... al., 1986) and aims at assessing the genetic correlation between FSH ODIN level of ewe lambs and their reproductive performance at their first mating II Materials and methods A Animals and reproduction ... considered all the pregnant females in June-July and October-November, and analyzed variation attributable to flock, birth type and date, age at lambing and date of lambing as fixed effects, sire effects ... skewness and curtosis of residuals 10.6 and 18.0 for FSH and 0.30 and 4.6 for logFSH this transformation did not normalize the residual distribution logarithms were normal distribution bl = and b2...
... 4-fluorophenyl- and 4-methylphenylguanidines (FPhGua and TolGua) interacted with iNOS with Kapp values>2 mm Relationshipbetween the equilibrium constants measured for the binding of guanidines and N-hydroxyguanidines ... increases and koff decreases Because the kcat value found for these seven N-hydroxyguanidines varied by less than a factor 2, it was tempting to investigate a possible relationshipbetween Km ⁄ Kd and ... acid guanidines BuGua and TFBGua were found to be 7- and 25-fold lower than that for l-Arg, and those for the non-a-amino acid N-hydroxyguanidines BuNOHG and TFBNOHG were 3- and 12-fold lower than...
... ability to work well, entrepreneurial style and spirit, good judgment and consensus building skills…etc The relationshipbetween an organization’s structure and culture and the effects on business performance: ... is a group of functions created to allow an organization to produce and dispose of its goods and services to customers.”3 Besides, authority/power is also a factor influencing on “shape of organization” ... understanding behavior will lead to result in conflict and frustration As a starting point, a manager need to recognize how differences influence subordinates’ behavior and attempt to understand...
... inductors, and transistors They are connected to form circuits [e.g., a voltage regulator or an automatic gain control amplifier (AGC)] If such an amplifier is put into a physical enclosure and ... long but they have to be lightweight and are assumed to withstand temporary blasts of air and mud due to nearby explosions [15] Towers are not cheap items, although made of steel and bolts or often ... mechanical vibrations of antenna towers to computer-controlled test systems Although the invasion of numerical processing into radio systems shall continue and expand, there will be areas that long...
... responsibility to provide high quality products and services that serve customers’ needs and wants at acceptable price to both the company and customers And by supplying products and services required ... aims to analyze the relationshipbetween CSR implementation and the development of company This study will figure out how clearly company managers understand this relationship, and how the relationship ... customers, and be able to sustainability development in business competition environment 2.2 The concepts related to CSR In order to understand more clearly about CSR, some concepts related to...
... interactions between performers and audiences and non-verbal story elements including gestures and mimicry Mass media and information and communication technologies can be used to preserve and even ... inhabitants MONACO ICELAND CAYMAN ISLANDS ISLE OF MAN BERMUDA GREENLAND NETHERLANDS ANTILLES BAHAMAS FAROE ISLANDS ANDORRA GEORGIA ARUBA UNITED KINGDOM MALDIVES NEW ZEALAND IRELAND ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SAN ... communication medium and as a repository and distribution system for knowledge and culture 32 This research will examine the relationshipbetween Internet infrastructure, Internet prices and the development...
... patients to assess the relationshipbetween the EQ-5D index and various patient characteristicsand outcomes Using studies from a range of clinical scenarios allowed us to assess relationships between ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/96 Figure between the EQ-5D index and patient characteristics/ clinical outcome measures across diagnosis groups RelationshipRelationshipbetween the EQ-5D index and patient characteristics/ clinical ... SAQ and CCS angina severity class and a smaller relationship with age and ETT The variation seen in the relationshipbetween the EQ-5D index and these variables, with the exception of the ETT and...
... how H bonds to Si and Ge before and after annealing An Oriel Cornerstone instrument was used Makyoh topography [13] was employed to measure the mean curvature radius of the films to evaluate ... The increase in H concentration in a-Si already tends to slow down significantly betweenand 1.5 ml/min flow rate (0.78 and 1.46% partial of total pressure), reaching a maximum value of 17 at.% ... (AFM), infrared (IR) absorption and Makyoh topography (MT) For ERDA, the 1.6 MeV 4He+ beam available at the MeV Van de Graaff accelerator (Research Institute for Nuclear and Particles Physics, Budapest,...
... current one: its Up and Left neighbors, its spatial parent, aunts, and cousins, and its spatiotemporal parent together with its Up and Left neighbors and spatiotemporal aunts In order to check the validity ... itive, we need to constrain the weights to be positive As we can notice from this table, the EC with β = proves to be the most robust and of the best performance compared to the LS and ML criteria ... optimal predictor is proved to be superior to the reconstruction performed with the details corresponding to the lost subbands set to zero We also notice that, as expected, the loss of a subband at...
... cartilage and bone, and belongs to the former group MMPs and TIMP are proteolytic enzymes that belong to the latter group [11] We not know which group YKL-40 belongs to, because the function and origin ... width and biochemical markers between patients with and without GOA The joint space width did not differ between GOA and non-GOA CRP (P = 0.043), pyridinoline (P = 0.046), YKL-40 (P < 0.0001) and ... correlations between the biochemical markers in all of the subjects as determined by the Spearman rank test There were significant correlations between CRP and YKL-40, between pyridinoline and MMP-3, and...
... (dsDNA), (b) nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and αCorrelation between binding to (a) nucleosomes and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), (b) nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and αactinin Absorbance ... helped to recruit patients for the study andto obtain samples, to carry out immunoassays and statistical analyses, to conceive and design the study andto write the final manuscript DPD helped to ... on immunoassays and design of the study AR helped to conceive and design the study andto write the final manuscript DAI helped to conceive and design the study All authors read and approved the...
... necessitates further study on the relationshipbetween TLC and CD4 Therefore, the objective of this research was to assess the relationshipbetween total lymphocyte count (TLC) and CD4 count in one of ... Relationshipbetween CD4 and TLC counts Relationshipbetween CD4 and TLC counts Table 1: Different cut-off values of TLC predicting CD4 < 200 cells/mm3 for subjects aged 18 years and above, and less ... cards (ArbaMinch); and more than 20 000 non-ART, ART and preART cards (Hossana) The total number of cases with complete data on TLC and CD4 counts was 2019 of which 750, 650 and 619 were from...
... sustainability Many factors contribute to implementation and sustainability of the SMA within the mesosystem (intra-mesosystem component) and with regard to its relationshipto the clinical microsystems Most ... model of our healthcare system The microsystem links to the mesosystem in that patients are referred, as needed, to nursing and other services The macrosystem level refers to the local organization ... identified as an intramesosystem component to recognize the linkages among andbetween other meso components (intra-meso) beyond the microsystem, andto emphasize the system redesign Additionally,...
... allow to adjust the analysis for gender and age The aim of our study was to re-evaluate the association between right -to- left shunts (RLS) and stroke subtypes in a patient community large enough to ... longer a significant correlation between RLS and cryptogenic stroke in our study, which reduced the suggested statistical association between cryptogenic stroke and PFO This is in line with a recently ... more likely to show RLS, the correlation between RLS and cryptogenic stroke did not reach significance and further decreased after adjusting for age However, among male patients cryptogenic stroke...
... sustainability Many factors contribute to implementation and sustainability of the SMA within the mesosystem (intra-mesosystem component) and with regard to its relationshipto the clinical microsystems Most ... model of our healthcare system The microsystem links to the mesosystem in that patients are referred, as needed, to nursing and other services The macrosystem level refers to the local organization ... identified as an intramesosystem component to recognize the linkages among andbetween other meso components (intra-meso) beyond the microsystem, andto emphasize the system redesign Additionally,...
... using TCAs to using SSRIs [3], similar to what happened when doctors stopped prescribing barbiturates [14] The aim of the paper is to study the relationshipbetween increased sales of SSRIs and changes ... Safer and Zito concluded that “ available ecological evidence does not support an inverse temporal relationshipbetween rates of completed suicide and SSRI utilization” [[11], p 274], and “There ... regulatory actions to restrict prescribing SSRIs to young people internationally [5] Several published studies in favour of an inverse relationshipbetween sales or use of antidepressants and suicide...
... more likely to use anxiolytics andto suffer from anxiety-related disorders Conversely, individuals who tend to act impulsively are more likely to use substances such as cocaine andto suffer psychiatric ... likelihood of experiencing psychiatric symptoms-namely anxiety and depression, and that GAD symptoms appear to be a unique predictor among psychiatric symptoms of current non-prescribed benzodiazepine ... and psychiatric symptoms, as well as possible development of interventions tailored specifically to addressing this relationship, could be beneficial to our understanding of psychopathology and...
... CCK and PYY levels are increased in critically ill patients [28-30] and that CCK and PYY are known to slow GE, the present study is the first to directly demonstrate a relationshipbetween GE and ... into the stomach To avoid sampling other than end-expiratory air, sampling was timed to the end-expiratory phase by observation of the patient and the time-flow curve on the ventilation monitor ... feedback during critical illness, the relationships between plasma CCK and PYY concentrations and GE in critical illness have hitherto not been evaluated This study was designed to examine the...
... of this study was to evaluate the muscle imbalance of hip abductor weakness and ITB tightness in LBP by investigating the relationshipbetween tightness of ITB and hip abductor muscle strength ... Churchill LivingstonTwomey LT, Taylor JR 1987, 253-278 11 Janda V: Muscle and back pain - Assessment and treatment of impaired movement patterns and motor recruitment Associated course to the 5th international ... hip and knee joints The examiner, standing behind the subject, with one hand, stabilized the pelvis and passively abducted and extended the upper leg with the knee flexed with the other hand...