in this study the effects of plant growth regulators including; ga3 (0 and 50 mg/l) and ethephon (0 and 500 mg/l) were studied on the quality properties of two grape cultivars (perlette and yaghuti). at the harvest time, some physicochemical characteristics such as fruit cluster weight, fruit diameter, length, volume and l/d ratio, flesh firmness, fresh weight, ta, ph, tss and fruit color were ...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between eating behavior constructs and weight loss (WL) in a 6-month WL intervention in worksites. DESIGN AND METHODS A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a group behavioral WL intervention versus wait-listed control was conducted at four worksites. Measures included body weight and the eating behavior constructs restraint, disinhibition, hunger, and thei...

We report the discovery of non-thermal pulsed X-ray/soft γ-ray emission up to ∼ 150 keV from the anomalous X-ray pulsar AXP 1E 1841-045 located near the centre of supernova remnant Kes 73 using RXTE PCA and HEXTE data. The morphology of the double-peaked pulse profile changes rapidly with energy from 2 keV up to ∼ 8 keV, above which the pulse shape remains more or less stable. The pulsed spectr...

BACKGROUND Previous interventions have shown promising results using theory-based podcasts to deliver a behavioral weight-loss intervention. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to examine whether a combination of podcasting, mobile support communication, and mobile diet monitoring can assist people in weight loss. METHODS In this 6-month, minimal contact intervention, overweight (n = 9...

in data envelopment analyze (dea) the scale efficiency in the input-oriented ccr model is less than or equal to the scale efficiency in dea based on the fractional analysis (dea-r). also, the scale efficiency in case of multiple inputs and one output and vice versa the scale efficiencies are equal in dea and dea-r. in this paper, first, dea-r model with weight restrictions when there is relativ...

In this work we study the effect of R parity breaking couplings on the fermion number violating process ee → ẽLẽR. We find that an ee linear collider operating at √ s = 500 Gev with an integrated luminosity of 50 fb will be able to probe the coupling (λ2211 + λ 3 311) 1 2 down to .045 for a bino mass of 100 Gev and selectron mass of 200 Gev. This would improve the present bound on it by a facto...

Knee range of motion was determined in 60 patients to assess the effect of weight bearing on maximal knee flexion. Three patient subgroups were investigated: patients with normal knees, patients implanted with posterior cruciate-retaining (PCR) total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and patients implanted with posterior cruciate-substituting (PS) TKA. Maximal knee flexion was determined using videofluo...

Correlated responses in reproductive and carcass traits from a line of Landrace pigs selected for increased 200-d weight along with a randomly selected control line were studied in 195 litters (109 select, 86 control) and 285 pigs (132 select, 153 control). Reproductive and maternal traits studied included litter sizes born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and litter weights at birth and at 21 d....