The present study investigated six varieties of locally grown wheat (Lasani, Sehar, Miraj-08, Chakwal-50, Faisalabad-08 and Inqlab) procured from Punjab Seed Corporation, Lahore, Pakistan for their proximate contents. On the basis of protein content and ready availability, Faisalabad-08 (FD-08) was selected to be used for the assessment of comparative efficiency of various methods used for glut...

We conducted a study to investigate the motivational dynamics of protest participation. Previous research suggests that instrumental and identity motives together with group-based anger predict people’s intentions to participate in protest. The present research combines these motives with ideology into a single model. So far, no study has tested such a model or attempted to assess the motives’ ...

Sami C. Al-Izzi, George Rowlands, Pierre Sens, and Matthew S. Turner Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, Physical Chemistry Curie, F-75005 Paris, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 168, F-75005 Paris,...

Large RNAs can collapse into compact conformations well before the stable formation of the tertiary contacts that define their final folds. This study identifies likely physical mechanisms driving these early compaction events in RNA folding. We have employed time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering to monitor the fastest global shape changes of the Tetrahymena ribozyme under different ionic ...

BIOFEEDBACK Blachinsky et al. (1) described a procedure they term controlled and ordered oligonucleotides ligations (COOL), which we agree will be an extremely useful procedure for scientists attempting to create tandemly reiterated sequences in plasmids. We are writing to point out that we described a technique very similar to this one in a series of articles starting with a paper published in...

Aim: when programming a medical test such as capsule endoscopy (CE), finding the closest point between the patient’s experience and his/her expectation is essential to improve any further explorations. For this purpose we designed a form which tries to collect the information required. Material and methods: from December 2003 to January 2005 we examined the small intestine of 98 patients with t...

Multiplex families with type 1 diabetes are important for identification of rare variants that cannot be identified in case-control association studies. The very low incidence of type 1 diabetes in the Japanese population, however, makes identification of such families difficult. We identified a Japanese family in which three members developed type 1 diabetes, and studied the genotype of the hu...

Listeria monocytogenes strain HPB5415-isolated from deli meat-was found in 2008 to have the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns as a clinical strain (08-5923). However, whether nucleotide differences (single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) exist between their genomes was not determined. We sequenced the L. monocytogenes strain HPB5415 genome and identified 52 SNPs relative to strain...