Metabolic enzymes have been found to play roles in plant development. Sucrose synthase (SUS) is one of the two enzyme families involved in sucrose cleavage in plants. In tomato, six SUS genes have been found. We generated transgenic tomato plants with RNAi suppression of SlSUS1, SlSUS3 and SlSUS4 genes. Independent transgenic lines with RNAi suppression of more than one SUS gene exhibited morph...

OBJECTIVE to identify the perceptions of professionals working in a facility connected with the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS in regard to what they know, think and talk about public health policy. METHOD this exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative nature was conducted with 28 professionals working in a facility connected with the SUS. Data were collected through interviews ...

Since its introduction in 1986, the 10-item System Usability Scale (SUS) has been assumed to be unidimensional. Factor analysis of two independent SUS data sets reveals that the SUS actually has two factors – Usability (8 items) and Learnability (2 items). These new scales have reasonable reliability (coefficient alpha of .91 and .70, respectively). They correlate highly with the overall SUS (r...

In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous-prioritized spectrum sharing policy for coordinated dynamic spectrum access networks, where a centralized spectrum manager coordinates the access of primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) to the spectrum. Through modeling the access of PUs and multiple classes of SUs as continuous-time Markov chains, we analyze the overall system performance with...

The resistance of fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, has been characterized to some Cry and Vip3A proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) expressed in transgenic maize in Brazil. Here we evaluated the effective dominance of resistance based on the survival of neonates from selected Bt-resistant, heterozygous, and susceptible (Sus) strains of FAW on different Bt maize and cotton varieti...

The content and activity of Suc (Suc) synthase (SUS) protein is high in sink organs but low in source organs. In this report, we examined light and metabolic signals regulating SUS protein degradation in maize (Zea mays) leaves during deetiolation. We found that SUS protein accumulated in etiolated leaves of the dark-grown seedlings but was rapidly degraded upon exposure to white, blue, or red ...

Olivier Cassar, Sylviane Bassot, Sabine Plancoulaine, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Christine Harmant, Vladimir Gurtsevitch, Natalia B. Senyuta, Larissa S. Yakovleva, Guy de Thé, and Antoine Gessain Author affi liations: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (O. Cassar, S. Bassot, S. Plancoulaine, L. Quintana-Murci, G. de Thé, C. Harmant, A. Gessain); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale...

Recently, a new paradigm for cognitive radio networks has been advocated, where primary users (PUs) recruit the secondary users (SUs) to cooperatively relay the primary traffic, and in return grant the SUs the right to access the channel. However, all existing work on such cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRNs) operate in the temporal domain only, which limits the performance of both PUs ...

BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery is an option for sustained weight loss for the morbidly obese patient. In Brazil coexists the Unified Health System (SUS) with universal coverage and from which depend 150 million Brazilians and supplemental health security, predominantly private, with 50 million beneficiaries. AIM To compare access, in-hospital mortality, length of stay and costs for patients und...

BACKGROUND A core objective of the Society of University Surgeons (SUS) is research focused: to "advance the art and science of surgery through original investigation." This study sought to determine the current impact of the SUS on academic surgical productivity. METHODS Individual faculty data for numbers of publications, citations, and National Institute of Health (NIH) funding history wer...