Gas exchange, tissue water relations, and leaf/root dry weight ratios were compared among young, container-grown plants of five temperate-zone, deciduous tree species (Acer negundo L., Betula papyrifera Marsh, Malus baccata Borkh, Robinia pseudoacacia L., and Ulmus parvifolia Jacq.) under well-watered and water-stressed conditions. There was a small decrease (mean reduction of 0.22 MPa across s...

A novel Salicornia brachiata Salt Inducible (SbSI-1) gene was isolated and overexpressed in tobacco for in planta functional validation subjected to drought and salt stress. SbSI-1 is a nuclear protein. The transgenic tobacco overexpressing SbSI-1 gene exhibited better seed germination, growth performances, pigment contents, cell viability, starch accumulation, and tolerance index under drought...

It is well known that Gn(x) converges to the standard normal distribution function, (x), provided Eh(X1,X2) <∞ [see Hoeffding (1948)]. In fact, this moment condition can further be reduced to Eg(X1) <∞ and E|h(X1,X2)|4/3 <∞; see Remark 4.2.4 of Koroljuk and Borovskich [(1994), page 131]. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in obtaining rates of convergence in the asymptotic no...

Alcohol intake has been associated with higher blood pressure in acculturated populations but not in unacculturated societies. We performed a cross-sectional survey of a random community sample of 5023 male Yi rural farmers and 1656 Yi and 2173 Han men living in an urban setting. Average alcohol intake among drinkers was 36.4 g/d in Yi farmers, 56.5 g/d in Yi migrants, and 38.7 g/d in Han men. ...

J. K. Freericks1,*, H. R. Krishnamurthy1,2,3, Yizhi Ge1, A. Y. Liu1, and Th. Pruschke4 1 Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057 USA 2 Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India 3 Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560064, India 4 Institu...