this study was undertaken to investigate the feasibility of treating industrial wastewater using soil and plant system. nine cylindrical plastic-lysimeters (60 cm diameter and 100 cm height) equipped with a drain pipe at the bottom were filled by granular sandy-loam soil. sunflower, oat and fescue were planted each in three lysimeters, in order to investigate the effectiveness of plants in lead...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether the resilience of males with probable bipolar depression (PBD) can be strengthened and compared it to that of males with probable unipolar depression (PUD). METHODS Prospective data for 198 participants (PBD: 66, PUD: 66, normal control: 66) were analyzed. The participants' resilience, bipolarity and severity of depressive symptoms were evaluated at b...

Polo-like kinases (Plks) play multiple roles in mitosis and cytokinesis in eukaryotes and are characterized by the C-terminal Polo-box domain (PBD), which is implicated in binding to Plk substrates, targeting Plk and regulating Plk activity. The Plk homolog in Trypanosoma brucei (TbPLK) possesses a similar architecture, but it lacks the crucial residues involved in substrate binding and regulat...

OBJECTIVES This paper sought to determine if there were an association between drain placement and the incidence of wound complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS A single-center institutional review board-approved retrospective study between 2001 to 2008, comparing 680 kidney transplant patients who either had a drain placed or were left undrained. Linear regression modeling was used to adjust t...

Background: An electronic device consists of electronic components attached on a circuit board. Reliability of such a device is limited to fatigue properties of the components as well as of the board. Printed circuit board (PCB) consists of conducting traces and vertical interconnect access (via) out of copper embedded in a composite material. Usually the composite material is fiber reinforced ...

SecA, the preprotein translocase ATPase, has a helicase DEAD motor. To catalyze protein translocation, SecA possesses two additional flexible domains absent from other helicases. Here we demonstrate that one of these "specificity domains" is a preprotein binding domain (PBD). PBD is essential for viability and protein translocation. PBD mutations do not abrogate the basal enzymatic properties o...

This experiment was carried out to increase the shelf life and maintaining the quality of mango (Mangifera indica) fruits. There were two factors. Factor A: postharvest treatments with six levels (1. untreated (control), 2. washing with chlorine, 3. dipping (5 minutes) in calcium chloride (CaCl2), 4. dipping (5 minutes) in bavistin and rinse in clean water, 5. hot water treatment and 6. tap wat...

A Programming by Demonstration or PbD system allows its users to construct procedural knowledge or programs on an abstraction level highly above traditional programming languages. The acquired procedural knowledge can be used to automate repetitive tasks and to enable users to concentrate their efforts on the creative part of their work. The major application areas are interactive systems as gr...

High-performance, flexible all graphene-based thin film transistor (TFT) was fabricated on plastic substrates using a graphene active layer, graphene oxide (GO) dielectrics, and graphene electrodes. The GO dielectrics exhibit a dielectric constant (3.1 at 77 K), low leakage current (17 mA/cm(2)), breakdown bias (1.5 × 10(6) V/cm), and good mechanical flexibility. Graphene-based TFTs showed a ho...