seeds age depends upon their physiological status, genetic constitution and storage conditions. in the present study we the examined relationship between accumulation of reducing and non-reducing of sugars, soluble protein, the activity...

Abstract The fundamental deteriorative processes that lead to loss of seed viability contrastingly vary between desiccation insensitive (orthodox) and sensitive seeds (recalcitrant). Orthodox which undergo maturation drying are bestowed with protective mechanisms guard the against deterioration. They include accumulation antioxidants, non-reducing sugars, proteins such as late embryogenesis abu...