The assessment of groundwater irrigation using robust tools is essential for the sustenance agro-environment in arid and semi-arid regions. This study presents a reliable method consisting combination multivariate analysis geostatistical modeling to assess resources Western Middle Cheliff (Algeria). For this goal, mean data from 87 wells collected during April July 2017 were used. hierarchical ...

A new family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored beta(1-3)glucanosyltransferases (Gelp), recently identified and characterized in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, showed functional similarity to the Gas/Phr/Epd protein families, which are involved in yeast morphogenesis. Sequence comparisons and hydrophobic cluster analysis (HCA) showed that all the Gas/Phr/Epd/Gel proteins be...

We aimed to develop a reliable method based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) to discriminate Escherichia coli clones from B2(n = 9) and D(n = 13) phylogenetic groups. Eighty-eight E. coli isolates belonging to phylogenetic groups B2(n = 39) and D(n = 49), including particularly widespread high risk clones or clonal complexes (HiRCC) ST131, ...

Raman spectroscopy has recently been shown to be a potentially powerful whole-organism fingerprinting technique and is attracting interest within microbial systematics for the rapid identification of bacteria and fungi. However, while the Raman effect is so weak that only approximately 1 in 10(8) incident photons are Raman scattered (so that collection times are in the order of minutes), it can...

Dietary restriction (DR)-induced changes in the serum metabolome may be biomarkers for physiological status (e.g., relative risk of developing age-related diseases such as cancer). Megavariate analysis (unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis [HCA]; principal components analysis [PCA]) of serum metabolites reproducibly distinguish DR from ad libitum fed rats. Component-based approaches (i.e....

The study of mundane, everyday uses the Internet remains an emerging field inquiry. Analysing data from a large seven country survey use and adapting concepts methods developed by Bourdieu, we show that there are distinct clusters users who in diverse ways to solve problems, such as buying mobile phone or diagnosing illness. Such problem-solving is dependent upon degrees economic, social, digit...

Thirty-three air samples were collected by high-volume samplers from May 2007 to June 2008 in the coastal area of southwest Taiwan and analyzed for total suspended particulates (TSP) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Concentrations of TSP and total PAHs ranged from 40.4 to 251 μg m(-3) and 1.86-56.4 ng m(-3), respectively. Except for joss paper burning during the religious celebratio...

RATIONALE With the advent of primary PCI (PPCI), reperfusion is achieved in almost all patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction. However, despite multiple trials, reperfusion injury has not been successfully dealt with so far. In mouse models, CD4(+) T lymphocytes (T cells) have been shown to be crucial instigators of reperfusion injury. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to investigate the r...

The present study was carried out near an industrial area with a high-density urban population and large-scale agricultural activities. These anthropogenic activities lead to groundwater pollution depletion of the water table. This attempted classify sources hydrochemical facies that help ensure suitability for agriculture drinking. Irrigation indexes, quality index (WQI), principal component a...

The aims of the present study were to assess phenotypic diversity among 221 sunflower accessions INTA Pergamino Sunflower Breeding Program, obtain discriminant functions that allow classification new in similar groups and evaluate relationship between genetic distance pairwise hybrid performance for grain yield oil content. We used 19 quantitative descriptors morphological variability. Principa...