The purpose of this investigation was to examine the psychophysiologic responses of Type A and Type B individuals, among persons with and without coronary heart disease (CHD). Subjects were 58 adult male volunteers; 24 had a history of myocardial infarction or clinically diagnosed angina pectoris (CHD) and 34 had been designated free of coronary disease following recent cardiologic examination ...

Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) was chosen as a model to shed light on the physiological role of jasmonates (JAs) during fruit ripening. To this aim, the effects of methyl jasmonate (MJ, 0.40 mM) and propyl dihydrojasmonate (PDJ, 0.22 mM), applied in planta at different fruit developmental stages, on the time-course of ethylene production and fruit quality traits were evaluated. MJ-induced cha...

American Society of Animal Science members, publishing in Journal of Animal Science (JAS), completed research that resulted in understanding the estrous cycle of cattle, which led to the ability to inseminate cattle on a given day with pregnancy rates similar to those achieved by 21-d breeding by a fertile and sound bull. Research published in JAS led to understanding estrus, ovulation, the est...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate regional differences in the business characteristics Japanese agricultural cooperatives (JAs), which have been widely criticized for depending on non-agricultural activities, contradictory cooperative principles. We construct a panel data set over 2004–2019 from financial statements JAs’ prefectural-level federations and use stochastic meta-f...

JASMONATE ZIM-domain (JAZ) proteins act as repressors of jasmonate (JA) signaling. Perception of bioactive JAs by the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 (COI1) causes degradation of JAZs via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, which in turn activates the expression of genes involved in plant growth, development, and defense. JAZ proteins contain two highly conserved sequence regions: the Jas d...

The sedentary life of plants has forced them to live in an environment that is characterized by the presence of numerous challenges in terms of biotic and abiotic stresses. Phytohormones play essential roles in mediating plant physiology and alleviating various environmental perturbations. Jasmonates are a group of oxylipin compounds occurring ubiquitously in the plant kingdom that play pivotal...

Experiments explored how a distractor coming from a known location influences localization of a subsequent sound, both in a classroom and in an anechoic chamber. Listeners localized a target click preceded by a distractor click coming from a location fixed throughout a run of trials either frontal or lateral . The stimulus onset asynchrony SOA between distractor and target was relatively long 2...

A new efficient authentication protocol providing anonymous channels in the global system for mobile communications is presented, using algorithms A3, A5 and A8. The protocol is the result of a combination between the recent GSM authentication scheme proposed by Lee, Hwang and Yang (LHY) and the anonymous channel protocol presented by Lin and Jan (LJ). The result is a protocol with all the feat...