this study was carried out to evaluate the association between laboratory seed characteristics and seedling emergence of canola cultivars that it's were produced under different irrigation regime and planting date. the treatments were included two planting date and two levels of irrigation (main factors) and seeds of five canola cultivars (sub factor) which in first year (2006-2007) had be...

Most degenerative diseases are caused by free radicals. Antioxidin-RL peptide is a free radical scavenger found in the skin of plateau frog Odorrana livida, which is more stable than vitamin C as it resists light-induced degradation. However, whether and how antioxidin-RL protects cells from oxidative stress was not clear. Here we addressed this issue, and in addition, we designed a series of a...

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Studies of the plasticity of functional root traits involved in resource acquisition have focused mainly on root length without considering such 'morphological components' as biomass allocation, specific root length, root fineness, and tissue density that affect root length. The plasticity of the above components in response to nitrate supply was studied in each root order o...

Abbreviations: BH: Body Height; HL: Humeral Length; RL: Radial Length; UL: Ulna Length; CL: Clavicle Length; F: Female; M: male; R: Multiple Correlation Coefficient Value; R2: Percentage Contribution by the Explanatory Variable to the Variation in the Dependent Variable (BH); R2adjusted: Compares the Regression Models Containing Different Number of Explanatory Variables (Upper Limbs Segments i....

the inheritance of cold resistance was evaluated at the germination stage in crosses between seven rice genotypes as half diallel. analysis of variance indicated that there were highly significant differences among the genotypes, general combining ability (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) for percentage of reduction in radicle length (rl), percentage of reduction in plumule length (pl)...

We build a deep reinforcement learning (RL) agent that can predict the likelihood of an individual testing positive for malaria by asking questions about their household. The RL agent learns to determine which survey question to ask next and when to stop to make a prediction about their likelihood of malaria based on their responses hitherto. The agent incurs a small penalty for each question a...

Genome function in higher eukaryotes involves major changes in the spatial organization of the chromatin fiber. Nevertheless, our understanding of chromatin folding is remarkably limited. Polymer models have been used to describe chromatin folding. However, none of the proposed models gives a satisfactory explanation of experimental data. In particularly, they ignore that each chromosome occupi...