... structureof Alu could be retained therein The proportion of inverted Alus within the LIRs is 6% for intronic regions and 3% for intergenic regions The grouping of the LIRs is also a result of ... recombinogenic and account for only approximately 0.4% of all human LIRs, as suggested previously [33] Our algorithm allows the presence of mismatches and insertions in the stem part of the secondary structure, ... a small percentage difference between the ranges, suggesting a random distributionof LIRs in both intronic and intergenic regions (see Fig S1) We also considered the effect of the length of these...
... minimum of 70 banded females and 18 unbanded females nested and 84 banded males and unbanded males nested An additional 24 banded females and 17 banded males were present during the breeding season ... determined the number of individual banded female and male plovers and the number of individual unbanded female and male plovers that were recorded at each nesting area along the Oregon coast from ... (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) breeds along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in California, Oregon, and Washington and at alkaline lakes in the interior of the western United States (Page et al 1991)...
... 1993-2007 (80%) A minimum of 54 banded females and 12 unbanded females nested and 57 banded males and unbanded males nested An additional 17 banded females and 17 banded males were present during ... including all four males and four of the females Three females and three males originally hatched in Oregon and were subsequently rebanded at coastal nest sites in California; two of the males and ... determined the number of individual banded female and male plovers and the number of individual unbanded female and male plovers that were recorded at each nesting area along the Oregon coast from...
... genomic structureand expression of PNPO Here we present a characterization of the genomic organization, the structureof the mRNA isoforms produced by alternative polyadenylation, and the tissue distribution ... and PLP has an extinction coefficient of 5900 M)1Æcm)1 One unit of specific activity is defined as the amount of protein that catalyses the formation of lmol PLPÆmin)1 at 25 °C The value of Km and ... Cerebral cortex Frontal lobe Parietal lobe Occipital lobe Temporal lobe Paracentral gyrus of cerebral cortex Pons Cerebellum, left Cerebellum, right Corpus callosum Amygdala Caudate nucleus Hippocampus...
... 1993-2010 (78%) A minimum of 90 banded females and 17 unbanded females nested and 104 banded males and unbanded males nested An additional 11 banded females and banded males were present during ... interval method, for the breeding season we observed 107 banded females, 113 banded males, 15-17 unbanded females, and 12-13 unbanded males The totals include six banded male and two banded female ... determined the number of individual banded female and male plovers and the number of individual unbanded female and male plovers that were recorded at each nesting area along the Oregon coast from...
... design, provision of study materials or patients, collection and assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation and manuscript writing All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... frequency of enteric infections as evidenced by the low prevalence of Salmonella, Shigella, and Yersinia species (Table 2) Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational ... developed signs of infection after, at least, two days of hospitalization Ethical approval to perform the study was obtained from the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population All the included...
... equicontinuity of ER, and it completes the proof of the discreteness of the spectrum of L0 The derivation of the asymptotic formula for eigenvalue distributionof L0 Suppose that the eigenvalues of A are ... interpretation, and modification of the initial version of this study Author details Department of Differential Equation, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics-Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, ... u + iv, then for large |v| and u ≥ 0, the integrand will be of order O (e|v|(2t-2)) That is, for a given value of AN, the integrals along the upper and lower sides of C go to zero as B ® ∞ (0...
... regional distributions and relative frequencies of these IR cells were observed according to their location of the large intestinal tract, and these differences are shown in Table The regional distribution ... cardia and fundus of the Korean tree squirrel In addition, glucagon-IR cells were identified in the stomach and small intestine of the Manchurian chipmunk Overall, the distributional patterns of ... Yamada J, Calingasan NY, et al Immunocytochemical distributionof endocrine cells in the gastro-intestinal tract of the horse Equine Vet J, 16:103-107, 1984 Falkmer S, Van Noorden S Ontogeny and phylogeny...
... assessments about their chemical composition, abundance and distribution, and to evaluate the implications of their presence for microdensitometrical analyses of sessile oak wood Although these “contaminations” ... high-resolution anatomical and densitometrical information of each anatomical element, both in 1-D and 2-D Due to technical limitations, the conversion of grey-level to real density values was possible ... of all strips belonging to three trees (I, II and IV) The scans of tree I displayed substantial amounts of light-saturated pixels in all 60 growthrings By means of a scalpel, tiny specimens of...
... the end of July, 62% of the enriched plants ceased growth as compared with 37% of the controls The early onset of yellowing and the stopped terminal bud growth indicates earlier senescence of the ... by a decrease in leaf area and a reduction in shoot growth, which is very unusual and may have resulted from the timing of the nutrient application The accumulation of the carbon surplus was restricted ... to 0.23 in the C0 plants and total -treated dry matter increased by 43% in the C0 enriched plot 2 C0 exchange measurements Discussion and Conclusion Towards the end of the first growth season...
... http://www.actavetscand.com/content/52/1/1 Page of Figure Comparison of partial sequence of 3’UTR of Malaysian isolates and reference strains of feline coronaviruses Multiple alignments were performed using ClustalW Multiple alignment ... FCoV and determine the descriptive distributionand phylogeny of local isolates in FIP-suspected cats Abdominal fluids and/ or tissue samples of 28 cats suspected of having the effusive form of ... sequence analysis and proof reading LSF, NAR, HA and SHSH participated in the collecting of clinical samples MAHI helped in lab works All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of Competing...
... alone is insufficient to keep nucleosomes off promoters, and it probably requires additional cofactors and/ or chromatin-remodeling factors The determinants of global nucleosome distribution Although ... sequence-dependent alteration of chromatin structureand transcription activation of the yeast GAL1-GAL10 genes Mol Cell Biol 1989, 9:1721-1732 Boeger H, Griesenbeck J, Strattan JS, Kornberg RD: Removal of promoter ... the promoters and how transcriptional activators act synergistically has been an area of intense investigation Although the promoter of each gene is unique, the possibility of a general rule that...
... DIGITAL AND OPTICAL COMPENSATIONOF SIGNAL IMPAIRMENTS FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS ADAICKALAVAN MEIYAPPAN (B.Eng.(Hons.), National University of Singapore, Singapore) ... DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2014 Declaration I hereby declare that this thesis is my original work and it ... optical communications era Applications of optical communication in long haul transmission and access networks are considered in this thesis The challenges in signal reception are studied, and...
... Stand structureand allometry of trees during self-thinning of pure stands, J Ecol 66 (1978) 599–614 Structure of mixed jack pine stands on clay [31] Nilsson U., Development of growth and stand ... radius A normality test performed on regression residuals confirmed the validity of the regressions 2.3.4 Spatial distribution Analysis of the spatial distributionof trees in each stand was performed ... stands and stands composed of a mixture of jack pine and white birch and jack pine and trembling aspen Source DF Mean square P>F Stand type Error 19 0.498 0.929 0.711 Figure Skewness of basal...
... template information and some of these include several exploratory works that provided anatomical validation [23] and anatomical labeling of fiber tracts [24, 25], and evaluation The comprehensive ... panel (c) also indices the relative values of ODF in each direction, where blue stands for low ODF value and red for high value Before HARDI can be useful in diagnosis and clinical applications, ... statistical testing for determining the significance of the relationship between the manifold-valued regressors and the real-valued regressands We apply the ODF regression algorithm and statistical...
... reproducing kernel of V We let m, u 19 (2.7) denote the L2 inner product BACKGROUND between m and u, but also, with a slight abuse, the result of the natural pairing between m and v in cases where ... given the initial momentum m0 and the evolving diffeomorphism φt We see that by making a change of variables and obtain the following expression relating mt to the initial momentum m0 and the geodesic ... Geodesic specified by initial momentum In the study of anatomical shapes and variation, pioneered by [87], we consider the shapes as a manifold embedded in a high-dimensional space, where each shape...
... (Similar to the shape of ODF, the colors of ODF also indices the relative values of ODF in each direction, where blue stands for low ODF value and red for high value.) First of all, we denote s = ... diffusion tensors of both the template and target data look like disks, where the first two eigenvalues being equal and the third eigenvalue being almost zero Although the overall image shapes ... IMAGING BASED ON RIEMANNIAN STRUCTUREOF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS Figure 3.13: Spatial distributionof mean squared error of spherical harmonics coefficients across all subjects For each voxel,...
... [61, 65] and then describe how to calculate fσ (J (i) |φ(i) , φ, I0 ) in §4.3 based on a Riemannian structureof the ODFs 62 4.2 The Shape Prior of the Atlas and the Distributionof Random Diffeomorphisms ... Diffeomorphisms Figure 4.2: Illustration of the general frameworkof the Bayesian HARDI atlas estimation 4.2 The Shape Prior of the Atlas and the Distributionof Random Diffeomorphisms Adopting previous ... ODF images in common space Statistical Analysis Biomarkers/ Inference Figure 4.1: The role of Chapter in the ODF-based analysis framework 4.1 General Frameworkof Bayesian HARDI Atlas Estimation...
... the data Finally, we empirically compute the distributionof the R2 statistic via a permutation test by calculating all possible values of the R2 statistic under the permutation of the labels ... principal direction of diffusion tensors [96] Such a registration algorithm does not change the anisotropy of the ODFs (a major observation of aging), and thus would allow us to optimally align ... , ξi ψ i ˆ and logψi ψi ˆ ⊥ = logψi ψi − logψi ψi ˆ ˆ , where (·) and (·)⊥ denote components of (·) parallel and orthogonal to ξi respectively 93 GEODESIC REGRESSION OF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION...
... FEFFERBAUM , E A DALSTEINSSON , G.E S WAN , AND D C ARMELLI Differential Rates of Regional Brain Change in Callosal and Ventricular Size: a 4-Year Longitudinal MRI Study of Elderly Men Cerebral Cortex, ... Manifolds In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy - Geometrical and Statistical Methods for Modelling Biological Shape Variability, ... myelin sheath with aging and the anterior-posterior gradient of corpus callosum In the investigation of the regional aging effects where corpus callosum and corticospinal tracts come across, the...