abstract various mathematical water uptake models have been introduced for plants response to combined drought and salinity stress. the reduction functions are classified as additive, multiplicative and conceptual models. in this study six different macroscopic reduction functions, namely; van genuchten (additive and multiplicative), dirksen et al., van dam et al, skaggs et al and homaee were e...

In composing their review of posterior sacroiliac procedures, King et al. [1] responsibly complied with the requirements of the GRADE system for assessing quality of literature [2]. Doing so, however, generates what might be regarded, in some respects, as unexciting reading. King et al. [1] found the literature in general to be of moderate quality. However, the constraints of GRADE do not permi...

There is a widening Black:White breast cancer mortality disparity in Chicago (Figure 1). In 1980 the mortality rates were equal; by 2005 Black women were nearly twice as likely to die from breast cancer (Ansell et al, 2009; Whitman et al, 2011). This disparity has been increasing since the early 1990’s because the breast cancer mortality rates for Black women in Chicago have remained constant w...

Epidemiological studies have not identified causal factors for Alzheimer’s disease as seen in a number of reviews [Heyman et al., 1984; Mortimer and Hutton, 1985; Rocca et al., 1986; Schoenberg, 1986; Broe et al., 1990; Beard et al., 1992; Breteler et al., 1992; White, 1992; Disterhoft et al., 1994; Katzman and Kawas, 1994; Prince et al., 1994; Keefover, 1996; van Duijn, 1996]. However, recentl...

Studies of cancer epidemiology in the UK continue to show ethnic differences in cancer incidence and mortality (Bhopal & Rankin, 1996; Bahl, 1996; Moller, 2008; BenShlomo, 2008). Although cancer incidence is somewhat lower among minority ethnic people than the majority white population, cancer mortality is consistently higher among minority ethnic people. Biomedical and socioeconomic factors ar...

Based on the identification of 38 white dwarfs with halo kinematics, in a survey covering 10% of the sky near the south galactic pole, Oppenheimer et al. (1) argued that at least 2% of the dark matter in the Milky Way galaxy has now been detected directly. Put into context, the Oppenheimer et al. result implies that the stellar remnant mass of the halo may be comparable to that of the entire di...

The White Bass Morone chrysops is a popular sport fish that appears to be negatively affected by invasions of White Perch M. americana and often declines or disappears from invaded systems. In 2008, the first discovery of White Perch in Lake James, North Carolina, provided a rare opportunity to investigate trophic overlap between White Perch and a robust population of White Bass near the onset ...