Agronomic biofortification increases the concentration of target mineral in edible portions crops by use fertilizers to increase dietary intake minerals. Among these iron and zinc deficiencies human nutrition are noticed countries where maize is staple food. The objective this study was evaluate agronomic performance association with Integrated Nutrient Management (Zea mays .L). conducted under...

In his 1974 thesis, Martin Scharlemann constructed a fake homotopy equivalence from a closed smooth manifold f : Q → S3 × S1#S2 × S2, and asked the question whether or not the manifold Q itself is diffeomorphic to S3 × S1#S2 × S2. Here we answer this question affirmatively. In [Sc] Scharlemann showed that if Σ3 is the Poincaré homology 3-sphere, by surgering the 4-manifold Σ× S, along a loop in...

The beneficial role of marcasite in iron-sulfide-based photo-electrochemical applications is reported for the first time. A spectacular improvement of the photoresponse observed experimentally for mixed pyrite/marcasite-FeS2 films can be ascribed to the presence of p/m phase junctions at the interface. Density functional theory calculations show that the band alignment at the phase boundary con...

Many event-related fMRI designs involve multiple successive events occurring within a trial, spaced closely in time (e.g., in cued set-shifting paradigms). Yet, it is notoriously difficult to separate the activation components to these sequentially ordered events, given the long evolution time of the BOLD response. One approach to deal with this problem is to omit the second of two successive e...

Utilizing polysomnography (PSG) and psychometry, objective and subjective sleep and awakening quality was investigated in 11 drug-free patients (five females, six males) aged 35-75 years (mean age 54.1 +/- 11.4) suffering from nonorganic insomnia (F 51.0) related to a depressive episode (F 32) or recurrent depressive disorder (F 33). as compared with 11 age- and sex-matched normal controls (fiv...

PURPOSE Cross-talk between type I IGF receptor (IGF1R), insulin receptor (INSR), and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mediates resistance to individual receptor blockade. This study aimed to determine the MTD, safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary antitumor activity of linsitinib, a potent oral IGF1R/INSR inhibitor, with EGFR inhibitor erlotinib. EXPERIMENTAL DESI...

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to investigate the characteristics and evolution of sulfur (S) in mixtures of bituminous coal and sewage sludge (SS) and their chars during isothermal combustion. Five groups of mixtures with SS content of 0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and 100%, were examined at different burn-off ratios (beta) of 0, 30%, 50%, 70% and 100%. The S in the coal mainly exist as the for...