Root and crown rot (gummosis) is known as the most destructive disease affecting pistachio in Iran. The efficiency of bacterial strains to reduce the growth rate of Phytophthora pistaciae was studied under different electrical conductivities (EC, 0, 2, 4, 8, 12 ds/m). Soil and rhizosphere samples were collected from pistachio growing regions in Kerman province, Iran, during 2011 - 2012. Overall...

Adolescence is a period of increased risk experience and ever more often these occur online. The current study aims to investigate whether adolescents’ online and offline risk experiences are driven by the same general propensity to risks. Data from a representative study of N = 19,406 (50% girls) internet-using 11-16 year olds (M = 13.54, SD = 1.68) youth in Europe were subjected to the curren...

The „Barnett formula‟, which governs the transfer of block grant from the UK Treasury to the governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to fund devolved services, is fatally flawed. It bears no relation to relative need. Also, because the devolved administrations do not raise most of the taxation required to fund their services, they have no incentive to be fiscally responsible. The S...

We established a bacterial membrane model with monolayers of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS Re and LPS Ra) and quantified their viscoelastic properties by using an interfacial stress rheometer coupled to a Langmuir film balance. LPS Re monolayers exhibited purely viscous behaviour in the absence of calcium ions, while the same monolayers underwent a viscous-to-elastic transition upon compre...