australian grapevine viroid (agvd), an apscaviroid of the family pospiviroidae, was recently identified in vineyards of southern iran. it had a relatively wide host range and caused stunting, leaf deformation, mottling and vein clearing in experimental hosts upon mechanical inoculation of nucleic acid extracts or agroinfiltration of the viroid infectious cloned dna. predicted secondary structur...

This article explores a series of rent-seeking behaviors and fiduciary deficits that are playing role in the “growth” demise U.S. companies. Start-up financing occurs through exemptions remove disclosure obligations required public markets, assuming private ordering suffices. The exemptive-privilege premise is parties to rounds will be faithful agents, i.e., fiduciaries, their sources capital. ...

The inhibitory deficit hypothesis of cognitive aging posits that older adults' inability to adequately suppress processing of irrelevant information is a major source of cognitive decline. Prior research has demonstrated that in response to task-irrelevant auditory stimuli there is an age-associated increase in the amplitude of the N1 wave, an ERP marker of early perceptual processing. Here, we...