Hoagland solution was used to determine the root morphology properties of Rorippa globosa (Turcz.) Thell. and Rorippa palustris (Leyss.) Bess. Under the conditions of Cd spiked at 2.5 and 5 mg kg(-1), R. globosa showed all hyperaccumulative characteristics and was a Cd-hyperaccumulator. In contrast, R. palustris was a non-hyperaccumulator. The total root lengths, total root surface areas and to...

In this paper we generalize the cd -index of the cubical lattice to an r cd -index , which we denote by Õ ( r ) . The coef ficients of Õ ( r ) enumerate augmented Andre ́ r -signed permutations , a generalization of Purtill’s work relating the cd -index of the cubical lattice and signed Andre ́ permutations . As an application we use the r cd -index to determine that the extremal configuration wh...

CD spectra and difference-CD spectra of (a) two DNA X RNA hybrid duplexes (poly[r(A) X d(U)] and poly[r(A) X d(T)]) and (b) three hybrid triplexes (poly-[d(T) X r(A) X d(T)], poly[r(U) X d(A) X r(U)], and poly[r(T) X d(A) X r(T)]) were obtained and compared with CD spectra of six A X U- and A X T-containing duplex and triplex RNAs and DNAs. We found that the CD spectra of the homopolymer duplex...

Exposing native calf thymus DNA (in 0.1 M NaClO4, 5 mM cacodylic acid buffer, pH 6.81, 25 degrees C) to increasing concentrations of Hg(ClO4)2 produces dramatic changes in its circular dichroism (CD). Let r = [mol of added Hg(II)*/[mol DNA base]: the conservative CD spectrum of the DNA B-form, consisting of the 273 nm major (+) CD band, the 245 nm major (-) CD band, the 219 nm minor (+) CD band...

This paper proposes a new object-based approach to similar image retrieval. First the salient regions of an image are detected by using a novel segmentation method based on a multi-scale inhomogeneous diffusion model applied to color and texture features. Each detected region is then represented by a feature vector composed from the characteristic color, texture and shape features of a region w...

Extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) cause increased morbidity and decreased quality of life in Crohn disease (CD). Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) belongs to EIMs. Very little is known on the clinical features of CD concomitant with AS. This study is to investigate the clinical features of CD patients with AS.We retrospectively collected all CD patients with AS in our hospital, and established a ...