Asymptotic expansions for partitions generated by infinite products.

Recently, Debruyne and Tenenbaum proved asymptotic formulas for the number of partitions with parts in ( ) and good analytic properties of the corresponding zeta function, generalizing work of Meinardus. In this paper, we extend their work to prove asymptotic formulas if is a multiset of integers and the zeta function has multiple poles. In particular, our results imply an asymptotic formula for the number of irreducible representations of degree of .

Longitudinal trials illustrate interactive effects between declining Bt efficacy against Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and planting dates of corn.

Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) has evolved resistance to insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Berliner (Bacillales: Bacillaceae) expressed in genetically engineered corn, Zea mays L. This study provides an overview of field trials from Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina evaluating Bt and non-Bt corn hybrids from 2009 to 2022 to show changes in susceptibility in H. zea to Bt corn.

Confined within a sugarcane monoculture: A participatory assessment of water pollution and potential health risks in the community of El Tiple, Colombia.

Communities neighboring monoculture plantations are vulnerable to different forms of pollution associated with agro-industrial operations. Herein, we examine the case of El Tiple, a rural Afro descendant community embedded within one of the largest sugarcane plantations in the Americas. We implemented a participatory approach to assess water pollution, exposure via water ingestion, and non-carcinogenic health risks associated with the use of local water sources available to the community.

Effects of Herbal Tea (Non-Camellia sinensis) on Glucose Homeostasis and Serum Lipids in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Context: Hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia increase the risk for diabetes and its complications, atherosclerosis, heart failure, and stroke. Identification of safe and cost-effective means to reduce risk factors is needed. Herbal teas may be a vehicle to deliver antioxidants and polyphenols for prevention of complications.

Phase I DAVIO Trial: EYP-1901 Bioerodible, Sustained-Delivery Vorolanib Insert in Patients With Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate safety and tolerability of EYP-1901, an intravitreal insert containing vorolanib, a pan-VEGF receptor inhibitor packaged in a bioerodible delivery technology (Durasert E™) for sustained delivery, in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD) previously treated with anti-VEGF therapy.

Design: Phase I, multicenter, prospective, open-label, dose-escalation trial.

Participants: Patients with wAMD and evidence of prior anti-VEGF therapy response.

Cycloaddition of Phenyltriazolinedione with Carbazole-Alkynes and Yne-Carbamates to Access Diazacyclobutenes.

Previously, we described the synthesis of stable, bicyclic examples of the rather rare diazacyclobutene (DCB) motif by means of a cycloaddition between triazolinediones and electron-rich thiolated alkynes. Here, we report the investigation of the cycloaddition of triazolinediones with related electron-rich yne-carbamates and carbazole-alkynes. Bicyclic DCBs arising from yne-carbamates were isolated in 8-65% yield, while those arising from carbazole-alkynes were isolated in 28-59% yield.

Lipid modulation contributes to heat stress adaptation in peanut.

At the cellular level, membrane damage is a fundamental cause of yield loss at high temperatures (HT). We report our investigations on a subset of a peanut () recombinant inbred line population, demonstrating that the membrane lipid remodeling occurring at HT is consistent with homeoviscous adaptation to maintain membrane fluidity. A major alteration in the leaf lipidome at HT was the reduction in the unsaturation levels, primarily through reductions of 18:3 fatty acid chains, of the plastidic and extra-plastidic diacyl membrane lipids.

Log concavity for unimodal sequences.

In this paper, we prove that the number of unimodal sequences of size is log-concave. These are coefficients of a mixed false modular form and have a Rademacher-type exact formula due to recent work of the second author and Nazaroglu on false theta functions. Log-concavity and higher Turán inequalities have been well-studied for (restricted) partitions and coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms, and analytic proofs generally require precise asymptotic series with error term.

Use of AgomiR and AntagomiR technologies to alter satellite cell proliferation , miRNA expression, and muscle fiber hypertrophy in intrauterine growth-restricted lambs.

microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that work at the posttranscriptional level to repress gene expression. Several miRNAs are preferentially expressed in skeletal muscle and participate in myogenesis. This research was conducted to alter endogenous miRNA expression in skeletal muscle to promote muscle hypertrophy.

Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot of Lavender: New Host-Pathogen Relationships Involving Six Species of and Three Species of .

Phytophthora root and crown rot has become a major threat to the lavender industry worldwide. Isolations from symptomatic plants between 2015 and 2019 revealed a number of potential causal agents in the United States. In this study, we tested nine species of and four species of and used Koch's Postulates to prove pathogenicity for six new host-pathogen relationships and confirm two pathogenic relationships for the first time in the United States.

Associations among computed tomographic measures of bone and muscle quality and biomechanical measures of tibiotarsal bone quality in laying hens.

Objective: The objectives of the current study were to quantify laying hen sternal carina (keel) and tibiotarsal bone and muscle quality using clinical CT, tissue level, and biomechanical measures; test associations among muscle transverse sectional area, bone mineral density, and biomechanical measures of bone quality; and determine whether CT measures of bone and muscle quality would be predictive of biomechanical measures of tibiotarsal bone quality.

Animals: 60 40-week-old Hy-Line brown laying hens were used.

Methods: Associations among CT imaging, tissue level, and biomechanical measures of tibiotarsal and keel bone and muscle quality were tested using multivariate correlational analyses.

Genetic architecture of source-sink-regulated senescence in maize.

Source and sink interactions play a critical but mechanistically poorly understood role in the regulation of senescence. To disentangle the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying source-sink-regulated senescence (SSRS), we performed a phenotypic, transcriptomic, and systems genetics analysis of senescence induced by the lack of a strong sink in maize (Zea mays). Comparative analysis of genotypes with contrasting SSRS phenotypes revealed that feedback inhibition of photosynthesis, a surge in reactive oxygen species, and the resulting endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress were the earliest outcomes of weakened sink demand.

The impact of daylight and window views on length of stay among patients with heart disease: A retrospective study in a cardiac intensive care unit.

Background: Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. The length of stay (LOS) is a well-established parameter used to evaluate health outcomes among critically ill patients with heart disease in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs). While evidence suggests that the presence of daylight and window views can positively influence patients' LOS, no studies to date have differentiated the impact of daylight from window views on heart disease patients.

Biorisk Management Features of a Temporary COVID-19 Hospital.

Introduction: Yale University designed and constructed a temporary field hospital for 100 COVID-19 symptomatic patients. Conservative biocontainment decisions were made in design and operational practices. Objectives of the field hospital included the safe flow of patients, staff, equipment and supplies, and obtaining approval by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT DPH) for opening as a field hospital.

IBA Delivery Technique and Media Salts Affected In Vitro Rooting and Acclimatization of Eight Genotypes.

Difficult-to-root plants often perform poorly during acclimatization and in vitro rooting can increase the survival and quality of plants. The influence of auxin application and mineral nutrition on in vitro rooting and subsequent effects on plant quality in eight genotypes were investigated. Microshoots were rooted in vitro on Murashige and Skoog (MS), ½ MS, Driver and Kuniyuki (DKW), or New Prunus Medium (NPM) media formulations in combination with 15 µM indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), 4-day 15 µM IBA pulse, 1 mM 30 s quick-dip, or IBA-free treatments.

Yield, Nutritional Composition, and Digestibility of Conventional and Brown Midrib (BMR) Pearl Millet as Affected by Planting and Harvesting Dates and Interseeded Cowpea.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the yield, nutritional composition, and digestibility of conventional (CON) and brown midrib (BMR) pearl millet (PM) with different establishment dates, maturity at harvest and when mixed with cowpea (CWP). In trial 1, CON and BMR were planted on two different dates. In trial 2, CON and BMR, mixed or not with CWP, were harvested when PM was at the boot or heading stages.

Intraobserver repeatability for a standardized protocol to quantify keel bone damage in laying hens using discrete and continuous radiographic measures.

Sternal carina damage (keel bone damage, KBD) is an important welfare concern for laying hen producers and backyard flock owners. Quantitative radiographic measures of KBD severity are helpful for researchers who study causes for this problem and the effects of novel interventions. The objectives of the current retrospective secondary analysis study were to develop and test intraobserver repeatability for a standardized protocol to quantify three categories of radiographic KBD using open-source image analysis software and discrete and continuous variables.

Comparative efficacy of tannin-free grain sorghum varieties for the control of necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens in broiler chickens.

A 28-day battery cage study was conducted to test the efficacy of tannin-free grain sorghum varieties fed to Cobb 500 male broiler chickens (n = 512) and challenged with Eimeria maxima (EM) and Clostridium perfringens (CP). Birds were fed 1 of 8 treatments (corn, red/bronze, white/tan, or U.S.

miRNA transcriptome and myofiber characteristics of lamb skeletal muscle during hypertrophic growth.

Postnatal muscle growth is achieved through hypertrophy of the muscle fibers and is impacted by the activity of satellite cells, the quiescent muscle stem cell. Several miRNAs are preferentially expressed in skeletal muscle and could provide a mechanism for increasing muscle hypertrophy through satellite cell proliferation and/or differentiation. The objectives of this study were to: 1) Characterize the miRNA transcriptome of the longissimus thoracis et lumborum muscle at several developmental timepoints [gestational d 85 (PN1), 110 (PN2), 133 (PN3), postnatal d 42 (PW1), 65 (PW2), 243 (MAT)] during muscle hypertrophy in lambs, and 2) examine miR-29a, identified in sequencing to be differentially regulated across development, loss of function on satellite cell proliferation and differentiation.

Weighted cylindric partitions.

Recently Corteel and Welsh outlined a technique for finding new sum-product identities by using functional relations between generating functions for cylindric partitions and a theorem of Borodin. Here, we extend this framework to include very general product-sides coming from work of Han and Xiong. In doing so, we are led to consider structures such as weighted cylindric partitions, symmetric cylindric partitions and weighted skew double-shifted plane partitions.

A Phase I, Single Ascending Dose Study of GEM103 (Recombinant Human Complement Factor H) in Patients with Geographic Atrophy.

Purpose: To establish the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of an intravitreal injection of recombinant human complement factor H (CFH), GEM103, in individuals with genetically defined age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and geographic atrophy (GA).

Design: Phase I single ascending-dose, open-label clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT04246866).

Apparent metabolizable energy, growth performance and carcass traits of Japanese quail fed select modern grain sorghum varieties.

Objective: This study was performed to determine the apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) content of tannin-free red/bronze, white/tan and U.S. No.

Outlook for Implementation of Genomics-Based Selection in Public Cotton Breeding Programs.

Researchers have used quantitative genetics to map cotton fiber quality and agronomic performance loci, but many alleles may be population or environment-specific, limiting their usefulness in a pedigree selection, inbreeding-based system. Here, we utilized genotypic and phenotypic data on a panel of 80 important historical Upland cotton ( L.) lines to investigate the potential for genomics-based selection within a cotton breeding program's relatively closed gene pool.

Analyzing material changes consistent with degradation of explanted polymeric hernia mesh related to clinical characteristics.

Background: Proposed mechanisms that potentially contribute to polypropylene mesh degradation after in vivo exposure include oxidizing species and mechanical strains induced by normal healing, tissue integration, muscle contraction, and the immediate and chronic inflammatory responses.

Methods: This study explores these potential degradation mechanisms using 63 mesh implants retrieved from patients after a median implantation time of 24 months following hernia repair surgery (mesh explants) and analysis of multivariate associations between the material changes and clinical characteristics. Specifically, polypropylene mesh degradation was characterized in terms of material changes in surface oxidation, crystallinity and mechanical properties, and clinical characteristics included mesh placement location, medical history and mesh selection.

Chickpea ( L.) as a Source of Essential Fatty Acids - A Biofortification Approach.

Chickpea is a highly nutritious pulse crop with low digestible carbohydrates (40-60%), protein (15-22%), essential fats (4-8%), and a range of minerals and vitamins. The fatty acid composition of the seed adds value because fats govern the texture, shelf-life, flavor, aroma, and nutritional composition of chickpea-based food products. Therefore, the biofortification of essential fatty acids has become a nutritional breeding target for chickpea crop improvement programs worldwide.