Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) is mostly grown in Mediterranean type environments, characterized by unpredictable rainfall amounts and distribution, heat stress, prevalence of major diseases pests, all to be exacerbated with climate change. Pre-breeding efforts transgressing adaptive genes from wild relatives need strengthened overcome these abiotic biotic challenges. In this stud...

A group is usually input into a computer by specifying the group either using a presentation or using a generating set of permutations or matrices. Here we will emphasize the latter approach, referring to [Si3, Si4, Ser1] for details of the other situations. Thus, the basic computational setting discussed here is as follows: a group is given, specified as G = 〈X〉 in terms of some generating set...

Maharloo Lake is one of the salty lakes located in the southeast of Fars province, Iran. Presence of salt domes has a significant role in its salinity. Magnesium-sodium chloride and sodium sulfate are dominant salts of the lake. Due to the drying up of lake, widespread lands surrounding the area are exposed to secondary salinity. It seems necessary to investigate the changes to find salinity le...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of pericardium 6 (P6) acupressure and nurse-provided counseling on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients with breast cancer. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING A university cancer center in Seoul, South Korea. SAMPLE 120 women who were beginning their second cycle of adjuvant chemotherapy after definitive surgery f...

The crop intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and radiation use efficiency (RUE) vary markedly in different intercropping systems. The HHLA (horizontally homogeneous leaf area) and ERCRT (extended row crop radiation transmission) models have been established to calculate the intercepted PAR for intercrops. However, there is still a lack of study on the intercepted PAR and RUE u...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare differences in the chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) among three groups of women (acupressure, placebo acupressure, and usual care) undergoing chemo-therapy for breast cancer. DESIGN A multicenter, longitudinal, randomized clinical trial throughout one cycle of chemotherapy. SETTING Ten community clinical oncology programs associated with the M.D....

In bacteria, intrinsic termination signals cause disassembly of the highly stable elongating transcription complex (EC) over windows of two to three nucleotides after kilobases of RNA synthesis. Intrinsic termination is caused by the formation of a nascent RNA hairpin adjacent to a weak RNA-DNA hybrid within RNA polymerase (RNAP). Although the contributions of RNA and DNA sequences to terminati...