PURPOSE Once implanted, prostate brachytherapy seeds are vulnerable to loss and movement. A general estimation of these effects may be useful for making patient care decisions when seeds are lost after the post-implant scan. The goal of this work was to explore the dosimetric and radiobiological effects of the types of seed loss and migration common in prostate brachytherapy. METHODS This stu...

Plants offer excellent models to investigate how gene flow shapes the organization of genetic diversity. Their three genomes can have different modes of transmission and will hence experience varying levels of gene flow. We have compiled studies of genetic structure based on chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear markers in seed plants. Based on a data set of 183 species...

The large-scale use of neonicotinoid insecticides has raised growing concerns about their potential adverse effects on farmland birds, and more generally on biodiversity. Imidacloprid, the first neonicotinoid commercialized, has been identified as posing a risk for seed-eating birds when it is used as seed treatment of some crops since the consumption of a few dressed seeds could cause mortalit...

The paper concerns three tests for multivariate normality based on the Shapiro-Wilk W statistic for the principal components of a covariance matrix. Two of them were proposed by Srivastava and Hui (1987), the third was introduced by Hanusz and Tarasińska (2008b). The type I errors of these tests at significance levels 0.1, 0.05 and 0.01 are evaluated both for the sample and residuals in the two...

Aaltonen, LA 1875 Aarntzen, EA 1415 Aarts, MJ 1742 Abad, A 581 Abaid, LN 1657 Abajo, A 1529 Abdah-Bortnyak, R 542 Abecassis, J 715 Absolom, K 1485 Abulrob, A 1606 Abuzeid, WM 1822 Acquavella, J 947 Adair, JE 1182 Adamson, DJA 475 Adema, GJ 1415 Adenis, A 1349 Adonis, M 1277 Aerts, JGJV 629 A’Hern, R 291 Ahlbom, A 1128 Ahn, JS 845 Ahn, YC 845 Aitken, JF 1663 Al-Batran, S-E 1518 Albaghdadi, H 160...

Concerns related to the rise of disposition to the application of the medicinal plants throughout the world have gone up on their cultivation and production processes. In order to study the effect of planting seasons on morphological traits, yield, oil content and oil composition of black cumin, an experiment was conducted under field condition in Mashhad, Iran in 2012-2013 as a randomized comp...