To address the combined effects of cadmium (Cd) and elevated CO2 on soil microbial communities, DGGE (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) profiles, respiration, carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentrations, loessial soils were exposed to four levels of Cd, i.e., 0 (Cd0), 1.5 (Cd1.5), 3.0 (Cd3.0) and 6.0 (Cd6.0) mg Cd kg(-1) soil, and two levels of CO2, i.e., 360 (aCO2) and 480 (eCO2) ppm. Co...

The effects of estrogen and progesterone on the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in human endometrium were studied in hypogonadal women under conditions that simulated a normal menstrual cycle. All women received the same regimen of estrogen and progesterone and underwent serial biopsies. In one group of women (group I), a biopsy was obtained before receiving estrogen (CD0)...

In this work, we prove the existence of a solution for initial value problem nonlinear fractional differential equation with quadratic perturbations involving Caputo derivative ( cDα0+−ρt cDβ0+)(x(t)f(t,x(t)))=g(t,x(t)),t∈J=[0,1],1<α<2,0<β<α( cD0+α−ρt cD0+β)(x(t)f(t,x(t)))=g(t,x(t)),t∈J=[0,1],1<α<2,0<β<α conditions x0=x(0)f(0,x(0))x0=x(0)f...

Nylon (PA) netting is widely used in purse seines and other fishing gears due to its high strength and good sinking performance. However, hydrodynamic properties of nylon netting of different characteristics are poorly understood. This study investigated hydrodynamic characteristics of nylon netting of different knot types and solidity ratios under different attack angles and flow velocities. I...

2014 Some aspects of the thermodynamic state of CdTe crystals grown by different zone passing techniques (sealed ingot zone refining technique and THM in tellurium solvent) are considered with regard to the general objective of getting high resistivity crystals. A vapour growth technique, called sublimation THM, which reduces several drawbacks of classical THM using a tellurium solvent, is deve...

CD0-type spaces were firstly introduced by Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead in [1] and [2] and further investigated by S. Alpay and Z. Ercan in [3]. CD0-type spaces deserve to be called Abramovich–Wickstead spaces, or briefly AW -space as in [4], since they mainly stem from the works of Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead. In this note we construct a new type AW -space and call it CDr 0 ...

INTRODUCTION Aim of the study was to evaluate the relevance of baseline (BL) plasma tropism of HIV on the achievement of a viral suppression within six months of antiviral therapy (ARV) in naïve patients by a structural-equation-modelling. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two-hundred and twenty-seven patients were enrolled; viral tropism on plasma was determined at baseline (BL) by sequencing and interp...

Background: To ascertain the effects of tropical leaf meals on semen production and semen quality. Objective: This study was conducted with the main objective of investigating the effect of neem leaf meal on physiological responses of rabbit bucks fed graded levels of neem leaf (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) meal. Materials and Methods: The varying levels of neem leaf meal (NLM) in the different ...

and Applied Analysis 3 where Hα is a Γ-open set, Gγ is a Σ-open set, and Mγ is a Γ-compact set. It is easy to see that {Gγ ×{0}}γ∈Ω is an open cover ofK×{0}, thus there is a finite subcoverGγ1 ×{0}, . . . , Gγn ×{0}. Then, Gγ1 × {0, 1} \Mγ1 × {1} ∪ · · · ∪Gγn × {0, 1} \Mγn × {1} 1.6 misses only finitely many Γ-compact sets Mγ1 × {1}, . . . ,Mγn × {1}. AsMγj j 1, 2, . . . , n is compact, we have...