BACKGROUND Research in adult populations has highlighted sex differences in cortisol concentrations and laboratory pain responses, with men exhibiting higher cortisol concentrations and reduced pain responses compared with women. Yet, less is known about the relationship of cortisol concentrations to pain in children. OBJECTIVE This study examined associations between sex, cortisol, and pain ...

The peak effect has been investigated in clean Nb crystals with artificially corrugated surfaces by measuring the linear surface impedance in the 1kHz1MHz frequency range. From a two-mode analysis of the complex spectra, we establish that vortex dynamics is governed by surface pinning and deduce the associated vortex slippage length. We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that the peak...

Five tomato cultivars were studied for inheritance of bacterial wilt resistance. Lines AVTO1429, AVTO1424, and AVTO1314 have the resistance gene, Roma VF lacks Valoria Select is claimed to but has not been evaluated. The study, which was carried out in a split plot design, involved six generations backcrosses that conducted greenhouse field. Artificial inoculation Ralstonia solanacearum greenho...

The linac-driven Vacuum-Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser (VUV-FEL) at DESY, Hamburg produces short pulses of intense soft X-ray radiation. As the high gain FEL process depends strongly on a high peak current of the electron bunches, it is necessary to measure and control the bunch length. For this purpose, coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) from a bending magnet of the bunch compressor BC2 is ...

BACKGROUND Implementation science seeks to promote the uptake of research and other evidence-based findings into practice, but for healthcare professionals, this is complex as practice draws on, in addition to scientific principles, rules of thumb and a store of practical wisdom acquired from a range of informational and experiential sources. The aims of this review were to identify sources of ...

Parental lines, namely: F1, F2, BC1, BC2, BC11, BC12, BC21, BC22, BC1 selfed, and BC2 selfed generations of three crosses involving six cultivars of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) were studied for awn length under normaland late-sown environments to analyze the nature of gene effects and components of heterosis (over the better parent). A sixparameter model in the cross Cocorit 71 x A-9-30-...