in this study, the effects of two metarhizium anisopliae isolates, originally obtained from red palm weevil (rhynchophorus ferrugineus) and a beetle (parandra caspica), on adults of russian wheat aphid diuraphis noxia were studied under laboratory coditions. after a determination of the minimum & maximum concentrations, the adults were treated with conidial concentrations of 1×103 to 1×106 coni...

The present study investigates fluid mechanical properties of cellulosic feedstocks relevant to flow through (FT) pretreatment for biological conversion of cellulosic biomass. The results inform identifying conditions for which FT pretreatment can be implemented in a practical context. Measurements of pressure drop across packed beds, viscous compaction and water absorption are reported for mil...

BACKGROUND Accurate segmentation of breast tissues is required for a number of applications such as model based deformable registration in breast radiotherapy. The accuracy of breast tissue segmentation is affected by the spatial distribution (or pattern) of fibroglandular tissue (FT). The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate texture features, determined from planning computed tomogra...

We investigated whether the repulsive SLIT/ROBO pathway is expressed in the endometrium and is negatively regulated during implantation. We also examined whether deficient expression in the Fallopian tube (FT) may predispose to ectopic pregnancy (EP). Endometrium (n = 21) and FT (n = 17) were collected across the menstrual cycle from fertile women with regular cycles. Decidualized endometrium (...

CONTEXT There is a large interindividual variation in serum (free) testosterone (FT) levels in men, underlain in part by genetic components. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to explore the hypothesis that this variability results in part from differences in androgen sensitivity and feedback loop set point and assess the role of the androgen receptor (AR) polyglutamine tract polymorphi...

abstract the grasses cold tolerance is the most important limiting factor for its cultivation in temperate regions, so using cold tolerant cultivars is essential for grasses successful cultivation. in order to evaluation freezing stress tolerance of several species of grasses, this study was conducted in agricultural faculty of ferdowsi university of mashhad as a factorial complete randomized b...

We demonstrate Lg = 100 nm high-speed enhancement-mode (E-mode) InAs quantum-well MOSFETs with outstanding high-frequency and logic performance. These devices feature a 3-nm Al2O3 layer grown by atomic layer deposition. The MOSFETs with Lg = 100 nm exhibit VT = 0.2 V (E-mode), RON = 370 Ω · μm, S = 105 mV/dec, DIBL = 100 mV/V, and gm_max = 1720 μS/μm at VDS = 0.5 V. They also have an excellent ...