In 1968, Matyas and Radhakrishna introduced the concept of state surface, demonstrating that unsaturated soil volume change is dependent on two independent stress variables, net total suction. For decades basic theory soils has been known, a holistic view elastoplastic response soils, based modified surface approach (MSSA), makes it clear method accounting for roles suction required to quantify...

BACKGROUND/AIM Prolactin (PRL), a hormone produced by the pituitary gland, has multiple physiological functions, including immunoregulation. PRL can also be secreted in response to stressful stimuli. During stress, PRL has been suggested to oppose the immunosuppressive effects of inflammatory mediators. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the effects of short- and long-term h...

We explored how experimentally induced psychological stress affects the production and recognition of vocal emotions. In Study 1a, we demonstrate that sentences spoken by stressed speakers are judged by naïve listeners as sounding more stressed than sentences uttered by non-stressed speakers. In Study 1b, negative emotions produced by stressed speakers are generally less well recognized than th...

Abstract Aggregation and thermally induced photo-physics of a low band gap thiophene-quinoxaline copolymer (TQ1) was investigated. The S0 ? S1 transition TQ1 in solution is found to be due an intra-molecular charge transfer state while the excited aggregated chains intra inter-chain excitons. On other hand, emission TQ-1 recorded at 85 °C for more than 300 h confirmed that thermal stress hamper...

microdialysis was used to measure the effect of benzodiazepines (bdzs) on basal levels and on stress-induced increases of 5 -hydroxytryptamine (5 -ht), 5 - hydroxyind oleacetic acid (5 -hiaa) , noradrenaline (na), and dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (dop ac). the stressors used were a 5 min tail pinch or a 10 min period of restraint. a subcutaneous injection of 5 mg/kg diazepam decreased basal level...

Drought stress is a major limiting factor for crop production. Cuticular wax plays an important role in preventing water loss from drought stress. However, the genetic control of cuticular wax deposition under drought stress conditions has not been characterized. Here, we identified a rice gene Drought-Induced Wax Accumulation 1 (DWA1) encoding a very large protein (2,391 aa in length) containi...

Objective(s): Intracerebroventricular injection of orexin-A (hypocretin-1) antagonist has been shown to inhibit stress-induced analgesia. However the locations of central sites that may mediate these effects have not been totally demonstrated. This study was performed to investigate the role of rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) orexin receptor 1 in stress-induced analgesia (SIA). Materials and...