Abstract Applications of plant growth regulators such as paclobutrazol (PAC) to grain maize frequently caused depressions in yield. This negative impact probably originated from treatments at an early stage during ontogenesis when the determination potential kernel number coincided with time regulator application. However, stability yield itself is high relevance, and it also key determinant fo...

nostalgia is a summary of bitter and sweet inner sense to individuals, past, occasions, hometown or country, utopia and hidden inner wishes. in psychological view, this sense is a result of mental remen berance or idealism, and for several reason such as to be far away from hometown, immigration, failure in personal life, mourning of the friends' loss, loss of golden situation, listening t...

Regression results suggest that household income and parental education are the main factors influencing expenditures on children's education, entertainment, and books; that children in single-parent or cohabiting households are disadvantaged is thus due mainly to the lower income and education levels of these households, not their marital status A n increasing number of children living in nont...

I considered snapping a picture on my camera phone of the Dunkin’ Donuts sign at the Tegucigalpa airport, marveling at how American culture had managed to spread its tentacles all the way to Honduras. As we loaded our luggage into six enormous pickup trucks, 10 percent personal belongings and 90 percent supplies for our brigades, I waited for the moment when it became clear that I had entered t...

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My first view of Bangladesh was in 1977 when I joined the staff of the R.I.H.D. Hospital, classified as a Technical Assistant for the Overseas Development Ministry it reverted to an Administration in the Foreign Commonwealth Ministry with the return of the Conservative Government in 1979. These appointments are financed by the O.D.A. and an orthopaedic surgeon can usually manage only a 4 to 5 w...

Correspondence Growth and childhood asthma Sir, We read the recent article by Dr Balfour-Lynn with interest.1 In this study the prepubertal height centile from a 'distance' chart of each individual child was extrapolated to the adult centile as an assessment of final height prognosis. It is the degree of epiphysial maturation, however, that determines the proportion of growth that has occurred ...

butter, soda pop, milk, cheese, pizza, bacon, Danish pastries and luxurious Hungarian dobostorta cake. Hello dry toast and soy pudding. The cynical might suggest that European governments are falling over one another to introduce fat taxes to help offset their staggering debt loads, but governments say they’re rushing to introduce new levies on products high in saturated and trans fats, sugar a...