Short-fringed or tyrol knapweed, Centaurea dubia (Asteraceae) is an invasive plant of fields and roadsides in the eastern United States. Insects from the plant’s native Eurasian range have been introduced into North America in an attempt to control the spread of related Centaurea species. One of these biological control agents, Urophora quadrifasciata (Diptera: Tephritidae), a picture-winged se...

Five species of eriophyoid mites were identified during surveys of mite fauna associated with plant species of the family Compositae from Southwest of East Azerbaijan province during 2010 and 2011. Two of them, Aceria virgatae n. sp. from Centaurea virgata Lam. and Aceria xeranthenzis n. sp. from Xeranthemumn squarrosum Boiss., were found to be new to science. No damage symptoms were observed o...

To compare diagnostic performance and confidence of a standard visual reading and combined 3-dimensional stereotactic surface projection (3D-SSP) results to discriminate between Alzheimer disease (AD)/mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).[F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET brain images were obtained from 120 patients (64 AD/MCI, 38 DLB,...

AIMS To detect Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida using the PCR technique and plating method. METHODS AND RESULTS Two strains of P. damselae ssp. piscicida were isolated from cultured cobia (Rachycentron canadum) at two different fish farms in Taiwan. A pair of primers was designed to detect the capsular polysaccharide gene of P. damselae ssp. piscicida by PCR. Reference strains of differ...

the essential oils from compositae specie of iran: centaurea behen l. obtained by hydrodistillation was analyzed by gc and gc/ms.  β-caryooyllane (24.5%), β-selinene (13.9%) and valencene (11.7%) were the main components among the sixteen constituents characterized in the oil of centaurea behen representing  93.7% of the total components detected.

Proof search for the structural synthesis of programs (SSP) — a deductive program synthesis method which is suited for compositional programming in large and is in practical use in a number of programming environments is explained. SSP is based on a decidable logical calculus where complexity of the proof search is still PSPACE. This requires paying special attention to the efficiency of search...

AIMS To determine whether the polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) can assign HLA-DR type more accurately than serology in a routine hospital laboratory. METHODS The 93 patients currently awaiting kidney transplants have been DR typed by serology over the past 14 years, 82% within the past five years. They have now been retyped using the PCR-SSP method described ...

AIMS To translate, culturally adapt, and examine psychometric properties of the Malay version Short Sensory Profile (SSP-M). METHODS Pretesting (n = 30) of the original English SSP established its applicability for use with Malaysian children aged 3-10 years. This was followed by the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the SSP-M. Two forward and two back translations were compared an...