The effect of root-released compounds of transplastomic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) on the soil bacterial community structure, and their potential to support horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to bacteria have been studied. Soil microcosms were exposed to root-released compounds collected from transplastomic and non-transgenic tobacco cultivars. Cluster analysis of automated ribosomal intergenic sp...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the mesiobuccal root of maxillary first molars, according to the root canal configuration, prevalence and location of isthmuses at 3 and 6 mm from the apex, comparing cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) analysis and cross sectioning of roots by thirds. Images of the mesiobuccal root of 100 maxillary first molars were acquired by CBCT and then roots were cr...

In this paper we consider the problem of constructing measurements optimized to distinguish between a collection of possibly non-orthogonal quantum states. We consider a collection of pure states and seek a positive operator-valued measure (POVM) consisting of rank-one operators with measurement vectors closest in squared norm to the given states. We compare our results to previous measurements...

21 Gossypol plays an important role in defense mechanism of Gossypium species and the 22 presence of gossypol also limits the utilization of cottonseeds. However, little is 23 known about the metabolism of gossypol in cotton plant. Here, Detection on the 24 dynamic tendency of gossypol content illustrated that at the germination stage, the 25 main source of gossypol was cotyledon, and at the la...

Alterations in the balance of the osteoblastic-osteoclastic activity (osteopetrosis, osteolysis) have an impact on the dental development. The over activation of the osteoclastogenesis pathway RANK/RANKL/OPG in RANK mice produces an acceleration of tooth eruption and root elongation, suggesting this pathway could control the speed of tooth formation. Evaluate the effect of osteoclastic hyperact...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to determine the root canal morphology of permanent mandibular incisor teeth in the Indian subpopulation with the use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). MATERIAL/METHODS CBCT images of 200 patients with 800 permanent mandibular incisors, fulfilling necessary inclusion criteria and aged 18 to 60 years were evaluated. The number of roots, number of root...

most of the contour detection methods suffers from some drawbacks such as noise, occlusion of objects, shifting, scaling and rotation of objects in image which they suppress the recognition accuracy. to solve the problem, this paper utilizes zernike moment (zm) and pseudo zernike moment (pzm) to extract object contour features in all situations such as rotation, scaling and shifting of object i...