… , transferred to a greenhouse for an additional growth period under short-day conditions [8-h
day, 20 C; 16-h night, 16 C]. Material: base of the leaf; leaf harvested 4 h after onset of light). …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, debilitating joint disease characterized by degenerative
changes to the bones, cartilage, menisci, ligaments, and synovial tissue. Imaging modalities …

Micromagnetics has been the method of choice to interpret experimental data in the area of
microscopic magnetism for several decades. In this article, we show how progress has been …

A learning algorithm for multilayer feedforward networks, RPROP (resilient propagation), is
proposed. To overcome the inherent disadvantages of pure gradient-descent, RPROP …

… Stop electrophoresis after 2–4 h. Use short runs if native extraction of proteins or 2D native
electrophoresis is to follow. At that point the protein has not yet reached its pore size limit. …

The physics programme and the design are described of a new collider for particle and
nuclear physics, the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), in which a newly built electron …

OVERVIEW Socially desirable responding (SDR) is typically defined as the tendency to give
positive self-descriptions. Its status as a response style rests on the clarification of an …

Wheat is fundamental to human civilization and has played an outstanding role in feeding a
hungry world and improving global food security. The crop contributes about 20 % of the …

Table 1-1. Category of evidence (2). Ia Evidence from meta-analysis of randomised controlled
trials Ib Evidence from at least one randomised controlled trial IIa Evidence from at least …

The availability of dense molecular markers has made possible the use of genomic selection
(GS) for plant breeding. However, the evaluation of models for GS in real plant populations …