Tentoxin, a cyclic tetrapeptide, induces chlorosis in certain plant species. It inactivated photophosphorylation and coupling factor 1 (CF(1)) ATPase in lettuce, a sensitive species. This effect was due to binding of tentoxin with CF(1) at a single site (affinity constant 1.3 to 20 x 10(7) M(-1)). Neither AMP nor adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate appeared to bind to this site. In radish, an insensi...

We study normal criterion of meromorphic functions shared values, we obtain the following. Let F be a family of meromorphic functions in a domain D, such that function f ∈ F has zeros of multiplicity at least 2, there exists nonzero complex numbers bf , cf depending on f satisfying i bf/cf is a constant; ii min{σ 0, bf , σ 0, cf , σ bf , cf ≥ m} for some m > 0; iii 1/ck−1 f f ′ k z f z / b f/c ...

In [9] the author proved that in characteristic 0 the jacobian J(C) = J(Cf ) of a hyperelliptic curve C = Cf : y 2 = f(x) has only trivial endomorphisms over an algebraic closure Ka of the ground field K if the Galois group Gal(f) of the irreducible polynomial f ∈ K[x] is “very big”. Namely, if n = deg(f) ≥ 5 and Gal(f) is either the symmetric group Sn or the alternating group An then the ring ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The development and psychometric properties of an additional disease-specific module of the Questions on Life Satisfaction for adolescents and adults with cystic fibrosis (FLZ(M)-CF) are described. The Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZ(M)) instrument allows the respondent to rate the subjective importance and her/his satisfaction with different domains of life. METHODS A pr...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to assess early infant-feeding patterns in a cohort of low-income black mothers and to examine associations between maternal perception of infant temperament and complementary feeding (CF) before 4 months. METHODS We used cross-sectional data from the 3-month visit (n = 217) of the Infant Care, Feeding and Risk of Obesity Study to assess relationships between early f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is frequently found in advanced parenchymal lung diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF), but the role played by PH in the clinical outcome of CF patients remains unclear. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of PH on survival in the CF population by meta-analysis. METHODS Publications addressing the associations between PH and ov...

Objective. Sweat collected for testing should have quantity not sufficient (QNS) rate of ≤10% in babies ≤3 months of age. Michigan (MI) cystic fibrosis (CF) centers' QNS rates were 12% to 25% in 2009. This project was initiated to reduce sweat QNS rates in MI. Methods/Steps. (a) Each center's sweat testing procedures were reviewed by a consultant. (b) Each center received a report with recommen...

Abstract argumentation frameworks nowadays provide the most popular formalization of argumentation on a conceptual level. Numerous semantics for this paradigm have been proposed, whereby cf2 semantics has shown to nicely solve particular problems concernend with odd-length cycles in such frameworks. In order to compare different semantics not only on a theoretical basis, it is necessary to prov...