Deterioration of seeds is an important problem leading to low germination and uneven crop establishment causing poor growth productivity. Soil salinity another factor limiting cultivation. Spermidine (Spd) a compound widely reported for diminishing adverse effects salt stress in plants. In this study, the Spd priming on normal deteriorated rice were investigated under during young seedling stag...

Gonadotropin-primed immature rats (GPIR) constitute a widely used model for the study of ovulation. Although the equivalence between the ovulatory process in immature and adult rats is generally assumed, the morphological and functional characteristics of ovulation in immature rats have been scarcely considered. We describe herein the morphological aspects of the ovulatory process in GPIR and t...

REQUIRED) This paper examines the application of risk management strategies to the protection of customer information privacy at the corporate level of analysis. The emerging discipline of privacy risk management is virtually non-existent in academic discourse despite an expressed and growing interest by regulators and practitioners. We show how the concept and practices of operational risk man...

The current study examined the safety and immunogenicity of 23-valent pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide vaccine (Pneumo23(®) [PPV23], Sanofi Pasteur) as a booster dose in 12- to 18-month-old children primed with heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7; Prevnar(®), Pfizer). This was a randomized, observer-blinded, 2-arm, controlled, multicenter phase III study performed in Thailand to assess a...

Abstract Plants memorize events associated with environmental fluctuations. The integration of signals into molecular memory allows plants to cope future stressors more efficiently—a phenomenon that is known as ‘priming’. Primed are resilient stresses than non-primed plants, they capable triggering robust and faster defence responses. Interestingly, exposure various forms mechanical stimuli (e....