The response of tomato genotype Cal-ji  against five salinity levels (distilled water as control, 25, 50, 75 and 100 mM) were studied at germination and early seedling stages. An experiment with conducted by using a completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. Shoot and root length, shoot and root fresh weight, seed vigor, mean germination time, germination percentage an...

We evaluated the effect of a low potassium diet on blood pressure in normotensive (NT) and in borderline hypertensive subjects (BHT). There were 11 BHT men (age, 24.6 +/- 1.2 years) and 10 NT men (age, 23.5 +/- 1.0 years). Subjects were studied while on both low potassium, high sodium (30 meq/day, 400 meq/day) diets and high potassium, high sodium (100 meq/day, 400 meq/day) diets, each taken fo...

Objective The proper treatment of chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (CIMR) is still under evaluation. The different role of mitral valve repair (MVr) or mitral valve prosthesis insertion (MVPI) is still not defined. Methods From May 2009 to December 2011 167 patients with ejection fraction (EF) ≤ 40% had MV surgery for CIMR, MVr in 135 (80.8%) and MVPI in 32 (19.2%). Indication to MVPI wa...

abstract the present study is attempted to present the minimum required meteorological parameters for reference evapotranspiration estimation at hamedan region of iran from 1997 to 1998. employing pierson test, six meteorological parameters which are used by penman-montieth fao-56 method including maximum and minimum air temperature, maximum and minimum relative humidity, wind speed and daily s...

BACKGROUND Walking and cardiovascular mortality are inversely associated in type 2 diabetes, but few studies have objectively measured associations of walking with individual cardiovascular risk factors. Such information would be useful for "dosing" daily steps in clinical practice. This study aimed to quantify decrements in blood pressure and glycated hemoglobin (A1C) per 1,000 daily step incr...

Around one million metric ton of plastics is produced worldwide daily. Plastic contamination aggravated when the particles reach sizes between 5 mm and 1 μm, giving rise to microplastics, which are omnipresent in environment, especially agroecosystems. To appreciate magnitude this problem, review analyzes 177 scientific works focus on occurrence effects microplastics agricultural soils. Firstly...

UNLABELLED To identify the mean normal length of the metatarsals and the most common metatarsal formulas through a simple measurement method, thereby providing surgeons with data for planning treatment on symptomatic individuals with biometric abnormalities of the foot. METHODS We evaluated and measured dorsoplantar weight-bearing radiographs of normal adult feet (83 males and 83 females). ...

Corrigendum: A load of mice to hypergravity causes AMPKα repression with liver injury, which is overcome by preconditioning loads via Nrf2 Sang Gil Lee, Chan Gyu Lee, Hong Min Wu, Choong Sik Oh, So Won Chung & Sang Geon Kim Scientific Reports 5:15643; doi: 10.1038/srep15643; published online 23 October 2015; updated 05 October 2016 This Article contains errors in Figure 5A and Figure 8. In Figu...