Abstract Purpose Partial rootzone drying (PRD) typically alternates the dry and irrigated parts of rootzone, but how plant physiology soil evaporation respond to this alternation are poorly understood. Methods Dwarf tomatoes were grown in small split pots comprising two 250 cm 3 compartments fully (WW: 100% ET c ) or subjected three deficit irrigation treatments (75% ): homogeneous (HRD; evenly...

Aims To test the value of Periodic Repolarization Dynamics (PRD), a recently validated electrocardiographic marker of sympathetic activity, as a novel approach to predict sudden cardiac death (SCD) and non-sudden cardiac death (N-SCD) and to improve identification of patients that profit from ICD-implantation. Methods and results We included 856 post-infarction patients with left-ventricular ...

BACKGROUND Global health (GH) electives are on the rise, but with little consensus on the need or content of pre-departure training (PDT) or post-return debriefing (PRD) for electives in postgraduate medical education. METHODS Using a 2-iteration Delphi process to encourage discussion and consensus, participants from 14 medical schools across Canada provided input to promote more uniform poli...

BACKGROUND Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the leading genetic cause of end-stage renal failure (ESRF). The epidemiology of the incident ADPKD patient cohort requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) in England and Wales has not been described. METHODS We used a retrospective cohort design. Incident adult patients commencing RRT between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2...

The Drosophila paired (prd) gene, the founding member of the PAX gene family, is required for normal embryonic segmentation and is re-expressed later in development in the head and developing CNS. As for most embryonically active genes, global defects resulting from loss of early prd function obscure an analysis of the role of later expression phases. We used inducible targeted ribozymes to fun...

Grapevine irrigation is becoming an important practice to guarantee wine quality or even plant survival in regions affected by seasonal drought. Nevertheless, irrigation has to be controlled to optimise source to sink balance and avoid excessive vigour. The results we present here in two grapevine varieties (Moscatel and Castelão) during 3 years, indicate that we can decrease the amount of wate...

One psychosocial factor that has been identified to motivate gambling is personal relative deprivation (PRD), which refers to resentment stemming from the belief that one is deprived of a desired and deserved outcome compared to some referent. Although several lines of evidence point to a positive association between PRD and the urge to gamble, the factors that might moderate this relation have...

The homeo box, which encodes the DNA-binding homeo domain, is a DNA sequence motif present in several Drosophila developmental genes; it has been used to identify many homologous genes involved in mammalian development. The paired box is another conserved sequence motif, first identified in the paired (prd) and gooseberry (gsb) Drosophila homeo domain genes. It encodes a 128-amino-acid domain, ...