Recent evidence from leaves and stems indicates that gradients in water potential (psi(w)) necessary for water movement through growing tissues are larger than previously assumed. Because growth is sensitive to tissue psi(w) and the behavior of these gradients has not been investigated in transpiring plants, we examined the water status of all the growing and mature vegetative tissues of maize ...

Photosystems (PS) I and II activities depend on their light-harvesting capacity and trapping efficiency, which vary in different environmental conditions. For optimal functioning, these activities need to be balanced. This is achieved by redistribution of excitation energy between the two photosystems via the association and disassociation of light-harvesting complexes (LHC) II, in a process kn...

From e(+)e(-) collision data acquired with the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we observe the non-DD(_) decay Psi(3770))-->gammachi(c1) with a statistical significance of 6.6 standard deviations, using the two-photon cascades to J/Psi and J/Psi-->l(+)l(-). We determine sigma(e(=)e(-)-->Psi(3770))xBeta(Psi(3770)-->gammachi(c1))=(18.0 +/- 3.3 +/- 2.5) pb and branching fraction...

In this paper, we study the Hyers-Ulam stability with respect to linear differential condition of fourth order. Specifically, treat ${\psi}$ as an interact arrangement condition, i.e., $ \begin{align*} {\psi}^{iv} ({\varkappa}) + {\xi}_1 {\psi}{'''} ({\varkappa})+ {\xi}_2 {\psi}{''} {\xi}_3 {\psi}' {\xi}_4 {\psi}({\varkappa}) = {\Psi}({\varkappa}) \end{align*} $ where ${\psi} \in c^...

the aim of this paper is to study the behaviour of certain sequence of nonlinear durrmeyer operators $nd_{n}f$ of the form $$(nd_{n}f)(x)=intlimits_{0}^{1}k_{n}left( x,t,fleft( tright) right) dt,,,0leq xleq 1,,,,,,nin mathbb{n}, $$ acting on bounded functions on an interval $left[ 0,1right] ,$ where $% k_{n}left( x,t,uright) $ satisfies some suitable assumptions. here we estimate the rate...

The initiation of radicle growth during seed germination may be driven by solute accumulation and increased turgor pressure, by cell wall relaxation, or by weakening of tissues surrounding the embryo. To investigate these possibilities, imbibition kinetics, water contents, and water (Psi) and solute (psi(s)) potentials of intact muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) seeds, decoated seeds (testa removed, ...

Epigenetically inherited aggregates of the yeast prion [PSI+] cause genomewide readthrough translation that sometimes increases evolvability in certain harsh environments. The effects of natural selection on modifiers of [PSI+] appearance have been the subject of much debate. It seems likely that [PSI+] would be at least mildly deleterious in most environments, but this may be counteracted by i...

Assembly of retrovirus particles normally entails the selective encapsidation of viral genomic RNA. However, in the absence of packageable viral RNA, assembly is still efficient, and the released virus-like particles (termed "Psi-" particles) still contain roughly normal amounts of RNA. We have proposed that cellular mRNAs replace the genome in Psi- particles. We have now analyzed the mRNA cont...

BACKGROUND Due to the lacking specificity of symptoms making a correct diagnosis can be a challenge in children with medulloblastoma. This can lead to prediagnostic symptomatic intervals (PSIs) of several weeks to months. It is unknown whether the length of the PSI is associated with an inferior survival outcome in this population. METHODS To study the association of PSI with disease stage at...