BACKGROUND The number of opioids prescribed and used has increased precipitously over the past 2 decades for a number of reasons and has led to increases in long-term dependency, opioid-related deaths, and diversion. Most studies examining the role of prescribing habits have investigated nonoperative providers, although there is some literature describing perioperative opioid prescription and u...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers were developed for an indigenous fruit tree, Parkia biglobosa, as a tool to study reproductive biology and population structure. Here we use the primers to determine the number of fathers per pod. • METHODS AND RESULTS Microsatellite loci were enriched in a genomic sample and isolated using pyrosequencing. Eleven primer pairs were char...

The aims of this study were to determine the proximate composition of cacao pod husk as well as the optimal conditions for extraction and purification of theobromine from cacao pod husk. The results indicated that cacao pod husk had high contents of moisture and carbohydrate (87.06% and 11.03% by fresh weight, respectively), but low contents of crude protein, crude lipid, and ash (0.31%, 0.12%,...

It is well-known that the performance of POD and POD-DEIM methods depends on the selection of the snapshot locations. In this work, we consider the selections of the locations for POD and POD-DEIM snapshots for spatially semi-discretized linear or semi-linear parabolic PDEs. We present an approach that for a fixed number of snapshots the optimal locations may be selected such that the global di...

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This study setout to investigate the effect of wheat residue, tillage, and nitrogen fertilizer management on some agronomic traits of soybean as a split split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications. The main plots included wheat residue management: collecting and leaving residue and sub plot included tillage (without tillage and conventional tillage), and the sub...

abstract to evaluate the effects of the irrigation termination in different growth stages on yield and its components of autumn’s canola cultivars in isfahan region. an experiment was conducted in 2005-2006 in kabotar abad research station. a split plot layout within a randomized complete block design with tree replication was used. main plots were seven level of the irrigation cut-off time (d1...

Traditionally, proprioception has been assessed with a passive model, in which an external apparatus moves a body segment. Recently, protocols have been developed based on active movements, which are more representative of functional activities. However, even these approaches require expensive testing equipment and the necessity of a visit to a research lab, as there are no commercially availab...

In this paper we study solutions of an inverse problem for a global shallow water model controlling its initial conditions speci ed from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) datasets, in presence of full or incomplete observations being assimilated in a time interval(window of assimilation) with or without background error covariance terms. As an extension of the work in Chen et al., 2009, we a...

In this paper we study solutions of an inverse problem for a global shallow water model controlling its initial conditions speci ed from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) datasets, in presence of full or incomplete observations being assimilated in a time interval (window of assimilation) with or without background error covariance terms. As an extension of the work in Chen et al., 2009, we ...