Micro-propagation of olive provides the possibility of producing clones of native plants with appropriate attributes and mass reproduction in short period of time, compared to conventional methods. Apical dominance in olive explants limits the growth of lateral branches in vitro. The effect of Woody Plant Medium (WPM), Olive Medium (OM) and Murashig and Skoog (MS) with carbohydrate source (mann...

The face inversion effect is regarded as a hallmark of face-specific processing, and can be observed in a large variety of visual tasks. Face inversion effects are also reported in binocular rivalry. However, it is unclear whether these effects are face-specific, and distinct from the general tendency of visual awareness to privilege upright objects. We studied continuous rivalry across more th...

The presence and intensity of red coloration correlate with male dominance and testosterone in a variety of animal species, and even artificial red stimuli can influence dominance interactions. In humans, red stimuli are perceived as more threatening and dominant than other colours, and wearing red increases the probability of winning sporting contests. We investigated whether red clothing bias...

Stochastic dominance theory provides tools to compare random entities. When comparing random vectors (say X and Y ), the problem can be viewed as one of multi-criterion decision making under uncertainty. One approach is to compare weighted sums of the components of these random vectors using univariate dominance. In this paper we propose new concepts of stochastically weighted dominance. The ma...

Background and Objectives: Ocular dominance refers to the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other and is found in majority of the individuals. The role of eye dominance as one of the confounding physiologic variables affecting the PRVEP (pattern reversal visual evoked potential) responses needs to be evaluated. Hence, the present study was planned to assess the influence of ey...

Paternity insurance and dominance tenure length are two important components of male reproductive success, particularly in species where reproduction is highly skewed towards a few individuals. Identifying the factors affecting these two components is crucial to better understand the pattern of variation in reproductive success among males. In social species, the social context (i.e. group size...

22 Data from several thousand knock-out mutations in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) 23 were used to estimate the distribution of dominance coefficients. We propose a new 24 unbiased likelihood approach to measuring dominance coefficients. On average, 25 deleterious mutations are partially recessive, with a mean dominance coefficient 26 approximately 0.2. Alleles with large homozygous effects ...

The economic, social and personal burden of common neurological disorders has been the subject of intense study all over the world. Nerve conduction velocity being affected by factors like age, gender and temperature is a well known fact. The effect of handedness on nerve conduction is not known much and needs further evaluation. In the present study 50 medical students divided into 2 groups of...