charcoal rot caused by macrophomina phaseolina is an injurious and economically important disease which causes heavy loss of yield to field and horticultural crops. thirty-three isolates of m. phaseolina were obtained from different host plants such as: soybean (glycine max.), melo (cucumis melo), bean (phaseolus vulgaris), pea (pisum sativum), pinus (pinus sp), blak-eyed susan (rudbeckia fulgi...

3 4 CONTENTS Preface Cryptology, as the scientific study of secure communications, began in World War II. Ever since the foundational work by Shannon [50], and especially after the introduction of public key cryptography in the seventies [21, 46], applications to cryptology have appeared from an increasing number of areas in mathematics. Combinatorics is one of them. For instance, the difficult...

Introduction: Clinical trials of acalabrutinib, a second-generation Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, show high response rates and an acceptable safety profile in patients with CLL. However, there is lack real-world data on the use acalabrutinib first-line treatment This interim analysis (IA) presents baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, patterns CLL up to 24 months post-initiatio...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)based approaches are becoming increasingly important for the identification of members of extended multigene families as well as homologous gene structures present in phylogenetically divergent species (2,5,10,11). Many of these approaches rely on the use of highly degenerate primers and/or reduced priming stringencies that can generate a broad range of products, ...

There exist different kind of techniques to remove unwanted signals from images. The major denoising methods include filtering technique which is under the category of neighbourhood methods.The drawback of neighbourhood method is that tend to lose fine details of the image so that blurring may occur.Noise reduction and preservation of actual image can be done efficiently if we extend the consid...

In this paper, the design and development of the Delphi Driver Protection Module (DDPM) using a systems and virtual engineering approach is presented. LS-DYNA software tool was used in virtual prototype studies. The DDPM consists of driver side energy absorbing components. The components included in this module are 1) an adaptive Energy Absorbing (EA) steering column, 2) driver air bag, 3) stee...

Unique DNA sequences can be determined directly from mouse genomic DNA. A denaturing gel separates by size mixtures of unlabeled DNA fragments from complete restriction and partial chemical cleavages of the entire genome. These lanes of DNA are transferred and UV-crosslinked to nylon membranes. Hybridization with a short 32P-labeled singlestranded probe produces the image of a DNA sequence "lad...

Nascent Polypeptide-associated Complex (NAC) was identified in eukaryotes as the first cytosolic factor which contacts the nascent polypeptide chain emerging from the ribosome. NAC is present as a homodimer in Archaea and as a highly conserved heterodimer in eukaryotes. Mutations in NAC cause severe embryonically lethal phenotypes in mice, D. melanogaster and C. elegans. In the yeast Saccharomy...

This study examined the utility of the diagnosis of pedophilia in a sample of extra-familial child molesters assessed at a university teaching hospital between 1983 and 1995. Pedophilia was defined in one of four ways: 1) A DSM diagnosis made by a psychiatrist 2) A deviant phallometric profile 3) A DSM diagnosis and a deviant phallometric profile, and 4) high scores based on the Screening Scale...