The association of the Type A behavior pattern with change in blood pressure was examined in a multiethnic sample of schoolchildren. Blood pressure was assessed in 1978 (mean age = 8 years) and approximately biannually thereafter through 1987-1990, when a post-high school screening was completed. The Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) was completed by the teachers of a sample of participants...

The phytohormones jasmonates (JAs) constitute an important class of elicitors for many plant secondary metabolic pathways. However, JAs do not act independently but operate in complex networks with crosstalk to several other phytohormonal signaling pathways. Here, crosstalk was detected between the JA and abscisic acid (ABA) signaling pathways in the regulation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) al...

BACKGROUND Data from Western comparative trials suggest that rosuvastatin is more effective than atorvastatin, simvastatin, and pravastatin in helping hypercholesterolemic patients achieve US and European lipid-lowering guidelines. The purpose of this analysis was to assess the comparative efficacy of rosuvastatin in reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) to levels recommended by ...

Journal of Agricultural Studies (JAS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review manuscripts this issue. Many authors, regardless whether JAS publishes work, appreciate helpful feedback provided by reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were great help authors in improving quality papers. Each listed below returned at least one Reviewers Volume 11...

In 2002, Chien–Jan–Tseng introduced an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. Further, in 2004, W. C. Ku and S. M. Chen proposed an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards to solve the security problems of Chien et al.’s scheme. Recently, Hsu and Yoon et al. pointed out the security weakness of the Ku and Chen’s scheme Furthermore, Yoon et al. modif...

W.-B. Lee and C.-C. Chang (1998) proposed a very efficient group signature scheme based on the discrete logarithm problem. This scheme was subsequently improved by Y.-M. Tseng and J.-K. Jan (1999) so that the resulting group signatures are unlinkable. In this paper, we show that any obvious attempt to make unlinkable the Lee-Chang signatures would likely fail. More importantly, we show that bot...

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) is emerging as one of the energy plants considered for biofuel production. Alkali and alkali-involved pretreatment methods have been widely used bioconversion cellulosic materials due to their high sugar yield low inhibitor release. However, recovery treatment wastewater (black liquor) poorly studied. Here, we present a novel two-stage process desig...

This paper is a response to the article “Critical View to” the IGEX neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment...“published in Phys. Rev. D, Volume 65 (2002) 092007,” by H. V. KlapdorKleingrothaus, A. Dietz, and I. V. Krivosheina. The criticisms are confronted, and the questions raised are answered. We demonstrate that the lower limit quoted by IGEX, T 0ν 1/2( Ge) ≥ 1.57×10 y, is correct and tha...

In this article, we present general properties of xed-point groups of the automorphisms of nite groups. Speci cally, we determine the form of xed-point groups and partition Aut(G) according to the number of xed points possessed by each automorphism. A function θ records the size of each partitioning set; we nd properties for θ in general and develop formulae for θ with respect to certain classe...

It’s very important to manage plasma lipids according to evidence derived from intervention studies, guidelines that have been established based on evidence, or a consensus among specialists in related fields of clinical science. According to the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases, the target levels of treatment ...