In hermaphroditic plants, female reproductive success often varies among different positions within an inflorescence. However, few studies have evaluated the relative importance of underlying causes such as pollen limitation, resource limitation or architectural effect, and few have compared male allocation. During a 2-year investigation, we found that female reproductive success of an acropeta...

The purpose of this study was to translate the self-efficacy for appropriate medication use scale into Thai, and then examine the validity and reliability of this version of the questionnaire. Responses to the 13-item Thai version of the selfefficacy for appropriate medication use scale (SEAMS) were collected from 100 Thai with post-MI. None of the 13 items violated any assumption for factor an...

Mortality-related processes are known to modulate late-life change in cognitive abilities, but it is an open question whether and how precipitous declines with impending death generalize to other domains of functioning. We investigated this notion by using 13-year longitudinal data from now-deceased participants in the Berlin Aging Study (N = 439; 70-103 years at first occasion; M = 87 years). ...

Forty colorectal cancer patients, 14 gastric cancer patients, and 10 normal controls were tested with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. The gastric cancer patients had a significantly higher amount of life change (p less than 0.05) in the 2-year period preceding the onset of the first symptoms of their illness. Moreover, there was a significant (p less than 0.01) negative correlation betwee...

As a result of the age-related decline in reproductive function, during perimenopausal and postmenopausal periods female patients experience an estrogen deficiency state. Due to this state, symptoms deficiency, which are combined into concept “climacteric syndrome”, begin manifest. Climacteric syndrome is complex vegetative-vascular, mental, metabolic-endocrine disorders that develop women not ...

,Most studies concerning the effects of the gas composition of the atmosphere surrounding fruit have been directed toward the response of the combined changes of oxygen an(d carbon dioxide. This was a result of the economic need for methods of prolonging the storage life by the use of modified atmospheres at temperatures above those which cause chilling injury. Several studies have been concern...

The ripening behavior of the native American pawpaw (Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal.) fruit was studied immediately after harvest and after 1 month of 4 8C storage. Fruit were harvested at two different maturity stages. Fruit that were unripe (minimal softening evident) at harvest exhibited respiratory and ethylene climacterics at 3 and 5 days postharvest, respectively, at ambient temperature, and ...

Red clover (RC) shows potential activity against menopausal symptoms and pomegranates have antioxidative and beneficial effects on postmenopausal symptoms; thus, we investigated whether the anti-climacteric activity of RC could be enhanced by the addition of dried pomegranate concentrate powder (PCP) extracts in ovariectomized (OVX) rats. Regarding the anti-osteoporotic effects, bone mineral de...