Changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes, proline, and total soluble carbohydrates (TSC) were evaluated in tomato (Solanum lycopercicum cv. Superchief) plants in response to salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) and inoculation with CMV (Cucumber mosaic virus) on days 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 15 after virus inoculation (dpi). Results showed that proline content increased in all treatmen...

Dry powder inhalers (DPIs), opposed to the traditional pre-metered dose inhalers (MDIs), prove to be more advantageous in delivering the desired dosage of medication to the targeted site. Now, engineers are designing better DPIs and new carrier particles that have better characteristics for drug delivery.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) species and/or phosphorus addition in the soil can affect secondary metabolism production and growth plants. This study evaluated these effects on Piper divaricatum culture, which presents an essential oil rich phenylpropanoids. Growth parameters, leaf volatile composition, total phenolic content, enzymatic activity of lipoxygenase (LOX) phenylalanine ammonia-...

Although researchers have considered diversity in IT, few studies have specifically analyzed the underlying components of individual perceptions of diversity. This research-in-progress reports on an exploratory factor analysis as an initial step towards validating the Diversity Perceptions Inventory (DPI). The DPI was administered to a group of 165 students, and four factors emerged from the an...

An unusual but effective way to determine at threshold the dpi<-->NN transition strength alpha is to exploit the hadronic ground-state broadening Gamma(1s) in pionic deuterium, accessible by x-ray spectroscopy. The broadening is dominated by the true absorption channel dpi(-)-->nn, which is related to s-wave pion production pp-->dpi(+) by charge symmetry and detailed balance. Using the exotic a...

NADPH oxidases (NOXes) and dual oxidases (DUOXes) generate O2 (.-) and H2O2. Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) inhibits the activity of these enzymes and is often used as a specific inhibitor. It is shown here that DPI, at concentrations similar to those which inhibit the generation of O2 derivatives, activated the efflux of radioiodide but not of its analog (99m)TcO4 (-) nor of the K(+) cation mimic (...

This paper summarizes the results of a visual psychophysical investigation of the relationship between two important printer parameters: addressability (expressed in terms of dots per inch or DPI) and grayscale capability (expressed in terms of the number of graylevels per pixel). The photographic image quality of print output increases with both the printer DPI and the number of graylevels per...

The ability to discriminate between original documents and their photocopies poses a problem when conducting automated forensic examinations of large numbers of confiscated documents. This paper describes a novel frequency domain approach for printing technique and copy detection of scanned document images. Tests using a dataset consisting of 49 laser-printed, 14 inkjet-printed and 46 photocopi...

Summary: We implemented a statistical model into our protein interaction database for validation of two-hybrid assays of Helicobacter pylori, and prediction of putative protein interactions not yet discovered experimentally. To present the enormous amount of experimental and inferred protein interaction networking maps, the H. pylori Database of Protein Interactomes (hp-DPI) is developed with a...

We propose a new mapping scheme for AC-DFA tries to be used in FPGA implementation of deep packet inspection (DPI). Our scheme greatly reduces number of memory accesses which are responsible for most of the power consumption in DPI. We vary strides in the construction of AC-DFA tries in such a way that the number of memory accesses is minimized without increasing the memory space. Compared with...