background and objectives: availability and uptake of mineral by explants are recognized as being important in tissue culture. the limiting factor for maximum mineral uptake and optimum growth is that minerals are not enough available to the explants. there are the inter-relationships between plant growth, mineral uptake, medium water potential, and mineral movement through the medium. plantlet...

1. The need for statistical data analysis 2. Principles of statistical analysis 2.1. Probability – The Foundation of Statistics 2.2. Basic Axioms of Probability Theory Based on Set Theory. 2.3. Types of Probability Distributions 2.4. Outcome and Expectation 2.5. Estimation and Statistical Inference 2.6. Estimators and their Distributions 3. Strategies for statistical data analysis 3.1. Hypothes...

We evaluate the relic density of the lightest neutralino, the lightest supersymmetric particle, in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). For the first time, we include all coannihilation processes between neutralinos and charginos for any neutralino mass and composition. We use the most sophisticated routines for integrating the cross sections and the Boltzmann equa...

This paper describes how videos can be implemented into printed photo books. More than half of the consumers take videos with DSCs, the other half with camcorders, smartphones and other devices. Therefore consumers making photo books are a great target group to offer a service implementing videos. Using the CEWE PHOTOBOOK software a consumer can select scenes (frames) of the video and have it p...

Shannon’s rate distortion theory demonstrates that the optimal distortion rate can be achieved by quantizing blocks of arbitrary large dimensions. In practice, however, most image compression coders rely on the principle of transform coding combined with scalar quantization and lossless coding. Transform coding consists in applying a linear transformation to an N-dimensional block of data. The ...

We give a model-independent analysis of CP violating lepton polarization in the exclusive semileptonic B decay of B → D(∗)lν̄ including dimension six four-fermion tensor interactions at the heavy quark limit. It is shown that the tensor interactions should not be neglected if the associated couplings are comparable to others. The effect of tensor interactions on the transverse lepton polarizatio...

Renal and urogenital disease is a prevalent finding of extrapulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Patients can present with unusual complaints not immediately suspicious for tuberculosis. We describe a 38-year-old man who presented with vomiting and an acute kidney injury. Imaging studies showed nodules throughout the lungs, retroperitoneum, abdominal viscera, and kidneys. Asymmetrical hydronep...

Of all the upsets which can happen to the infant or child, it would be safe to say that none is as alarming to the parents as a convulsion. A good knowledge of the causes of convulsions is therefore essential, if one is to handle the situation well, and relieve the parental anxiety with authority. The diagnosis may sometimes be difficult, for even 'windy pains ' with screaming may simulate a co...