The palatal turnover flap- A novel random pattern flap for the reconstruction of oro-nasal defects

The effects of the non-ionic detergent Triton X-100 on 6-sulphation of two species of endogenous nascent proteochondroitin by a chick-embryo cartilage microsomal system was examined. Sulphation of the larger (Type I) species with adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-phosphosulphate was slightly diminished when Triton X-100 was present, whereas sulphation of the smaller (Type II) species was slightly enhanced. An ordered rather than random pattern of sulphation was obtained for the smaller proteoglycan, but with a considerably lower degree of sulphation than that of the larger proteochondroitin. These differences were consistent with other differences between these two species as described previously. Sulphation of exogenous [14C]chondroitin and exogenous proteo[3H]chondroitin by the microsomal system with Triton X-100 present produced ordered rather than random sulphation patterns. When a 100,000 g supernatant fraction was utilized for sulphation of [14C]chondroitin or proteo[3H]chondroitin, Triton X-100 was not needed, and ordered sulphation was still obtained. When hexasaccharide was used, sulphation of multiple N-acetylgalactosamine residues of the individual hexasaccharides resulted. This was relatively independent of Triton X-100 or the concentration of the hexasaccharide acceptors. With soluble enzyme, sulphation of multiple N-acetylgalactosamine residues on the individual hexasaccharide molecules was even greater, so that tri-sulphated products were found. This suggests that ordered rather than random sulphation of chondroitin with these enzyme preparations is due to enzyme-substrate interaction rather than to membrane organization.

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P.143L:Late-News Poster: Light Extraction in Organic Light Emitting Diodes using SF6/CHF3 Plasma Treated Random Pattern

SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers ◽

10.1002/j.2168-0159.2013.tb06526.x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 1477-1479

Author(s):

Ju Hyun Hwang ◽

Tae Hyun Park ◽

Hyun Jun Lee ◽

Kyung Bok Choi ◽

Young Wook Park ◽

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Keyword(s):

Light Emitting Diodes ◽

Organic Light Emitting Diodes ◽

Light Extraction ◽

Random Pattern ◽

Light Emitting ◽

Organic Light

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Disease Risk, Spatial Patterns, and Incidence-Severity Relationships of Fusarium Head Blight in No-till Spring Wheat Following Maize or Soybean

Plant Disease ◽

10.1094/pdis-09-14-0944-re ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 99 (10) ◽

pp. 1360-1366 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Pierri Spolti ◽

Denis A. Shah ◽

José Maurício C. Fernandes ◽

Gary C. Bergstrom ◽

Emerson M. Del Ponte

Keyword(s):

Fusarium Head Blight ◽

Large Scale ◽

Disease Risk ◽

Random Pattern ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Head Blight ◽

Previous Crop ◽

Regional Sources ◽

Epidemiological Surveys ◽

The Relationship

The first large-scale survey of Fusarium head blight (FHB) in commercial wheat fields in southern Brazil was conducted over three years (2009 to 2011). The objectives were to: (i) evaluate whether increased FHB risk is associated with within-field maize residue; (ii) determine the spatial pattern of FHB incidence; and (iii) quantify the relationship between FHB incidence and severity. FHB was assessed in a total of 160 fields between early milk and dough. Incidence ranged from 1.0 to 89.9% (median = 25%) and severity from 0.02 to 18.6% (median = 1.3%). FHB risk was neither lower nor higher in wheat following maize than in wheat following soybean. Only 18% of fields were classified as having aggregated patterns of FHB-symptomatic spikes. A binary power law description of the variances was consistent with an overall random pattern of the disease. These results conform with the hypothesis that FHB epidemics in southern Brazil are driven by sufficient atmospherically-transported inoculum from regional sources. The incidence-severity relationship was coherent across growing season, growth stage, and previous crop; one common fitted curve described the relationship across all observations. Estimating severity from incidence may be useful in reducing the workload in epidemiological surveys.

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The Effects of Vasonatrin Peptide on Random Pattern Skin Flap Survival

Annals of Plastic Surgery ◽

10.1097/sap.0b013e318255a3eb ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 94-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Shi-Ping Wang ◽

Zhi-Yong Lan ◽

Wei Xia ◽

Xi Zhao ◽

Ge-Jia Ma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Skin Flap ◽

Random Pattern ◽

Flap Survival ◽

Skin Flap Survival

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Comparison of performance of tile drainage routines in SWAT 2009 and 2012 in an extensively tile-drained watershed in the Midwest

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ◽

10.5194/hess-22-89-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 89-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Tian Guo ◽

Margaret Gitau ◽

Venkatesh Merwade ◽

Jeffrey Arnold ◽

Raghavan Srinivasan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Calculation Method ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Curve Number ◽

Surface Flow ◽

Tile Drainage ◽

Random Pattern ◽

Field Site ◽

Nitrate N ◽

Simulated Surface ◽

Tile Flow

Abstract. Subsurface tile drainage systems are widely used in agricultural watersheds in the Midwestern US and enable the Midwest area to become highly productive agricultural lands, but can also create environmental problems, for example nitrate-N contamination associated with drainage waters. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) has been used to model watersheds with tile drainage. SWAT2012 revisions 615 and 645 provide new tile drainage routines. However, few studies have used these revisions to study tile drainage impacts at both field and watershed scales. Moreover, SWAT2012 revision 645 improved the soil moisture based curve number calculation method, which has not been fully tested. This study used long-term (1991–2003) field site and river station data from the Little Vermilion River (LVR) watershed to evaluate performance of tile drainage routines in SWAT2009 revision 528 (the old routine) and SWAT2012 revisions 615 and 645 (the new routine). Both the old and new routines provided reasonable but unsatisfactory (NSE  <  0.5) uncalibrated flow and nitrate loss results for a mildly sloped watershed with low runoff. The calibrated monthly tile flow, surface flow, nitrate-N in tile and surface flow, sediment and annual corn and soybean yield results from SWAT with the old and new tile drainage routines were compared with observed values. Generally, the new routine provided acceptable simulated tile flow (NSE  =  0.48–0.65) and nitrate in tile flow (NSE  =  0.48–0.68) for field sites with random pattern tile and constant tile spacing, while the old routine simulated tile flow and nitrate in tile flow results for the field site with constant tile spacing were unacceptable (NSE  =  0.00–0.32 and −0.29–0.06, respectively). The new modified curve number calculation method in revision 645 (NSE  =  0.50–0.81) better simulated surface runoff than revision 615 (NSE  =  −0.11–0.49). The calibration provided reasonable parameter sets for the old and new routines in the LVR watershed, and the validation results showed that the new routine has the potential to accurately simulate hydrologic processes in mildly sloped watersheds.

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