Identification of new sources of salt tolerance is particularly important to develop crop varieties suitable for saline soils. We evaluated 129 Pakistani and 58 exotic wheat landraces/cultivars grown in Hoagland's hydroponic nutrient solution, under control (tap water equivalent to 10 mM salt) and salt stress (200 mM NaCl) conditions. Forty-four genotypes were also tested under 250 mM NaCl...

OBJECTIVE MiR-183 acts as an oncomiR and is usually upregulated in hepatocellular cancer (HCC). This study aims to study the association between miR-183 dysregulation and multi-drug resistance (MDR). Also, how it is dysregulated in HCC cells was investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS The association between miR-183 and HIF-1α in HCC cell line BEL-7402 and the multidrug-resistant variant BEL-7402...

This paper presents a general methodology for the efficient parallelization of existing data cube construction algorithms. We describe two different partitioning strategies, one for top-down and one for bottomup cube algorithms. Both partitioning strategies assign subcubes to individual processors in such a way that the loads assigned to the processors are balanced. Our methods reduce inter pro...

Abstract Background Many older people throughout their lives will require nursing care, consequentially most nurses care for during career. It is important that and student are provided with shared learning opportunities so professional caring partnerships can be nurtured realised mutual benefit. Intergenerational projects offer intergenerational learning. However, few explore nurse-older perso...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the potential role of microRNA-183-5p (miR-183-5p) in the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of pancreatic cancer, and to identify promising target genes of oncogenic miR-183-5p. Western blotting and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were used to investigate whether these oncogenic microRNAs may be useful as biomarkers in pancreati...

1. Drawing balls without replacement (20 pts). Suppose that we have an urn containing one red ball and n − 1 white balls. Each time we draw a ball at random from the urn without replacement (so after the n-th drawing, there is no ball left in the urn). X i = 1 if the i-th ball is red, 0 otherwise.

As a highly aggressive malignant disease, the prognosis of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is poor. Yet, the mechanisms underlying the progression of PDAC remain unclear. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) may be involved in various human cancers as cancer suppressors or oncogenes. MicroRNA-183 (miR-183) was recently reported to be dysregulated in various types of cancer and to play an im...