In the present study, we provided a cue (face or vase) beforehand to make subjects attend the target stimuli in the vase-face ambiguous figure, and compared the spatiotemporal cortical activation patterns underlying face (face-face) or vase (vase-vase) processing to the ambiguous figure using high-density (64-channel) event-related brain potential (ERP) recordings. Scalp ERP analysis found that...

A study was conducted to test the effect of 58.5 mM maltose, glucose, fructose, galactose and sucrose, and sucrose concentrations of 14.6, 29.2, 58.5 and 117.0 mM supplemented with 200 mg L-1 8-hydroxyquinoline sulphate (HQS) on the vase life and stem fresh weight changes in waxflower (Chamelaucium Desf.). The effect of the interaction between sucrose and HQS concentrations on the vase life of ...

We used conventional cross-breeding techniques to develop many carnation lines with long vase life and either low ethylene production or low ethylene sensitivity. Two cycles of selection and crossing to improve vase life led to a 3.6-day increase in mean vase life. All 39 selected lines had signi®cantly longer vase life than the control cultivar, `White Sim'. In particular, second-generation li...

During development of the rat central nervous system, neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) mRNAs containing in the extracellular domain a 30-bp alternative exon, here named VASE, replace RNAs that lack this exon. The presence of this alternative exon between previously described exons 7 and 8 changes the predicted loop structure of the derived polypeptide from one resembling an immunoglobulin c...

Filtering out traffic with forged source address on routers can significantly improve the security of Internet. However, despite intermittent IP spoofing attacks, existing filtering mechanisms inspect each packet all the time, consuming considerable resource on routers even there is no spoofing at all. This article considers the requirement for a solution performing IP spoofing filtering with a...

Transition curves with monotone curvature profile are widely applied in fair curve design. Advantage of using transition curve is that it can avoid the undesirable curvature extrema. Demonstration of transition curve in designing surface of revolution, particular of vase design can be often seen in literature. For these demonstrations, authors mainly focused on the curvature control of the vase...

The effects of pulse treatment with gibberellin A3 (GA3), silveT thiosulfate complex (STS), and with or without sucrose on chlorophyll degTadation and vase life of cut flowers of Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis were investigated. The 20-hr pulsing treatment with STS extended the vase life of cut fiowers of IVL tazetta var. chinensis, Pulse treatments with GA3 delayed degradation of chlorophyll...

The effect of leaf extracts of Psidium guajava and Piper betle on prolonging vase life of cut carnation flowers was studied. "Carola" and "Pallas Orange" carnation flowers, at bud stage, were pulsed 24 hours with a floral preservative. Then, flowers were placed in a vase solution containing sprite and a "germicide" (leaf extracts of P. guajava and P. betle, 8-HQC, or a copper coin). Flowers tre...

The respiration of cut flowers of gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii H. Bolus ex Hook.f. 'Vesuvio') and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) increased exponentially with increasing storage temperature. Poststorage vase life and negatively gravitropic bending of the neck of the flowers were both strongly affected by simulated transport at higher temperatures. Vase life and stem bending after dry storage sho...

The effect of exogenous salicylic acid (SA) on the vase life of cut rose flowers was investigated. ‘Yellow Island’ roses were obtained from a commercial grower. The roses were pulse treated with SA (0, 50, 100, 150, 200 mg l) for 18 hours. Compared to the control treatment (DW), the greatest delay in senescence was obtained in cut roses treated with 150 mg l SA. With this treatment, flower vase...