BACKGROUND Renal transplantation is recognised as being the optimal treatment modality for many patients with established renal failure. This analysis aimed to explore inter-centre variation in access to renal transplantation in the UK. METHODS Transplant activity and waiting list data were obtained from NHS Blood and Transplant, demographic and laboratory data were obtained from the UK Renal...

Research on the populations of rice grain bug Paraeuscosmetus pallicomis Dallas (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in paddy field ecosystems was performed with the aim to determine the populations of rice grain bug in weed-free paddy field, weedy paddy field, and paddy dykes. Experiment was carried out in the village of Paccellekang in the district of Patallasang of Gowa Regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesi...

Greenhouse and field experiments were conducted to determine the influence of transplant age on growth and yield of ‘Dixie’ and ‘Senator’ summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.). Dry weight and leaf area measurements indicated that 28to 35-day-old greenhouse-grown transplants grew more slowly after transplanting than plants that were 10,14, or 21 days old. Older transplants flowered earlier; however,...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Seagrasses are important marine plants that are under threat globally. Restoration by transplanting vegetative fragments or seedlings into areas where seagrasses have been lost is possible, but long-term trial data are limited. The goal of this study is to use available short-term data to predict long-term outcomes of transplanting seagrass. METHODS A functional-structural...

Rice receives a large amount of water during land preparation and the growing period, causing poor crop water productivity and lower net benefits. In wheat, excessive tillage operations delay its sowing, resulting in low yields and net returns. Dry seeding of rice and zero tillage in wheat can be expected to reduce water inputs and tillage costs compared with the conventional system of rice-whe...

In this paper, we present an approach to quickly develop supertags for a target language given supertags for another language (reference language), along with a sentence-aligned parallel corpus between reference language and target language pairs. Our method can be interpreted as composing the alignment relation with dependency relation of the reference sentence to obtain the dependency relatio...