Diabetes mellitus is an endocrinological disorder arising from insulin deficiency or due to ineffectiveness of the insulin produced by the body. This results in high blood glucose and with time, to neurological, cardiovascular, retinal and renal complications. It is a debilitating disease and affects the population of every country of the world. Around 200 million people of the world suffer fro...

Cuscuta species are obligate parasitic plants that infect the stems of a wide range hosts including many crop and weed causing severe agricultural problems. Using in vitro experiments to screen organic extracts prepared from fifteen autotrophic found fields infested with campestris, we have identified for first time strong phytotoxic activity Conyza bonariensis extract against C. campestris. Ad...

Margarita Jiménez-Palomares,* José Francisco López-Acosta,* Pablo Villa-Pérez, José Luis Moreno-Amador, Jennifer Muñoz-Barrera, Sara Fernández-Luis, Blanca Heras-Pozas, Germán Perdomo, Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, and Irene Cózar-Castellano Instituto de Genética y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain; Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of...

We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be reduced by making commitments that reduce flexibility. We show that such consumption commitments can induce consumers with riskneutral underlying utility functions to be risk averse over small variations in income, but sometimes to seek risk over large variations. As a result, optimal employment contracts will smooth wages c...

RNA trafficking in plants contributes to local and long-distance coordination of plant development and response to the environment. However, investigations of mobile RNA identity and function are hindered by the inherent difficulty of tracing a given molecule of RNA from its cell of origin to its destination. Several methods have been used to address this problem, but all are limited to some ex...

The Future Internet is posing new security challenges as their scenarios are bringing together a huge amount of stakeholders and devices that must interact under unforeseeable conditions. In addition, in these scenarios we cannot expect entities to know each other beforehand, and therefore, they must be involved in risky and uncertain collaborations. In order to minimize threats and security br...

The white peach scale (WPS), Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) (Homoptera: Diaspididae), is a world wide polyphagous scale insect. It is widely distributed in north of Iran, near the Caspian Sea areas, where it is the main pest of mulberry and kiwi trees. The development and fecundity of P. pentagona were examined at different temperatures and on different hosts in the laboratory. T...