In order to evaluate the impact of physical and chemical properties of soil on Bekras kind wheat yield in the city of Arak, a completely randomized block experimental plan has been implemented with three replications in the1390 crop year. Treatments include the overall condition and qualifications of wheat field 's soil in 18 wheat farms, which were randomly selected. Traits in this experiment ...

Perovskites form a class of promising materials for the development of multifunctional devices but require reliable strategies for forming electrical contacts without compromising functionality. We explore the interactions of a range of metal contacts with ferromagnetic oxide La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) and discuss their impact on the magnetic, structural, and chemical properties of the oxide. Althou...

Nanoporous metals (NPMs) have proven to be all-round candidates in versatile and diverse applications. In this decade, interest has grown in the fabrication, characterization and applications of these intriguing materials. Most existing reviews focus on the experimental and theoretical works rather than the numerical simulation. Actually, with numerous experiments and theory analysis, studies b...

Geological structures are by nature inaccessible to direct observation. This can cause difficulties in applications where a spatially explicit representation of such structures is required, in particular when modelling fluid migration in geological formations. An increasing trend in recent years has been to use analogs to palliate this lack of knowledge, i.e., exploiting the spatial information...

This paper gives a short summary of the central role played by Ed Brown’s “twisting cochains” in higher FranzReidemeister (FR) torsion and higher analytic torsion. Briefly, any fiber bundle gives a twisting cochain which is unique up to fiberwise homotopy equivalence. However, when they are based, the difference between two of them is a higher algebraic K-theory class measured by higher FR tors...

Protein folding is recognized as a critical problem in the field of biophysics in the 21st century. Predicting protein-folding patterns is challenging due to the complex structure of proteins. In an attempt to solve this problem, we employed ensemble classifiers to improve prediction accuracy. In our experiments, 188-dimensional features were extracted based on the composition and physical...

Five novel metabolites, trichodenones A-C (1-3), harzialactone A (4) and B (5), have been isolated together with known R-mevalonolactone (6) from the culture broth of a strain of Trichoderma harzianum OUPS-N115 originally separated from the sponge Halichondria okadai. Their structures have been elucidated by spectral evidence. Among them, 1-3 exhibited significant cytotoxicity against cultured ...

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With more than ten new FDA approvals since 2001, peptides are emerging as an important therapeutic alternative to small molecules. However, unlike small molecules, peptides on the market today are limited to extracellular targets. By contrast, cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) can target intracellular proteins and also carry other cargoes (e.g. other peptides, small molecules or proteins) into t...

In this study, we attempt to understand and explain positional selection pressure in terms of underlying physical and chemical properties. We propose a set of constraining assumptions about how these pressures behave, then describe a procedure for analysing and explaining the distribution of residues at a particular position in a multiple sequence alignment. In contrast to previous approaches, ...