Anthonomus grandis Boheman is a key pest in cotton crops in the New World. Its larval stage develops within the flower bud using it as food and as protection against its predators. This behavior limits the effectiveness of its control using conventional insecticide applications and biocontrol techniques. In spite of its importance, little is known about its genome sequence and, more important, ...

Variation in angiosperm vessel diameter is of major functional significance. In the light of recent models predicting optimal vessel taper given resistance imposed by conductive path length, we tested the prediction that plant size should predict vessel diameter, with dryland plants having narrower vessels for their stem sizes. We assembled a comparative dataset including vessel and stem diamet...

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a p f a 3 t s he annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology ESC) was held in Barcelona, Spain, August 29 to Septemer 2, 2009. The total attendance was 31,323 participants rom 136 different countries. Excellent congress facilities osted 237 pre-arranged sessions in 30 meeting rooms unning in parallel, including several joint sessions in ollaboration with other societies (e.g., the Ame...

Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) has been applied to measure the absolute production rate of NO molecules in the gas phase of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) operating at rf (13.56 MHz) in argon with small (up to 1%) admixtures of air. The resulting NO production rates were found to be in the range (0.1–80)× 10−3 sccm or (0.05–35)× 1018 molecules s−1 depending on th...

Over the past three years or so the evidence has become overwhelming that the cuprate high Tc superconductors have a d-wave pairing state[1]. The measurements of Wollman et al.[2] and of Tsuei et al.[3] are especially convincing since they do not depend on the microscopic physics of the energy gap, but instead depend only on the order parameter phase. Other experiments, such as photoemission[4,...

We have measured the deca-triplet s-wave scattering length of the bosonic chromium isotopes 52Cr and 50Cr. From the time constants for cross-dimensional thermalization in ultracold atomic samples, we have determined the magnitudes |a(52Cr)|=(170+/-39)a(0) and |a(50Cr)|=(40+/-15)a(0), where a(0)=0.053 nm. By measuring the rethermalization rate of 52Cr over a wide temperature range and comparing ...

Transformation of the conventional radial Schrödinger equation defined on the interval r ∈ [0, ∞) into an equivalent form defined on the finite domain y(r) ∈ [a, b]  allows the s-wave scattering length a(s) to be exactly expressed in terms of a logarithmic derivative of the transformed wave function φ(y) at the outer boundary point y = b, which corresponds to r = ∞. In particular, for an arbitr...

eight accessions of thyme medicinal plant, belonging to iranian endemic thymus daënensis, t. eriocalyx, t. migricus and an unknown thymus spp species, were tested for karyotypic analysis, using squash technique and 2% (w/v) aceto-orcein staining method. chromosomal parameters examined were: short arm (s), long arm (l), total length of chromosome (tl), arm ratio (ar), r-value, total chromosome v...