L-Ascorbic acid (AsA) accumulates in pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings during germination, with the most rapid phase of accumulation coinciding with radicle emergence. Monodehydroascorbate reductase and dehydroascorbic acid reductase were active in the embryonic axes before AsA accumulation started, whereas AsA oxidase and AsA peroxidase activities increased in parallel with AsA. Excised embryon...

Ascorbate (vitamin C) is essential for cell metabolism, and its supply to the human diet derives basically from the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Several biosynthetic pathways of ascorbate have been reported in plants, the major physiological one being the so-called Smirnoff-Wheeler pathway. Ascorbate is a powerful antioxidant in plants, although it also plays an important role in hormo...

Algorithmic brands: A decade of brand experiments with mobile and social media Nicholas Carah, University of Queensland Published in New Media and Society here: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/10/1461444815605463.abstract Citation: Carah, N. (2015). Algorithmic brands: a decade of brand experiments with mobile and social media, New Media and Society, 1-16. doi 10.1177/1461444815605...

Most discoveries of cancer biomarkers involve construction of a single model to determine predictions of survival.. 'Data-mining' techniques, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), perform better than traditional methods, such as logistic regression. In this study, the quality of multiple predictive models built on a molecular data set for colorectal cancer (CRC) was evaluated. Predictive m...

Landslide susceptibility models are fundamental components of landslide risk management strategies. These typically assume that occurrence is time-independent, even though processes including earthquake preconditioning and path dependency transiently impact occurrence. Understanding the temporal characteristics remains limited by a lack systematic investigation into how distributions vary throu...

the present study was an attempt to investigate varieties of cloze test and c-test as measures of reading comprehension ability. it aimed at comparing the performances of subjects on different cloze and c-test forms constructed from the same passage. to this end, five versions of cloze test and two versions of c-test were developed by applying different deletion techniques and deletion rates, a...