This study was conducted to evaluate antioxidant enzyme activities in four caprifig varieties under drought stress and subsequent rewatering in order to screen drought tolerance. Leaf relative water content and membrane stability index significantly reduced under drought stress. ‘Shah Anjir’ and ‘Khormaei’ were able to preserve the highest relative water content and membrane stability index lev...

For review on vitamin D: Michael F Holick, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics and Molecular Medicine. Director, Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory. Programme Director General Clinical Research Unit. Director, Biologic Effects of Light Research Centre, Director, Bone Healthcare, Boston. External Review Board: A Muruganathan, Anil K Jain, Dinesh K Dhanwal, G R Sridhar, H...

1 Department of Biochemistry, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 2 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 3 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. 4 Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan. 5 Pakistan Science Foundation, Isla...

Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Manubhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, ORI, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Manubhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, ORI, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pedodontics and Preventive D...

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pedodontics and Preven...

Shah et al have recently reported the first successful sequencing of the entire genome of a solid tumour (Shah et al, 2009). Philippe Bedard and Christos Sotiriou analyse their findings as well as the challenges of applying the study of cancer genomes to clinical cancer care.

In this work, we first address the problem of simultaneous image segmentation and smoothing by approaching the Mumford-Shah paradigm from a curve evolution perspective. In particular, we let a set of deformable contours define the boundaries between regions in an image where we model the data via piecewise smooth functions and employ a gradient flow to evolve these contours. Each gradient step ...

We propose a novel convex prior for multilabel optimization which allows to impose arbitrary distances between labels. Only symmetry, d(i, j) ≥ 0 and d(i, i) = 0 are required. In contrast to previous grid based approaches for the nonmetric case, the proposed prior is formulated in the continuous setting avoiding grid artifacts. In particular, the model is easy to implement, provides a convex re...

We give a sufficient condition for a first order infinitesimal deformation of a curve on a 3-fold to be obstructed. As application we construct generically non-reduced components of the Hilbert schemes of uniruled 3-folds and the Hom scheme from a general curve of genus five to a general cubic 3-fold.

We consider a family of slightly extended version of the Raynaud’s surfaces X over the field of positive characteristic with Mumford-Szpiro type polarizations Z, which have Kodaira non-vanishing H(X,Z) 6= 0. The surfaces are at least normal but smooth under a special condition. We compute the cohomologies H(X,Z) for i, n ∈ Z and study their (non-)vanishing. Finally, we give a fairly large famil...