Exploring the role of grafting in abiotic stress management: Contemporary insights and automation trends.

Grafting is a technique that involves attaching a rootstock to the aerial part of another genotype or species (scion), leading to improved crop performance and sustainable growth. The ability to tolerate abiotic stresses depends on cell membrane stability, a reduction in electrolyte leakage, and the species of scion and rootstock chosen. This external mechanism, grafting, serves as a beneficial tool in influencing crop performance by combining nutrient uptake and translocation to shoots, promoting sustainable plant growth, and enhancing the potential yield of both fruit and vegetable crops.

Extraskeletal osteosarcoma infiltrating pancreas, spleen, gastric, and left kidney: a case report.

Background: Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is an extremely rare malignancy that accounts for 1% of soft tissue sarcoma and 4.3% of all osteosarcoma. Extraskeletal osteosarcoma can develop in a patient between the ages of 48 and 60 years.

Circadian-based approach for improving physiological, phytochemical and chloroplast proteome in Spinacia oleracea under salinity stress and light emitting diodes.

Salt stress is a recognized annihilating abiotic stress that has a significant impact on agricultural and horticulture crop productivity. Plant development faces three distinct dangers as a result of salt stress: oxidative stress, osmotic stress, and ionic toxicity. It has been shown that plants can forecast diurnal patterns using the circadian clock; moreover, they can manage their defensive mechanism for the detoxification of reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Total pancreatoduodenectomy for multiple pancreatic cysts in von Hippel-Lindau disease presenting as obstructive jaundice: A case report.

Introduction: Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease can be known as a rare autosomal dominant syndrome that affects some organ systems and is characterized by the growth of both benign and malignant tumors. Diagnosis and management of VHL were needed to have better outcomes.

Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male with a history of VHL disease and positive family history presented with jaundice and pruritus.

Grafting enhances drought tolerance by regulating and mobilizing proteome, transcriptome and molecular physiology in okra genotypes.

Drought stress poses a serious concern to the growth, development, and quality of the okra crop due to factors including decreased yield, inadequate development of dietary fibre, increased mite infestation, and decreased seed viability. Grafting is one of the strategies that have been developed to increase the drought stress tolerance of crops. We conducted proteomics, transcriptomics and integrated it with molecular physiology to assess the response of sensitive okra genotypes; NS7772 (G1), Green gold (G2) and OH3312 (G3) (scion) grafted to NS7774 (rootstock).

Epileptic Seizure Detection With Patient-Specific Feature and Channel Selection for Low-power Applications.

An accurate epileptic seizure detector using intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) recordings, suitable for low-power wearable/implantable applications, is presented. Eleven time-domain features with low hardware complexity are employed in the feature pool of the seizure detector. A novel two-step feature ranking algorithm based on maximum discrimination minimum redundancy (MDMR) is proposed to identify the most discriminating features in a patient-specific manner during a training phase.

Two-stage Hardware-Friendly Epileptic Seizure Detection Method with a Dynamic Feature Selection.

A novel low-complexity method of detecting epileptic seizures from intracranial encephalography (iEEG) signals is presented. In the proposed algorithm, coastline, energy and nonlinear energy features of iEEG signals are extracted in a patient-specific two-stage seizure detection system. The detection stage of the proposed system, which extracts two times more features than the monitoring stage, is only powered on when the monitoring stage detects a seizure occurrence.

Target-Based Physiological Modulations and Chloroplast Proteome Reveals a Drought Resilient Rootstock in Okra () Genotypes.

As climate changes increase, drought stress is becoming a problem for all major horticultural crops; among them is okra (). Despite its superior resilience to heat stress and high nutritional content, it is still underutilized in contrast to other vegetable crops. Moreover, the drought-resistant and drought-sensitive genotypes of okra are also not well known and require further exploration to improve their productivity.

Drought stress-induced physiological mechanisms, signaling pathways and molecular response of chloroplasts in common vegetable crops.

Drought stress is one of the most adverse abiotic stresses that hinder plants' growth and productivity, threatening sustainable crop production. It impairs normal growth, disturbs water relations and reduces water-use efficiency in plants. However, plants have evolved many physiological and biochemical responses at the cellular and organism levels, in order to cope with drought stress.

Ethylene regulates sulfur acquisition by regulating the expression of sulfate transporter genes in oilseed rape.

To manage nutrient deficiencies, plants develop both morphological and physiological responses. The studies on the regulation of these responses are limited; however, certain hormones and signaling components have been largely implicated. Several studies depicted ethylene as a regulator of the response of some nutrient deficiencies like iron, phosphorous and potassium.

Comparative physiological and proteomic analysis deciphering tolerance and homeostatic signaling pathways in chrysanthemum under drought stress.

Drought is increasing prevalently, mostly due to global warming, and harmful effects associated with drought stress include a reduction in the developmental phases of the plant life cycle. Drought stress affects vital metabolic processes in plants such as transpiration, photosynthesis and respiration. The other physiological and cellular processes like protein denaturation and aggregation are also affected by drought.

Experimental Assessment of Absolute Stability in Bilateral Teleoperation.

Absolute stability analysis of bilateral teleoperation systems are typically model-based. Under borderline conditions of absolute stability, depending on the degree of uncertainty in the dynamic model of the teleoperator and existing noise, the system may behave as potentially unstable when the model-based analysis predicts otherwise. In this article, we propose a methodology to experimentally verify the absolute stability of master-slave teleoperation systems.

Case report: elective removal of a large mesenteric cyst-our approach.

A mesenteric cyst is rare intra-abdominal pathology, with little literature to guide us on how to diagnose and manage it. We report the incident of a 57-year-old female who had an incidental finding of a sigmoid mesenteric cyst whilst undergoing an operation under the care of the Gynaecologists. A computed tomography scan and a flexible sigmoidoscopy followed to help diagnose the lesion as a cyst.

Emergency repair of Morgagni hernia with partial gastric volvulus: our approach.

Morgagni hernias are a rare form of congenital diaphragmatic hernias, thus there is paucity in literature about the diagnosis and management of the condition. We report an 83-year-old woman who presented with vomiting and a metabolic acidosis with a previous computed tomography diagnosis of Bochdalek's hernia. Diagnostic laparoscopy revealed a Morgagni hernia containing transverse colon, greater curvature of the stomach and a partial gastric volvulus.

Computed tomography in the investigation and management of obturator hernia.

Introduction: Obturator hernias are a rare groin hernia. They are most commonly found incidentally during laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. We investigated our experience with obturator hernias in the elective and emergency setting.

Angiosarcoma and Dialysis-related Arteriovenous Fistulae: A Comprehensive Review.

Objective/background: To conduct a comprehensive review of cases, presentation, diagnosis, and management of angiosarcoma in arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) created for haemodialysis.

Methods: Two authors independently conducted systematic searches and extraction of articles from the Embase, AMED, Health Management Information Consortium, and MEDLINE databases in keeping with the inclusion/exclusion criteria and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses standards.

Results: Twenty-two unique patient cases were identified; 20 of the cases were men and mean ± SD age of presentation was 54.

Development of a Guaranteed Stable Network of Telerobots with Kinesthetic Consensus.

We present the research advances on the development of 50-200 mJ energy range diode-pumped Yb:CaF2- based multipass amplifiers operating at relatively high repetition rates. These laser amplifiers are based on diverse innovative geometries. All these innovations aim to design compact, stable and reliable amplifiers adapted to our application that consists in pumping ultrashort-pulse OPCPA (optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier) systems in the frame of the Apollon 10 PW laser project.

Ziprasidone-induced cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia: specificity or pseudospecificity?

Objective: Ziprasidone may improve cognition in schizophrenia; however, this could be related to clinical symptom improvement, reflecting "pseudospecificity". We tested the hypothesis that ziprasidone improves cognition in the absence of clinical improvement.

Methods: We conducted a 12-week, open-label study of ziprasidone in 10 schizophrenia patients who met non-response criteria (<20% reduction in BPRS scores over 12 weeks).

Hand preference and hand skill in families with schizophrenia.

Direction and degree of handedness in humans are variable between individuals and thought to be in part inherited. Several studies have shown an increase in non-right handedness among patients with schizophrenia, and some have included unaffected relatives. The present study was designed to determine whether reduced right handedness is more frequent among individuals with schizophrenia as compared with their well relatives and whether it clusters within families having multiple ill members.

Sex-dependent effects of schizophrenia: an MRI study of gyral folding, and cortical and white matter volume.

Alterations, sometimes sex-dependent, in volumes and gyral structure of areas of cerebral cortex have been reported in schizophrenia. Such changes imply an anomaly of connectivity. The gyrification, percentage of tissue volume attributed to white matter, cortical volume and white matter volume were measured from magnetic resonance images in males and females with (n = 61) and without (n = 42) schizophrenia.

Genome-wide scan for linkage to schizophrenia in a Spanish-origin cohort from Costa Rica.

Genetic isolates have been useful cohorts in which to search for genes underlying disorders of unknown pathology. One such cohort is thought to exist in the Central Valley of Costa Rica surrounding the city of San Jose. Previous investigators identified a rare dominant gene for hereditary deafness in this population, and a suggestive linkage of severe bipolar psychosis has been reported in another study.

A genome-wide scan for linkage to chromosomal regions in 382 sibling pairs with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.

Objective: Some genome-wide scans and association studies for schizophrenia susceptibility genes have yielded significant positive findings, but there is disagreement between studies on their locations, and no mutation has yet been found in any gene. Since schizophrenia is a complex disorder, a study with sufficient power to detect a locus with a small or moderate gene effect is necessary.

Method: In a genome-wide scan of 382 sibling pairs with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, 396 highly polymorphic markers spaced approximately 10 centimorgans apart throughout the genome were genotyped in all individuals.

Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia in multiply affected Spanish origin families from Costa Rica.

Sixty-six families from Costa Rica with multiply ill sets of siblings were examined in detailed clinical evaluations and compared with 59 similarly evaluated families from the USA. Eighty-six unrelated Costa Rican individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis and no other ill siblings were an additional comparison group. This study was undertaken to examine whether schizophrenia in Costa Rica has similar clinical and demographic characteristics to that in the USA, whether a homogeneous population such as that in Costa Rica might harbor a specific definable subtype, and whether singletons have similar or differing characteristics from individuals in multiplex families.