The effects of salinity on germination, vegetative growth, regrowth after clipping, osmotic adjustment and ion accumulation were evaluated in 6 cultivars of Chloris gayana at the early stages of growth. Two tetraploid cultivars, Boma and Callide, and 4 diploid ones, Bell, Katambora, Pioneer and a local accession of Pioneer, were included in the study. The rate of water uptake in seeds was not a...

2-Mercaptoethanol increases the optical density of assay solutions at wavelengths between 280 to 400 nm, and therefore interferes with the measurement of protein concentration by the microbiuret method. Protein concentration can be determined in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol up to 6 mM by modification of the method as follows: after the precipitation of protein by trichloroacetic acid in th...

This paper presents a noninvasive wireless sensor platform for continuous health monitoring. The sensor system integrates a loop antenna, wireless sensor interface chip, and glucose sensor on a polymer substrate. The IC consists of power management, readout circuitry, wireless communication interface, LED driver, and energy storage capacitors in a 0.36-mm CMOS chip with no external components. ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the physiological responses on three interval training sets performed at intensities relative to the critical velocity which was calculated from two different combinations of distances using a 2-parameter linear model. METHODS In a controlled repeated measures design, ten male well trained swimmers (age: 15.2 ± 1.2 years) swam 5 × 400-m, 10 ...

BACKGROUND The prospective, randomized study comparing 4- with 8-mm tip electrodes for radiofrequency linear ablation of typical atrial flutter is not available. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 104 consecutive patients with typical atrial flutter were randomly assigned to undergo radiofrequency linear ablation using a 4- (Group I, n=54) or 8-mm tip electrode (Group II, n=50) catheter (temperat...

Abstract Reduced pressure laser welds were made using a 6-kW commercial fiber-laser system on Ti-6Al-4 V and compared to electron beam of the same diameters as measured by diagnostics. The showed keyhole characteristics under easily achievable mechanical pumped vacuum levels 1 mbar that nearly matched weld penetrations at 9 × 10 –5 vacuum. alloys used represent refractory metals such vanadium, ...

Seizure activity associated with cortical dysplasia (CD) is often resistant to standard pharmacologic treatments. Although several animal models exhibit CD, virtually nothing is known about antiepileptic drug (AED) responses in these animals. Here we have used rats exposed to methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) in utero, an animal model featuring nodular heterotopia, to investigate the effects of...

Agricultural land plays an important role in ensuring food security and employment rural areas. For many years, the planned economy has forced Uzbekistan to grow water-intensive crops, which led declining productivity increased crop yields. In a market economy, new innovative technologies are high demand not only agriculture but also other sectors. order solve above-mentioned problems, our rese...

Crab cavities are proposed for the LHC upgrade to improve the luminosity. There are two possible crab cavity installations for the LHC upgrade: the global scheme at Interaction Region (IR) 4 where the beambeam separation is about 420-mm, and the local scheme at the IR5 where the beam-beam separation is only 194mm. One of the design requirements as the result of a recent LHC-Crab cavity workshop...