rapd markers were employed to determine the diversity among 29 genotypes and cultivars of sour and duke cherry as well as a mahaleb tree genotype as an outgroup. a number of 100 random primers were examined for pcr reactions on the template dnas extracted from leaves, of which 17 primers produced polymorphic bands. these 17 selected rapd primers produced 233 bands, among which, 214 were polymor...

An “across-the-fence” steam-methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant integrated with gas-turbine technology was started up within the past three years at the Premcor refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. This plant, owned and operated by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is one of only a handful of SMRs containing an integrated gas turbine. The facility design typifies a growing trend among refiners to...

BACKGROUND Oropharyngeal dysphagia is common in individuals after stroke. Taste and temperature are used in dysphagia rehabilitation. The influence of stimuli, such as taste and temperature, on swallowing biomechanics has been investigated in both healthy individuals and in individuals with neurological disease. However, some questions still remain unanswered, such as how the sequence of offere...

I review radiatively inefficient accretion flow models for the≈ 2.6×106M black hole (BH) in the Galactic Center. I argue for a ’concordance model’ of Sgr A*: both theory and observations suggest that hot ambient gas around the BH is accreted at a rate ∼ 10−8M yr−1, much less than the canonical Bondi rate. I interpret Chandra observations of Sgr A* in the context of such a model: (1) the extende...

Flare occurrence is statistically associated with changes in several characteristics of the line-of-sight magnetic field in solar active regions (AR). We calculated magnetic measures throughout the disk passage of 1,075 ARs spanning solar cycle 23 in an attempt to find a statistical relationship between the solar magnetic field and solar flares. This expansive study of over 71,000 magnetograms ...

BACKGROUND Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) flares occur frequently during peginterferon (PEG-IFN) therapy. We related occurrence of flares to presence of precore (PC) and/or basal core promoter (BCP) mutants and studied kinetics of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels during flares. METHODS Fifty of 214 (23%) patients treated with PEG-IFN ± lamivudine fo...

Re ursive predi ates frequently generate some state whi h is updated after the re ursive all. We present a sour e to sour e transformation whi h an move the state update before to the re ursive all, thus helping to make the predi ate tail re ursive, and report on its implementation in the Merury ompiler.