Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris) is a major disease that can cause up to 90% yield loss in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The presence of 8 physiological races Foc (0, 1A, 1B/C, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) makes it complex task the development disease-resistant cultivar. Thus, Pyramiding 1, 4 was undertaken using WR 315 as donor Pusa 372 recurrent parent through Marker assisted backcross...

BACKGROUND Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is characterized by impaired development of motor coordination, with impact on daily life activities and academic performance. The Motor Coordination and Dexterity Assessment (MCDA) was created to offer Brazilian rehabilitation professionals a valid and reliable instrument for detecting DCD. OBJECTIVE To examine the MCDA criterion validity....

PURPOSE This study investigated the effect of an eight-week community-based strength and balance exercise group for children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD Ten children with CP participated in the study (8-15 years; six male; GMFCS I = 6, II = 4; five diplegia; five hemiplegia). Muscle strength was assessed using dynamometry and functional strength tests (seated throw, distance jump, vertic...

Sensory organisation of balance control is compromised in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). A randomised controlled trial involving 88 children with DCD was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a task-specific balance training (functional-movement training, FMT) programme in improving balance deficits in a DCD population. The DCD participants were randomly assigned to ei...

This study examined the effect of short-term auditory pacing practice on dual motor task performance in children with and without dyslexia. Groups included dyslexic with Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC) scores > 15th percentile (D_HIGH, n = 18; mean age 9.89 +/- 2.0 years), dyslexic with MABC < or = 15th percentile (D_LOW, n = 15; mean age 10.43 +/- 1.8 years), and typically deve...

Breast cancer (BC), is a heterogeneous disease, divided into molecular subtypes based on gene expression and clinical outcomes. MABC poorly diagnosed subtype, characterized by estrogen (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) negativity, HER-2-amplification in most cases; yet it overexpresses androgen (AR) activates its pathway. Its improper diagnosis demands the adoption of complementary tools to refi...

Fusarium wilt (FW), caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris and Ascochyta blight (AB), caused by Ascochyta rabiei are two major constraints to chickpea production. Therefore, two parallel marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) programmes by targeting foc 1 locus and two QTL regions, ABQTL-I and ABQTL-II were undertaken to introgress resistance to FW and AB, respectively in C 214, an elite cult...

Memetic algorithms (MA), explored in recent literature, are hybrid metaheuristics formed by the synergistic combination of a population-based global search technique with one or more local search algorithms, which in turn can be exact or stochastic methods. Different versions of MAs have been developed, and although their use was focused originally on combinatorial optimization, nowadays there ...