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Capsicum annuum is notable for its secondary metabolites, which can be of great interest for use in agriculture as alternatives to agrochemicals. Cell suspensions have been used for in vitro large-scale production of secondary metabolites. The aim of this study was to dedifferentiate leaf cells of Capsicum annuum cv. Pimentão Amarelo (yellow bell pepper) into calluses, and to study their growth pattern, focusing on the deceleration phase, when they can be subcultured to establish cell suspensions.

The purpose of this study was to comment on some of the new considerations that occurred in the 2015 update of guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The new considerations of these guidelines were presented, based on the division of care according to the environment in which the victim is, that is, pre-hospital and in-hospital. In the pre-hospital setting, it is considered important to avoid performing chest compressions exceeding six centimeters and more than 120 beats per minute. In addition, it is recommended that ventilation be given every six seconds.

The purpose of this study is to examine the altruism levels of the students of the School of Physical Education and Sports. For this purpose, Dumlupınar University and Erciyes University were the target population of the study and volunteer participants (n = 401) were randomly selected from the students of the School of Physical Education and Sports.

The importance of protected areas in providing ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation is recognised all over the world by numerous authors. The study aimed to establish a diagnosis of the dynamics of the land use types in the protected area, assess the state of the plant diversity conservation and analyse the structure of the forest ecosystems still preserved in the Wildlife Reserve of Togodo. To this end, the study was based on the analysis of satellite images at three various including Landsat 7 and Landsat 8.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 is an recently Indian legislation passed by the parliament which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences in light of the protests after Delhi gang rape case. This new Act has expressly recognized certain acts as offences which were dealt under related laws. These new offences like, acid attack, sexual harassment, voyeurism, stalking have been incorporated into the Indian Penal Code.

Phenolics are generally widely distributed in the plant kingdom and are the most plentiful secondary metabolites of plants. Plant polyphenols have pinched increasing attention due to their effective antioxidant properties and their marked effects in the prevention of a variety of oxidative stress related diseases such as cancer. The antioxidant content of fruits and vegetables may contribute to the protection they put forward from disease.

Present research work analysed and compared the profitability in rain-fed maize production in Jaunpur district, India and Adamawa state, Nigeria. Purposive and simple random sampling was adopted for the selection of district, block, local government areas, villages as well as 280 respondents that is 140 from each of the study area. The data was collected for the period of 2014-2015 cropping season in both countries.

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus self-reported by elderly residing in an urban area of a municipality in the northwestern region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. A population-based cross-sectional study, with 424 elderly, with the application of a questionnaire containing socio-economic, demographic and behavioral variables, morbidities, use of medicaments and health services, and functional capacity evaluation.

Creativity is a highly valued quality of human being. Family environment has much influence on the development of it in the children. The rules, regulation, discipline and management pattern vary from family to family. Freedom of thought and actions is different in various families. Boys and girls enjoy different degree of freedom in their family to unfold their creative potential. A few studies have concerned with gender difference in creativity. But in this local area, culture, is there any difference in creativity with the gender difference?

Robotics demonstrates a huge potential as an educational and interaction tool because it allows that content discussed in class can be worked in an interdisciplinary way to solve recurrent problems in the daily life of students.