The effect of pre-application structural auxin analogues TA-12 (1-[2-chloroethoxycarbonyl-methyl]-4-naphthalenesulfonic acid calcium salt) and TA-14 (1-[2-dimethylaminoethoxicarbonylmethyl] naphthalenechlormethylate) on biochemical parameters pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Jablo) plants subjected to low temperature (LT, −1 °C, for 24h) was studied. For the first time effects these analogues, applied...

Previous studies have shown that spermidine (Spd) can improve tolerance to high temperature stress in tomato seedlings. To further understand how Spd regulates the molecular components of signaling pathways, we performed a genome-wide transcriptome analysis seedlings treated with and/or exogenous Spd. The results demonstrate that, under conditions, significantly alleviated inhibition plant grow...

Most design activities involve exploring and comparing existing designs. Thus, adopting an eco-conscious approach in the design exploration process can aid environmentally sustainable product design (SPD). One approach for supporting exploration in SPD is through tools based on information visualization (InfoVis). The use of InfoVis for SPD allows data-driven exploration of solutions that is ra...

BACKGROUND Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), we previously reported abnormalities in two critical white matter tracts in schizophrenia, the uncinate fasciculus (UF) and the cingulum bundle (CB), both related to fronto-temporal connectivity. Here, we investigate these two bundles in unmedicated subjects with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). METHODS Fifteen male SPD subjects and 15 m...

Individuals with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) share genetic, phenomenologic, and cognitive abnormalities with people diagnosed with schizophrenia. To date, 15 structural MRI studies of the brain have examined size, and 3 diffusion tensor imaging studies have examined white matter connectivity in SPD. Overall, both types of structural neuroimaging modalities have shown temporal lobe ab...

The clinical severity of common hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) is highly variable, ranging from an asymptomatic carrier state to a severe hemolytic anemia. To elucidate the molecular basis of this variable clinical expression, we evaluated 56 subjects from 24 HE kindred, who carry alpha spectrin mutants characterized by a spectrin dimer (SpD) self-association defect related to a structural abno...

Two human diseases of platelet storage pool deficiency (SPD), Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome and Chediak-Higashi syndrome, are recessively inherited disorders characterized by hypopigmentation, prolonged bleeding, and normal platelet counts accompanied by a reduction in dense granule number. We have recently described seven independent recessive mutations in the mouse regulated by separate genes whi...

During the development of multicellular organisms, cellular diversity is often achieved through asymmetric cell divisions that produce two daughter cells having different developmental potentials. Prior to an asymmetric cell division, cellular components segregate to opposite ends of the cell defining an axis of polarity. The mitotic spindle rotationally aligns along this axis of polarity, ther...

BACKGROUND We aimed to apply collaborative business intelligence (BI) system to hospital supply, processing and distribution (SPD) logistics management model. METHODS We searched Engineering Village database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Google for articles (Published from 2011 to 2016), books, Web pages, etc., to understand SPD and BI related theories and recent researc...