The very-metal-poor halo star CS 31082-001 was discovered to be very strongly r-process-enhanced during the course of a VLT+UVES high-resolution follow-up of metal-poor stars identified in the HK survey of Beers & colleagues. Both the strong n-capture element enhancement and the low carbon and nitrogen content of the star (reducing the CN molecular band contamination) led to the first U abundan...

A fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis induces tan spot of wheat which is a foliar disease that causes yield loss to wheat crops worldwide. In this study, a new, simple and non-costly technique was performed to produce the sexual stage of this fungus in culture, within 9 weeks using wheat straw. This protocol will be helpful to researchers studying the biology of sexual stage development, diseas...

This paper describes a novel filtering method (FIMER) to extract three critical yield loss components: gross yield loss from parametric problems or from clustering of defects, repeated yield loss from mask defects or from lithography margin, and random yield loss mainly from particles. It is shown by simulation that FIMER is not only superior to the conventional windowing method in extracting r...

secale cereale is a nosious, problematic weed of wheat fields in iran. for evaluation of the yield and yield components of bread wheat (triticum aestivum l.) cultivars in the presence of rye an experiment was established in a randomized compelet block design with factorial arrangment of treatments in meshkindasht and varamin during 2002-2003 growin season. experimental factors were wheat cultiv...

conclusions toxic causes with an incidence of 49.6% were the most common cause of loss of consciousness among all age groups. results among the 123 children under investigation, 76 cases were male (61.8%) and 47 females (38.2%) with the mean age of 3.2 ± 0.64 years. the most common causes of loss of consciousness among children were as follows: toxic causes in 61 patients (49.6%), infectious ca...

We present deep I and z imaging of the colour-selected cluster RzCS 052 and study the color-magnitude relation of this cluster, its scatter, the morphological distribution on the red sequence, the luminosity and stellar mass functions of red galaxies and the cluster blue fraction. We find that the stellar populations of early type galaxies in this cluster are uniformly old and that their lumino...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to joint destruction, disability, and decreased quality of life (QOL). Inhibition of Janus kinase (JAK) signaling ameliorates articular inflammation and joint destruction in animal models of RA, but its effects on behaviors indicating well-being are poorly understood. In this study, we evaluated the effect of JAK ...