Zinc salts occurring in soils can exert an osmotic stress toward plants. However, being zinc a heavy metal, some more specific effects on plant metabolisms can be forecast. In this work, lettuce has been used as a model to investigate salt and zinc stresses at proteome level through a shotgun tandem MS proteomic approach. The effect of zinc stress in lettuce, in comparison with NaCl stress, was...

OBJECTIVE This study tests the hypothesis that stress reduction methods based on mindfulness meditation can positively influence the rate at which psoriasis clears in patients undergoing phototherapy or photochemotherapy treatment. METHODS Thirty-seven patients with psoriasis about to undergo ultraviolet phototherapy (UVB) or photochemotherapy (PUVA) were randomly assigned to one of two condi...

Abstract The mechanical properties and the operating life of a formed component are highly dependent on residual stress state. There is always high magnitude stresses in components by incremental sheet forming (ISF) due to localized deformation mechanism. Hence, thorough understanding generation ISF necessary. This study investigates mechanism for two process variants ISF, i.e., Single Point In...