BACKGROUND This case is unique because it is the first reported case of Down syndrome with morning glory optic disc anomaly in literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 15-year-old girl with features of Down syndrome presented to the Clinic of Ophthalmology for a regular ophthalmologic examination. Her best corrected visual acuity was 20/50 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. The fundus examina...

Although Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth.) has been used intensively for genetic studies, DNA markers have not been developed in Ipomoea nil sufficient to cover all chromosomes. Therefore, we conducted microsatellite (simple sequence repeats, SSR) marker development in I. nil for future genetic studies. From 92,662 expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences, 514 unique microsatellite-...

Simple phenotypic and genotypic correlation coefficients were calculated from 18 genotypes of glory lily (Gloriosa superba L.) during two seasons (2007 and 2008). Experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with three replications at the Medicinal Plants Unit, Botanical Garden, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Positive phenotypic and genotypic correlat...

— Some insight into the theological assumptions and intentions of the Emmaus story can be gained by reading Luke 24 in light of Second Temple traditions about the “glory” of the protoplast, of Moses, and of other elect individuals. This article reads the Emmaus story in conjunction with the Lukan Transfiguration account, Mark’s “Longer Ending”, 2!Baruch, and the Liber!Antiquitatum! Biblicarum, ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glory mission, a remote sensing Earth-orbiting observatory, which is now scheduled for launch in October of 2010 [1], as part of the A-train constellation (705 km altitude, 98.2 degrees inclination) Sun-Synchronous orbit. The Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), the primary science instrument onboard Glory, will collect multi-angle, multi-sp...

The tendency to "bask in reflected glory" (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments. All three studies showed this effect to occur even though the person striving to bask in the glory of a successful source was not involved in the cause of the source's success. Experiment 1 demonstrated the BIRG phenomenon by showing a gr...

Revisión del libro Ascent to Glory. How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic por A. Santana Acuña