The effect of cadmium chloride concentrations (25.50, 75, and 100 mg/kg soil), seeds pre-irradiated by low doses of gamma rays (15, 30, 45, and 60 Gy), potassium chloride (60 mg/kg soil) and the combination of cadmium + gamma and cadmium + potassium on Brassica rapa germination, oxidative stress and antioxidant system were investigated under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. Germination per...

Dear Editor, Recently, engineered endonucleases, such as Zinc-Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) (Carroll, 2011), Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs) (Mahfouz et al., 2011; Li et al., 2012), and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas) systems (Cong et al., 2013) have been successfully used for gene editing in a variety of species. These syst...

Auxin is a principal growth hormone in plants. A study by Schepetilnikov et al (2013) now reports that TOR is activated by auxin and regulates expression of auxinresponsive genes by facilitating translation reinitiation of mRNAs with uORFs at their 50 UTRs. In this way, TOR acts at the crossroad of the plasma membrane and nuclear auxin signalling pathways to link auxin with general nutrient sig...

Pleural infection is associated with 20% mortality in the 80 000 new cases per year in the UK and USA. Streptococcus species cause w50% of community-acquired bacterial pleural infection. Staphylococcus aureus and anaerobes are isolated in 8% and 20% of cases, respectively, and 12% of pleural infections yield polymicrobial cultures. However, even using culture and nucleic acid amplification tech...

This paper describes the use of phenomenography to explore the different ways in which language learners experience Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The use of computer as well as new media has dominated language learning and teaching (Gamper and Knapp, 2002) and raised new potentials and possibilities in the field. These new possibilities need to be further exploited in order for in...

how to cite this article: inaloo s, katibeh p. an epidemiologic study of 389 children with epilepsy in southern iran.iranian journal of child neurology2011;5(4):15-20 objective approximately 4% of the world's population experience one or more febrile seizures during their lifetime, and 0.5-1% of the population has active epilepsy.less than one-third of the reported seizures are categorized as e...

Confidence in identifying different diagnostic categories of mental disorders by general health workers who provide the bulk of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) mental health care is vital for the country’s provision of mental health care. Making a psychiatric diagnosis is complicated by PNG’s diverse culture and estimated 800 distinct languages. These cultural-linguistic factors influence help-seeking...

•Compressed k-mer groups (CKGs) are used to classify cell types without references•CKGs competitive gene expression features for type classification•CKGs associated with genes sharing specific k-mers Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become a revolutionary technology characterize cells under different biological conditions. Unlike bulk RNA-seq, from scRNA-seq is highly sparse due limit...

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Background: Few studies have reported the magnitude of intestinal parasitic infections among under-five children in tropical countries. Moreover, there is little information on maternal awareness about intestinal parasitosis. Objective: To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis among under-five children, and assess maternal awareness about it in Shesha Kebkele, Wondo Genet, Southern...