Stripe rust (yellow rust) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, one of the most dangerous diseases wheat. Marker assisted selection methods make it possible to accelerate resistance gene donors improve breeding material through their introduction into hybridization programs. The goal this study was determine presence/absence yellow genes in wheat recombinant inbred lines Almaly/Avocet ...

UNLABELLED Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays a pivotal role in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Angiotensin converting enzyme-related carboxypeptidase 2 (ACE2)/angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7)/Mas receptor axis counteracts the deleterious actions of Ang II. ACE2 exerts its actions by cleaving Ang II into Ang-(1-7) which activates Mas receptor. This study aimed to determine if the expression of Mas recep...

OBJECTIVE To investigate image quality and radiation dose of CT colonography (CTC) with adaptive iterative dose reduction three-dimensional (AIDR3D). METHODS Ten segments of porcine colon phantom were collected, and 30 pedunculate polyps with diameters ranging from 1 to 15 mm were simulated on each segment. Image data were acquired with tube voltage of 120 kVp, and current doses of 10 mAs, 20...

BACKGROUND The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) is the most popular clinical measure of spasticity. Other clinical signs of spasticity include hyperactive tendon reflexes, myoclonus and Babinski sign. PURPOSE To assess reliability of the MAS with myoclonic and tendon reflex examination (MTR) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). MATERIAL AND METHODS 30 patients (16 with complete and 14 wi...

Whether an agent can be a collection of several interacting agents, a hierarchy, or some other type of organization? We believe that several difficult challenges for automated systems can be tackled by giving full meaning to the MAS concept: adopting a recursive definition of agents. In this work, we propose a definition of MAS beliefs in terms of its constituent agents' beliefs.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of our study was to detect early clinical and laboratory signs that help to discriminate macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) from active systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) without MAS. METHODS Our retrospective study was based on reviewing the medical charts of the children admitted to the rheumatology department with active SJIA and definite MAS (n = 18) an...

The original version of this Article contained errors in the spelling of the authors Elena Sánchez-Cuartielles and Rafael Valdés-Mas which were incorrectly given as Sánchez-Cuartielles Elena and Valdés-Mas Rafael respectively. These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Th...

A Multi-Agent System (MAS) can be viewed as a software system evolving in some environment, with which it has to interact. During the MAS life cycle, many situations may occur, situations that are considered to be critical and that would have an effect on the MAS, prompting it to quickly adjust to this new situation. A design methodology of a MAS should help the designer to represent informatio...

Brown planthopper (BPH) is the most damaging rice pest globally. Resistant varieties are the most effective and environmental strategy for protecting the rice crop from BPH. Functional markers (FMs) designed from polymorphic sites within gene sequences affecting phenotypic variation are highly efficient when used for marker assisted selection (MAS). Bph14 is the first and only cloned insect res...

Tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum, is the main native fish species produced in Brazil, and is an important species for genetic improvement in aquaculture. In addition, breeding studies on this species can be optimized with the use of molecular markers associated with productive phenotypes. The objective of the present study was to test the performance of growth traits and resistance to the bacteri...