Abstract Plant disease quantification, mainly the intensity of symptoms on individual units (severity), is basis for a plethora research and applied purposes in plant pathology related disciplines. These include evaluating treatment effect, monitoring epidemics, understanding yield loss, phenotyping host resistance. Although sensor technology has been available to measure severity using visible...

INTRODUCTION While many countries have adopted prominent pictorial warning labels (PWLs) for cigarette packs, the USA still requires only small, text-only labels located on one side of the cigarette pack that have little effect on smoking-related outcomes. Tobacco industry litigation blocked implementation of a 2011 Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rule requiring large PWLs. To inform FDA a...

A species abundance distribution (herein ‘ SAD ’ ) describes the abundances of all species sampled within a given community (Ulrich et al. 2010). Because SADs characterise the structure of ecological communities, they constitute the foundation of much (macro-) ecological and biogeographical theory (Preston 1948). Th us, considerable eff ort has been made to characterise empirical SADs in a stat...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) after treatment with the Incredible Years Program. The frequency of symptoms was also calculated. METHOD The participants were 84 children (aged 4.1-8.9 years) diagnosed with ODD before treatment. The data were collected with KIDDIE-SADS interviews before treatment and at a 1-year follow-up. RESULTS At the 1-yea...

Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD), locating in the plastid stroma, is an important fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme in higher plants. SAD catalyzes desaturation of stearoyl-ACP to oleyl-ACP and plays a key role in determining the homeostasis between saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, which is an important player in cold acclimation in plants. Here, four new full-lengt...

AIMS To provide insight into the mechanism of sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) and to give new clinical guidelines for the cardiac management of patients with the most common mitochondrial DNA mutation, m.3243A>G. These studies were initiated after two young, asymptomatic adults harbouring the m.3243A>G mutation died suddenly and unexpectedly. The m.3243A>G mutation is present in ∼1 in 400 of...

INTRODUCTION Effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation with appropriate airway management improves outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Historically, tracheal intubation has been accepted as the optimal form of OHCA airway management in the UK. The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee recently concluded that newer supraglottic airway devices (SADs) are safe and ef...

BACKGROUND Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can lead to drastic problems for the patient and its worldwide prevalence is 5%-12%. It also has many comorbidities with other disorders, and the genetic contribution seems the most significant cause. OBJECTIVES The current study was conducted to investigate the association between norepinephrine transporter-3081 (A/T) polymorphisms a...

Meltwater produced at the surface of glaciers and ice sheets has important implications for basal sliding rates therefore flow velocities. In order to determine role supraglacial water in dynamics predict future changes, we first need understand be able accurately moulin input rates. To this end, present Subaerial Drainage System (SaDS) model. SaDS is a dynamic model that couples runoff bare-ic...

Abstract Objective Single-anastomosis duodenal switch (SADS) has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the standard double-anastomosis (DADS). The objective of this study was compare short- and medium-term outcomes between SADS DADS. Methods Data collected Ontario Bariatric Registry 2010 2019 were used for retrospective determine patients undergoing primary laparoscopic versus DADS at a ...