... density, a major determinant of bone strength and fracture risk [16] The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between some genetic and non genetic osteoporosis risk factors and ... mineral densityand osteoporosis in subjects with osteopenia and osteoporosis RESULTS The studied subjects, who met the inclusion criteria, had mean age 62.2 years, ranging between 44 and 70 years ... μg/mc until 2009 and now is 20 μg/mc Monthly evolutions of mean concentration of NO2 and PM 10 in 2009 are presented in Figures and Evolutions of mean annual concentrations of NO2 and PM 10 between...
... Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS); and ZONMw We thank Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR) for data on cancer and death, and screening organization ‘Bevolkingsonderzoek ... K, Pruthi S, Brandt KR, Pankratz VS: Mammographic density, breast cancer risk and risk prediction Breast Cancer Res 2007, 9:217 McCormack VA, dos Santos Silva I: Breast densityand parenchymal ... relationship between breast measures and breast cancer risk by calculating odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for quintiles of percent density, dense area and non-dense area Quintiles...
... and his wife Silvina, and to my sisters-in-law: the late Basilides and her late husband Dr Alfonso Madarang, Clarita and her late husband Elpidio Zamora, Luz and her husband Perpetuo Apale, and ... brother Meliton and to his wife Nena; to my sister Anelda and to her husband Isidro; to my other sister Feliza and to her husband Martin; and to my brother-in-law Col Miguel M Alivio, MD and to his ... measurements and flow and quality equalization; pumping; screening, sedimentation, and flotation; mixing and flocculation; conventional filtration; advanced filtration and carbon adsorption; and aeration,...
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... supplies, agricultural and industrial uses, and the protection and propagation of a balanced population of shellfish, fish and wildlife, and allow recreational activities in and on the water, the ... International, Regional and National Standardisation 1.3.2.3 National Standardisation 1.3.3 Standard Methods of Main Parameters 1.3.3.1 Biological Oxygen Demand 1.3.3.2 Chemical Oxygen Demand 1.3.3.3 Total ... Algae, Protozoa and Helminths in Fresh and Drinking Water Edited by André van der Beken, Giuliano Ziglio and Franca Palumbo Analytical Methods for DrinkingWater: Advances in Sampling and Analysis...
... measuring bone density The T-score relates bone density to young, healthy, race and gender-matched bone It is easily obtained and provides an objective quantitative number The T-score and body mass ... such as bone mineral density, body mass index, age, gender, and femoral component size has been demonstrated in many studies as an aid in decreasing the rate of revisions and improving the outcomes ... femoral neck fracture and two for femoral component loosening These occurred in two female and three male patients In the multi-variable regression model, only T-score and body mass index showed...
... / Journal of Power Sources 158 (2006) 1106–1109 1109 Results and discussion Conclusions 3.1 Stick insertion depth test The densityand hardness of the negative pastes of lead–acid batteries, that ... the total structure of organic additives affects the densityand hardness of the paste Commercial lignin derivatives (Vanillex N, Vanisperse A, and Indulin AT) have also been characterized by means ... paste It is found that the densityand hardness of the paste containing either anthracene or anthraquinone are almost the same as those without additives, both before and after the addition of...
... pure oak stands For oak, Fagacées describes the stand basal area increment as a function of dominant height, height increment of the dominant trees, and stand density To allocate the stand basal ... consider stand density (Rdioak+beech ), admixture of beech (mixbeech ), stand (age ageoak ), and site quality (SIoak ) as potentially influencing variables We calculated the stand density in two ... stand density rule calculated by Dhôte and Le Moguédec [15], and then applied them to the dataset available of oak and beech for northern France Due to differences in the underlying datasets and...
... found in Zhang and Morgenstern [48] and Koga and Zhang [25] Age trends in changes and variation of mean wood densityand its components, minimum and maximum densities, ring width, and composite ... 3, 6, and 10 yr old of hybrid poplar clones at four sites combined: means and standard errors, F-criteria and probability of fixed effects and variance components and standard errors for random ... hybrids: (a) ring width and mean wood density, (b) ring width and minimum wood density, (c) ring width and maximum wood density, (d) mean and minimum wood densities, (e) mean and maximum wood densities,...
... age and environmental conditions), in order to evaluate cone and seed characteristics, as well as the canopy-stored seed bank depending on differences in climate and tree density MATERIALS AND ... within the sites Each site represented a different stand tree densityand climate conditions (Tab I) They were located randomly within the sites and were circular in design (r = 10 m; 350 m2 ) Each ... sub-humid (CAR, SUR and TAR), southern dry (TUS and YES) and southern semi-arid (CAL) precipitation zones [36] So the study compared six different values for tree densityand three for site quality...
... fracture test (Pf, sf and Gf) and basic density The parameters a and b are calculated to adjust the theoretical law to experimental data (table III) Correlation between Gf and basic density is less ... from compression test (ER, sy and W20%) and x is the basic density The parameters a and b depend on wood species, but the question concerns the dependence between a, b and temperature We tried two ... deformation and energetic criteria) are chosen to describe load displacement curves from these tests Evolution of each criterion is analysed respect to basic densityand temperature MATERIALS AND METHODS...
... random family effect with mean zero and variance σ2F; BxFij is the random interaction or plot effect with mean zero and variance σ2BF; and eijk is the random residual effect with mean zero and ... several sites in New Zealand, Cown and Ball [6] also measured average ring densityand determined that heritabilities of wood density located at the juvenile (rings to 10) and mature (rings 11 +) ... parameters: (3) VAx = 4σFx and (4) Cov(Ax , Ay ) = 4CovFxy where VAx and σ2Fx are the additive genetic variance and family variance component for trait X, respectively; and Cov(Ax,Ay) and CovFxy are the...
... (soils with sand content higher than 80%) and the variables included in the final predictive models for total densityand main crop density Model (Adj–r2) Variable d.f Parameter estimate Standard error ... Plots of the total height by age-class and stand Stands with a mean age of less than two years have been excluded (Stands and 5) 284 S.C González-Martínez and F Bravo 285 Natural regeneration of ... total densityand main crop density Model (Adj–r2) Variable d.f TOTAL DENSITY (0.5378) CONSTANT TIME PC PC 1 1 MAIN CROP DENSITY (0.5087) CONSTANT Prep1 PC PC 1 1 Parameter estimate Standard...
... and lianoid growth and identification of species and families follows Guinko [9] Figure Rainfall patterns in mm per year and the geographical position of four forest stands: Sa, Tiogo, Yabo and ... (Dob0.5, Dub0.5, and DDryub0.5), basic density (BDub and BDob), bark percentage (BM% and BV%) and moisture content (MC ob%) Simple linear regressions were fit to BDub on Dub0.5 and to BM% on Dub0.5 ... (6) where β0, β1 and β2 are coefficients, α is a random tree effect and i is the tree number and j is the disc number within the tree All αi and εij are assumed to be independent and have a normal...
... differences in Bmax and Vmax values between patients with FM and controls Moreover, we found a negative correlation between symptom scores and the respective Bmax and Vmax values (Bmax and Vmax versus ... platelets of patients with FM Bmax and Kd values of [3H]Paroxetine binding were assumed to represent SERT densityand ligand binding affinity, respectively, whereas Vmax and Km values of [3H]Serotonin ... platelets and neuronal membranes, associated with 5-HT uptake mechanisms [39] The present results indicate a decrease in the densityand rate of platelet SERT in patients with FM, and allow us...
... optimal density will have been reached and, therefore, maximum adult production From this point on there will be more individuals than unit spaces and, consequently a greater struggle for food and ... understanding of intra- and intergenotypic competition systems It is also to determine the differential effects of uric acid and urea on genotypes The effect of these residues on viability and developmental ... outcome of the competition process, as demonstrated by C et density (a al., 1986) II Materials and methods A Strains and vials Both natural and laboratory strains were used in these experiments Each...
... SM and JB designed and supervised the research and discussed the results; BTW, SM, and SC all performed experiments with help from SW and SA BTW analyzed the data with the help of JB and SM and ... patterns for the different chromatinand transcription-related features across intron-less and Figure An example of FAIRE, Pol II ChIP-chip, and expression data The top and bottom panels with green points ... data for the upper and lower strand, respectively, obtained from random-primed RNA hybridized to Affymetrix tiling arrays with each point representing a single probe The second and fourth panels...
... other hand, cells transfected with LMP1 expression plasmids (Fig 4C, lanes and 4) showed very distinct and intense bands of sizes smaller than kb DNA sequencing of these bands (600 bp and 300 ... bromide-stained agarose gel SUNE1 (lanes 1-3) and HONE1 (lanes 4-6) seeded at cell number of 0.4 × 105 (lanes and 4), × 105 (lanes and 5) and × 105 (lanes and 6) were harvested for genomic DNA extraction ... cell density- induced apoptosis in causing chromosome cleavage, SUNE1 and HONE1 NPC cells were seeded at different densities and allowed to grow for days Genomic DNA was extracted, digested and...
... mineral densityand geometry by pQCT have shown that articular and periarticular inflammation is associated with bone loss and changes in bone geometry, in particular reduced cortical thickness and ... vBMD and bone geometry of metacarpal bone, radius and tibia in patients with established RA by pQCT and to compare these peripheral bone parameters to those of healthy controls Materials and methods ... non-dominant hand was palpated and measured from base to head by measuring tape to the nearest mm The subjects were seated in a chair side on to the gantry and had their arm and hand resting on a custom...