Slow breathing training reduces resting blood pressure, probably by modifying central autonomic control, but evidence for this is lacking. The pressor response to static handgrip exercise is a measure of autonomic control and the aim of this study was to determine whether slow breathing training modulates the pressor responses to exercise of untrained muscles. Twenty hypertensive patients train...

The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis of sleep proposes that slow wave sleep (SWS) causes downscaling of synaptic networks potentiated during information uptake in prior wakefulness. Two studies in Neuron challenge this mechanism. Chauvette et al. (2012) show that SWS mediates an up- rather than downregulation of excitatory postsynaptic potential responses. Grosmark et al. (2012) find that downsc...

It has been known for 50 years or longer that much disease is caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS). At an international meeting of the World Health Organization in the mid-1960s, the distinguished Russian toxicologist, Professor Sanojki, presented a major treatise on the ‘rusting diseases’, a phrase not understood by many American and European delegates, but intended to mean diseases attribu...

Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici ( Pgt ), has re-emerged as one of the major concerns for global wheat production since evolution Ug99 and other virulent pathotypes from East Africa, Europe, Central Asia, regions. Host resistance is most effective, economic, eco-friendly approach managing rust. Understanding virulence nature, genetic diversity, origin, distribution, e...

SIEGEL, J. M., M. B. STERMAN AND S. ROSS. Automatic detection and operant reinforcement of slow potential shifts.PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 23(2) 411-413, 1979.—A technique for the automatic detection and operant reinforcement of slow potential (SP) changes is described. The SP shift detection device contains 3 inhibit channels to control sources of potential artifact including: vertical EOG, horizontal E...

Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than the natural sciences, and other social sciences finance. It is even relatively slower at extremes. We demonstrate that of lag, especially extremes, arises from authors' dilatory behavior revising their work. The marginal product an additional round re-submission top journals productive subsequent citations; but conditional re-sub...