Aquaporins (AQPs) are major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) that mediate bidirectional flux of water and other substrates across cell membranes, and play critical roles in plant-water relations, dehydration stress responses and crop productivity. However, limited data are available as yet on the contributions of these proteins to the physiology of the major crop barley (Hordeum vulgare). The present ...

Objective(s): Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury of spinal cord is leading to the paraplegia observed. In this study, we investigated the protective effect of the saffron extract on spinal cord I/R injury. Materials and Methods: Thirty five male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups: intact, sham surgery, normal saline (NS), low dose saffron aqua extract, high dose saffron aqua extract....

Aim: To determine the efficacy of an Aqua-AeroFit, a Water-Based Exercise program, on cardiorespiratory endurance patients with psychiatric conditions in selected rehabilitation centers. Methods: This study had quasi-experimental design 30 participants assigned to water-based exercise program and land-based program. All were center. The water consisted Aqua jogging for 10 mins, Aqua-Aero Zumba ...

The title compound, [Ni(SO(4))(C(5)H(5)N)(H(2)O)(3)](n), was synthesized by the hydro-thermal reaction of NiSO(4)·6H(2)O, pyridine and water. The central Ni(II) atom is coordinated in a distorted octa-hedral environment by a pyridine N atom, three aqua O atoms and two O atoms of bridging sulfate anions, yielding a zigzag chain. A three-dimensional network is generated via complex hydrogen bonds...

The reaction of manganese(II) sulfate and 2-amino-pyrazine affords the title salt, [Mn(H(2)O)(6)][Mn(C(4)H(5)N(3))(2)(H(2)O)(4)](SO(4))(2)·2H(2)O. The metal atoms in the tetra-aqua-coordinated and hexa-aqua-coordinated cations lie on centers of inversion in octa-hedral geometries. The cations, anions and solvent water mol-ecules are linked by O-H⋯O, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds into a three-d...

Cooperative ubiquitous environments support user interaction and cooperative work by adapting to the prevalent situation of the present users. They are typically complex and have many environment components—interconnected devices and software modules—that realise new interaction techniques and facilitate collaboration. Despite this complexity, users need to be able to easily adapt their environ...

This paper describes a proposal of multiple ontology data integration system for a question answering framework called AQUA. We propose an approach for mediating between a given query and a set of resources. This method is based on a Meta-ontology (which contains contents of each individual sources) and our similarity algorithm based on analysis of neighborhood of classes. We argue that AQUA ca...