Plants depend on the surrounding light environment to direct their growth. Blue light (300-500 nm) in particular acts to promote a wide variety of photomorphogenic responses including seedling establishment, phototropism and circadian clock regulation. Several different classes of flavin-based photoreceptors have been identified that mediate the effects of blue light in the dicotyledonous genet...

INTRODUCTION Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has become routine and widely accepted for the removal of solitary pulmonary nodules of unknown etiology. Thoracosopic techniques continue to evolve with better instruments, robotic applications, and increased patient acceptance and awareness. Several techniques have been described to localize peripheral pulmonary nodules, including pre-operat...

Efficient generation of tunable femtosecond pulses in the blue is reported in the nonlinear crystal BiB3O6. By use of fundamental pulses from a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser at 76 MHz, single-pass second-harmonic average powers of as much as 830 mW have been generated at 50% conversion efficiency, and a tunable range of 375-435 nm in the blue is demonstrated. Temporal measurements using cross c...

It was found that a slide centrifuge (Cytospin) preparation of a cell suspension allowed a reliable assessment of not only cell structure but also the percentage of non-viable cells. The non-viable cells appeared as "smear" cells and paralleled in number the cells taking up trypan blue. Direct experiment showed the unstained viable cells in a trypan blue cell suspension remained intact in a Cyt...

Inrat liver microsomal fractions oxidation of adrenaline was effected by superoxide anion radicals (A), whereas cytochrome c, 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol and ferricyanide accepted electrons from NADPH-specific filavoprotein only directly. Nitro Blue Tetrazolium was reduced both by 02and by tbe direct acceptance of electrons. Elevation ofpH and addition of menadione shift the Nitro Blue Tetraz...

Abstract A measurable metric to gauge both the amount of water pollution and consumption per unit crop is footprint (WF). WF can be used as a thorough indicator utilization freshwater resources. To increase yield crops, agriculture, consumed large water. prevent shortages, it crucial understand how much during agriculture. This study’s goal estimate region Kedah’s for paddy cultivation in year ...