and Applied Analysis 3 then HIDS will reduce to the following fixed point problem P3 : P3 Find v v i∈I ∈ Y such that vi ∈ Fi vi and v ∈ Gi v, yi for all yi ∈ Ti v for all i ∈ I. Example 1.4. For each i ∈ I, let Fi : X × Yi Ui and Gi : Y × Yi Zi be multivalued maps with nonempty values. If Hi and Ai are defined as follows: Hi { yi ∈ Yi : θUi / ∈ Fi ( u, yi )} , Ai ( y ) { zi ∈ Yi : θZi / ∈ Gi ( ...

The stressed pulp condition is a clinical concept that describes pulps that have received repeated previous injury and survived with diminished responses and lessened repair potentials. Before performing restorative dentistry the dentist should conduct a comprehensive pulpal health evaluation on teeth to be restored. This evaluation should include (1) traditional pulp-testing methods and (2) a ...

External eaters reportedly increase snack intake when stressed, which could be due to an attentional shift towards food stimuli. Attentional biases for food stimuli were tested in high and low external eaters in stress and control conditions, using a computerised Stroop. A significant interaction was observed between external eating group and condition for snack word bias. This suggested that l...

Root surface colonization by Azospirillum brasilense Cd of tomato, pepper and cotton plants under normal growth conditions and soybean plants under normal and water-stress conditions was monitored by scanning electron microscopy and bacterial counts. A. brasilense Cd was capable of efficiently colonizing the elongation and roothair zones of all four plant species tested. In these zones, the bac...

In an effort to determine the biochemical markers for identifying genotypes before sowing for drought tolerance, changes in activities of antioxidant enzymes were determined in the seedlings of five drought-tolerant and five drought-sensitive wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes, each with different genetic background growing under normal and water deficit conditions induced by 6% mannitol. I...

This study examines the phonetic correlates of stress and accent in Catalan, analyzing syllable duration, spectral balance, vowel quality, and overall intensity in two stress [stressed, unstressed] and in two accent conditions [accented, unaccented]. Catalan reveals systematic phonetic differences between accent and stress, consistent with previous work on Dutch, English, and Spanish (Slujter &...

Drought is one of the most important abiotic stresses affecting the productivity of maize. Previous studies have shown that expression of a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) gene activated an oxidative signal cascade and led to the tolerance of freezing, heat, and salinity stress in transgenic tobacco. To analyse the role of activation of oxidative stress signalling in imp...

Soil salinity is one of the most severe factors limiting nodulation, yield and physiological response in soybean. The possible role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in restricting mineral nutrients and thus alleviating soil salinity stress during plant growth has not yet been established. In this study, the beneficial effects of inoculation with salt-stressed PGPR strains were inv...

Stress-testing (forced degradation) studies have been conducted on pemetrexed disodium heptahydrate (1) (LY231514·2Na·7H2O) drug substance in order to identify its likely degradation products and establish its degradation pathways. Solid samples of the drug substance were stressed under various conditions of heat, humidity, and light, and solutions of the drug substance were stressed under vari...

The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) during an orthostatic challenge is attenuated in heat-stressed individuals. To accomplish this objective, MSNA was measured during graded lower body negative pressure (LBNP) in nine subjects under normothermic and heat-stressed conditions. Progressive LBNP was applied at -3, -6, -9,...