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Control of Fusarium graminearum in Wheat With Mustard-Based Botanicals: From in vitro to in planta

2020

Fusarium graminearum is a phytopathogenic fungus that causes Fusarium head blight in small-grain cereals, such as wheat, with significant yield reductions. Moreover, it contaminates the cereal grains with health-threatening mycotoxins, such as deoxynivalenol (DON), jeopardizing food and feed safety. Plant-based biopesticides, i.e. botanicals, have recently gained increased interest in crop protection as alternatives to synthetic chemical products. The main objective of this study was to test the control efficacy of botanicals based on white or Indian/Oriental mustard seed flours (Tillecur – Ti, Pure Yellow Mustard – PYM, Pure Oriental Mustard – POM, Oriental Mustard Bran – OMB) on F. gramin…

Migrēnas raksturojums 21.gadsimta sākumā

2019

KOPSAVILKUMS – Migrēnas raksturojums 21. gadsimta sākumā Ievads: Migrēna ir primāras galvassāpes, kas zīmīgi var paliktināt dzīves kvalitāti. Pēdējo desmitu gadu laikā uzskati par migrēnu ir stipri mainījušies un ir sagaidāms, ka 21. gadsimtā zinātniskie pētījumi par šo tēmu palielināsies. Mērķis: Noteikt dažādu migrēnas formu prevalenci, aprakstīt un analizēt migrēnas īpašības Latvijas populācijas grupā un atklāt iespējamos iemeslus novēlotai migrēnas diagnozei. Materiāli un Metodes: Dažādas migrēnas pazīmes tika ievāktas, analizējot 101 migrēnas diagnozes pacienta slimības vēsturi. Migrēnas īpašības tika analizētas, pielietojot aprakstošo statistiku. Pazīmju atšķirību analīze tika veikta,…

Expression profile of components of the β-catenin destruction complex in oral dysplasia and oral cancer

2021

Background Oral cancer represents the sixth most common cancer in the world and is associated with 40-50% survival at 5 years. Within oral malignancies, oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is commonly preceded by potentially malignant lesions, which, according to histopathological criteria, are referred to as oral dysplasia and their diagnosis are associated with higher rates of malignant transformation towards cancer. We recently reported that aberrant activation of the Wnt/β‑catenin pathway is due to overexpression of Wnt ligands in oral dysplasia. However, the expression of other regulators of this pathway, namely components of the β-catenin destruction complex has not been explored in o…

The Artek cup for total hip replacement of dysplastic hip joints.

2003

One specific difficulty in total hip replacement for developmental dysplasia of the hip is a shallow acetabulum with a short anteroposterior diameter. In a prospective cohort study we investigated the short-term results of the Artek cup, designed with a shallow outline and a height-reduced metal inlay for a large size 38 mm metal head, in a group of female patients with mild dysplasia of the hip.Fourteen consecutive patients with 17 dysplastic hip joints were included in the study. Their average age was 42 years. Fourteen hips had dysplasia Crowe grade I; 3 hips had dysplasia Crowe grade II. The femoral head centre was localized according to Pagnano in zone 1 in 3 cases, in zone 3 in 6 case…

Low risk of intracranial emergency in patients with minor head injury treated with antiplatelet therapy.

2021

Anatomical networks reveal the musculoskeletal modularity of the human head

2015

AbstractMosaic evolution is a key mechanism that promotes robustness and evolvability in living beings. For the human head, to have a modular organization would imply that each phenotypic module could grow and function semi-independently. Delimiting the boundaries of head modules and even assessing their existence, is essential to understand human evolution. Here we provide the first study of the human head using anatomical network analysis (AnNA), offering the most complete overview of the modularity of the head to date. Our analysis integrates the many biological dependences that tie hard and soft tissues together, arising as a consequence of development, growth, stresses and loads and mo…

Nebenreaktionen der radikalisch ausgelösten Cyclisierung von 2,2′-Methylen-bis(4-methyl-1,2-phenylen)-dimethacrylat

1979

2,2′-Methylene-bis(4-methyl-1,2-phenylene) dimethacrylate (1) was reacted with an excess of 2,2′-azoiso-butyronitrile (mole ratio 1:15) highly diluted in boiling benzene. The reaction products were separated by column chromatography. It was found that the 1-cyano-1-methylethyl radical induced the cyclization of 1 to yield the product of a head to tail addition (2) in 55% yield. In addition, the product of a head to head addition (3) was isolated in 4% yield. 35% of 1 reacted in the same way as it has already been observed as suppression of polymerization in the case of p-tolyl methacrylate to give the products 4 and 5. The structures of the products were confirmed by elemental analyses, by …

A Web-Oriented Java3D Talking Head

2009

Facial animation denotes all those systems performing speech synchro- nization with an animated face model. These kinds of systems are named Talking Heads or Talking Faces. At the same time simple dialogue systems called chatbots have been developed. Chatbots are software agents able to interact with users through pattern-matching based rules. In this paper a Talking Head oriented to the creation of a Chatbot is presented. An answer is generated in form of text trig- gered by an input query. The answer is converted into a facial animation using a 3D face model whose lips movements are synchronized with the sound produced by a speech synthesis module. Our Talking Head exploits the naturalnes…

A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot

2008

Facial animation is referred to all those systems per- forming the speech synchronization with an animated face model. This kind of systems are called ”Talking Head” or ”Talking Face”. In this paper a Talking Head oriented to the creation of a Chatbot is presented. It requires an in- put query and an answer is generated in form of text. The answer is transduced into a facial animation using a 3D face model whose lips movements are synchronized with the sound produced by a speech synthesis module. Our ”Talk- ing Head” explores the naturalness of the facial animation and provides a real-time interactive interface to the user. The WEB infrastructure has been realized using the Client- Server m…

Virtual conversation with a real talking head

2008

A talking head is system performing an animated face model synchronized with a speech synthesis module. It is used as a presentation layer of a conversational Agent which provide an answer. It provides an answer when a query is written as an input by the user. The textual answer is converted into facial movements of a 3D face model whose lips and tongue movements are synchronized with the sound of the synthetic voice. The Client-Server paradigm has been used for the WEB infrastructure delegating the animation and synchronization to the client, so that the server can satisfy multiple requests from clients; while the Chatbot, the Digital Signal Processing and the Natural language Processing a…