Knotweeds (Reynoutria spp.) are plants producing useful secondary metabolites, including stilbenes (resveratrol and piceid have been studied more thoroughly) emodin. Many studies shown the positive effects of resveratrol on health status humans animals. Resveratrol has added into pigs’ diet as a pure extract, but it never supplemented fodder with knotweed biomass which contains other thus we wo...

The mandarin is an important fruit crop worldwide, and ‘Xinyu mandarin’—a local Citrus reticulata variety—is widely cultivated in Jiangxi Province, China. Autopolyploidy has frequently been used for the improvement of varieties. In a previous study, we identified tetraploid (4X) material mandarin’ generated from its diploid (2X) mother seedling via spontaneous mutation. However, physiological m...

Animals with anterior or posterior neocortical lesions as well as intact control animals were evaluated for changes in a-adrenergic sensitivity at five postoperative times. Colonic temperature decreases were measured in response to clonidine at each of the postoperative periods. The result indicated that a heightened heat-loss response was induced by clonidine that lasted 21 or more days after ...

There has recently been a great deal of interest in cognitive interventions, particularly when applied in older adults with the goal of slowing or reversing age-related cognitive decline. Although seldom directly investigated, one of the fundamental questions concerning interventions is whether the intervention alters the rate of cognitive change, or affects the level of certain cognitive measu...

This study examines 5 types of personality continuity--structural, mean-level, individual-level, differential, and ipsative--in a representative population (N=498) and a twin and sibling sample (N=548) of children and adolescents. Parents described their children on 2 successive occasions with a 36-month interval using the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (I. Mervielde & F. De Fr...

Personality-relationship transactions were investigated in a general population sample of young German adults with three assessments over 8 years. Four general findings were obtained. First, personality development was characterized by substantive individual differences in change. Second, bivariate latent growth models indicated that individual differences in personality change were substantial...