Hydrophilins are a wide group of proteins whose defining characteristics are high hydrophilicity index (> 1.0) and high glycine content (> 6%). The transcripts of most hydrophilins accumulate in response to water deficit in organisms such as plants, fungi and bacteria. In plants, most of the known Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins belong to this group (Garay-Arroyo et al., Journal of B...

BACKGROUND Vitamin A supplementation is one of the best-proven and most costeffective interventions to improve vitamin A status and save children's lives. OBJECTIVE To assess factors affecting practices and utilisation of Vitamin A supplementation services among mothers with children below five years attending Mbagathi District Hospital. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING M...

This study examines the preparation of several composites that are based on natural magnesium hydroxide (n-MDH) and various poly(ethylene-co-octene) polyolefin elastomers (POEs). Design experiment (DoE) principles have been applied in order to optimize mechanical, rheological, flame-retardant properties final composites. DoE allows one evaluate influence each variable an experiment’s properties...

We propose the motion direction histogram (MDH) as a new feature for abrupt shot boundary detection in video sequences. Conventional methods for abrupt shot boundary detection use a threshold difference as a measure of the feature values between consecutive images. It is difficult for such conventional methods t o detect shot boundaries in "busy" scenes, in which intensities change substantiall...

Using multiple linear of multilinear map, we propose a simple, non-interactive and effective publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) scheme based on multilinear DiffieHellman assumption (MDH). Up to now, the publicly verifiable of secret sharing is still an issue. In this paper, we set the sharing secret is a multiple linear pairing, we apply the multiple linear property of multilinear map fo...

INTRODUCTION This report summarizes the results of a screening evaluation of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in fertilizer products. This evaluation was conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), at the request of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), to evaluate potential health risks from fertilizer products sold in Minnesota (MDA 1998a; MDH 1998a). This report includes: (i) t...

For the first time, an analysis was carried out of allozyme variability in trout (Salmo trutta) from three rivers of Iran. We studied 23 gene loci coding enzymes: glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AAT), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), malic enzyme [NADP-dependent MDH] (MEP), superoxide dismutase (SOD), esterase...

Malate dehydrogenases (MDH, L-malate:NAD oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.37), catalyze the NAD/NADH-dependent interconversion of the substrates malate and oxaloacetate. This reaction plays a key part in the malate/aspartate shuttle across the mitochondrial membrane, and in the tricarboxylic acid cycle within the mitochondrial matrix. They are homodimeric molecules in most organisms, including all euka...

Three relatively isolated stands and 9 allozyme loci (Got-B, Idh-A, Lap-A, Mdh-B, Mdh-C, Mnr-A, 6-Pgdh-A, Pgi-B and Pgm-A) were used to study the mating system in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Multilocus outcrossing rates for the three stands were high (t,, = 1.015-1.025), but did not differ significantly from 1. According to paternity analysis, the maximum selfing rates ranged from 5.6 ...