Association of phytoplasma with quick decline of macadamia trees in Hawaii was reevaluated. Twenty samples were collected from symptomatic and symptomless trees of the two susceptible cultivars cv. 333, and cv. 344 grown at Keaau and Kaiwiki on the island of Hawaii. Ultrasensitive nested-PCR assays using two universal primer pairs failed to detect phytoplasmas in all samples tested, contradicti...

Artem R. Oganov, Department of Geosciences, Center for Materials by Design, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny city, Moscow Region, Russian Federation; Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Andriy O. Lyakhov and Qiang Zhu, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook Universi...

Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--have made considerable progress in vaccine production, regulation and development over the past 20 years. In 1993, all five countries were producing vaccines but the processes used were outdated and non-standardized, there was little relevant research and there was negligible international recognition o...

Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic, Department of Mathematics, Rostov State University, R. Zorge 5, 344090 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA {aolypher, lansky, fenton}@biomed....

Geobacillus stearothermophilus strains 22 and 53 were isolated from sediment samples isolated from the Garga hot spring (72°C) located in the valley of the river Barguzin (the Baikal region, Russian Federation) (54°19'3.72″N, 110°59'38.4″E).

BACKGROUND To identify demographic and socio-economic factors that are associated with household expenditure on tobacco in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, and Tajikistan. METHODS Secondary analysis of the data available through the World Bank Living Standards Monitoring Survey conducted in aforementioned countries in 1995-2000. The role of different variables ...

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

CNRS / Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Partially supported by a Projet Incitatif de Recherche contract from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. London SW7 2AZ, UK. Partially supported by the European Research Council’s Advanced Grant 267382 FCCA. [email protected] Secti...