the responses of isabgol (plantago ovata forsk.) to micronutrient foliar application under low irrigation condition were investigated. the experiment was carried out in agricultural research farm of zabol university, iran, during growing season of 2007-2008. the experiment was conducted in spilt plot using randomized complete block design with four replications. three irrigation regimes defined...

One of the most prominent properties of networks representing complex systems is modularity. Networkbased module identification has captured the attention of a diverse group of scientists from various domains and a variety of methods have been developed. The ability to decompose complex biological systems into modules allows the use of modules rather than individual genes as units in biological...

Atmospheric, non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology offers great promise to address several infection control issues in health care and life sciences. NTP-based processes have the ability to inactivate harmful infectious microorganisms (pathogens) with minimal impact to surrounding material and tissue. In addition, NTP processes offer advantages over antibiotics and chemical disinfectants: lethali...

Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is a heterodimeric protein, first recovered from EBV-transformed B cell lines. It is a multifunctional cytokine, the properties of which bridge innate and adaptive immunity, acting as a key regulator of cell-mediated immune responses through the induction of T helper 1 differentiation. By promoting IFN-gamma production, proliferation, and cytolytic activity of natural kil...

Conceptually, a typical spectroscopic experiment is extremely simple. Electromagnetic radiation at a certain nominal wavelength λ is allowed to impinge on the sample. Then some properties of the radiation that emerges from the sample are measured. One of the simplest properties is the fraction of the incident radiation absorbed or dissipated by the sample. (Typical techniques are optical absorp...

Guanine (G)-rich sequences in nucleic acids can assemble into G-quadruplex structures that involve G-quartets linked by loop nucleotides. The structural and topological diversity of G-quadruplexes have attracted great attention for decades. Recent methodological advances have advanced the identification and characterization of G-quadruplexes in vivo as well as in vitro, and at a much higher res...

The author explores the application of graph colouring to biological networks, specifically protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. First, the author finds that given similar conditions (i.e. graph size, degree distribution and clustering), fewer colours are needed to colour disassortative than assortative networks. Fewer colours create fewer independent sets which in turn imply higher conc...