multi-environment trials play a significant role in selecting the best cultivars to be used at different locations. the objective of this study was to identify grain and forage yields stability of grass pea advanced lines across different locations. the 14 advanced lines of grass pea, developed by the international center for agricultural research in dry areas (icarda), were tested at three dif...

6 Maria del Pilar Crespo 1† , Thomas D. Avery 2# , Eric Hanssen 1,3 , Emma Fox 1 , Tony V. Robinson 2 , 7 Peter Valente 2 , Dennis K. Taylor 2 and Leann Tilley 1,3* 8 9 Department of Biochemistry 1 , and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science 3 , La 10 Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia, Department of Chemistry, Adelaide 11 University, South Australia, 5005, Aus...

BACKGROUND Hereditary ataxias with similar phenotypes were reported in the Smooth-Haired Fox Terrier, the Jack Russell Terrier and the Parson Russell Terrier. However, segregation analyses showed differing inheritance modes in these breeds. Recently, molecular genetic studies on the Russell group of terriers found independent mutations in KCNJ10 and CAPN1, each associated with a specific clinic...

Fox-1 is a regulator of tissue-specific splicing, via binding to the element (U)GCAUG in mRNA precursors, in muscles and neuronal cells. Fox-1 can regulate splicing positively or negatively, most likely depending on where it binds relative to the regulated exon. In cases where the (U)GCAUG element lies in an intron upstream of the alternative exon, Fox-1 protein functions as a splicing represso...

The most important farmed fur animal species in Finland are the American mink (Mustela vison), blue fox (Alopex lagopus), silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) and raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides); all are susceptible to canine distemper. The only distemper vaccines currently available are for mink, although they also have been used for fox and raccoon dogs in emergency situations. The efficacy in e...

English-speaking children are known to be delayed in their comprehension of passive sentences (Slobin, 1966; Turner & Rommetveit, 1967; Bever, 1970; Maratsos & Ambramovitch, 1975; Maratsos, Fox, Becker, & Chalkley, 1985; Gordon & Chafetz, 1990; Fox & Grodzinsky, 1998; Hirsch & Wexler, 2004a). Additionally, it has been noted that children’s level of passive comprehension is in part determined by...

Apex predators are subject to lethal control in many parts of the world to minimize their impacts on human industries and livelihoods. Diverse communities of smaller predators-mesopredators-often remain after apex predator removal. Despite concern that these mesopredators may be 'released' in the absence of the apex predator and exert negative effects on each other and on co-occurring prey, the...

Introduction The last few years have seen a lot of significant improvements in AI planning. One of the most well-known advances is the Graphplan approach (Blum & Furst 1997), which has been the basis of many planners, such as GP-CSP (Do & Kambhampati 2001a), TGP (Smith & Weld 1999), TPSYS (Garrido, Fox, & Long 2002), STAN (Fox & Long 2001), LPGP (Fox & Long 2002)... In TGP and TPSYS, it has bee...