... adaptation and changes in internal value systems which have lead to a response shift, particularly in regard to reporting their health -related quality of life at the beginning in comparison to the ... article as: McPhail and Haines, Response shift, recall bias andtheireffect on measuring change in health -related quality of life amongst older hospital patients Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... of change in their health -related quality of life[16] No investigation has been made to examine the potential impact of response shift and recall bias simultaneously This study aims to investigate...
... velocity significantly decreases Dt and Sa The effects of pull and heat are very similar and not as significant as the effect of velocity Delay and pressure are factors to change the taper length of ... measured Figures 3, 4, 5, and show correlations between pulling parameters and Dt and Sa As it can be seen from Figures 3, 4, 5, and 7, velocity has the most significant effect A small increase ... magnifications, and tilting angles have been used to reconstruct every pipette’s tip with maximum disparity and highest lateral and vertical resolution Such a reconstruction could be expected to have...
... bases to a standard cast was measured to determine if there were any statistical significant differences in the fit that could be attributed to the differences in curing methods and the brands ... Several investigators have evaluated the effect of water on the bond strength of acrylic materials and demonstrated that absorbed water can have a detrimental effect on bond strength to acrylic resin ... switched off and left for 15 It was then boiled again for 20 and then switched off let it to cool down slowly Specimen was taken out from mould and the excess margins were polished by the sandpaper...
... set: 1) Generations and of line 1, were used to observe the effect of using closely related animals in the test and reference populations; 2) Generations and of line 1, were used to test divergent ... loci to explain different amounts of variation, with only a small number of loci having an effectand many loci having no effect [1] Therefore, each of these methods is expected to be suited to ... sequence) Sixty thousand SNP markers and 5,000 SNP markers were randomly selected from all SNP in the genome sequence and these markers were used in the 60K and 5K analyses respectively To give the simulation...
... between 0.1 and 0.4 V and two small current peaks near -0.1 and 0.6 V, respectively The peak near -0.1 V is attributed to the adsorption and desorption of hydrogen, which is similar to that in ... 53° and 54° is attributed to the diffraction peak of SnO face (211), which is the main composition of the ITO glass At the early stage, the well-defined peaks around 40° and 47° are observed and ... respectively, attributed to the diffraction peaks of Pd crystal faces (111) and (200); as the cycles increase, the peaks around 68° and 83° appear, which could be indexed to the (220) and (311), respectively...
... 78.7.6%, and 95.1% for EFB, SP, SS, PY, BY, and TSW, respectively (Table 3) Significant positive phenotypic and genetic correlations between EFB and SP and between yield and silique traits (SP and ... yield -related traits, and allelic variation at the promoter and CDS of BnA7.SUT1 correlated with expression pattern and phenotype Polymorphisms at the promoter and CDS regions with an effect ... major contributor to apical dominance in maize and 16 regulates lateral branching in rice [54, 55] Moreover, GS3 and Ghd7 show significant effects on grain size and multiple yield -related traits...
... MMP2, MMP3, and MMP9), growth factors and growth factor receptors (HGF, TGFB1, TGFB2, and MET), collagens (COL1A1 and COL2A1), and proteoglycans (LUM).109 Mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis 19 as ... migrated to Singapore at an early age and those who preferred to be and were interviewed in English were more likely to be myopic than their counterparts Myopic eyes were less likely to have AMD and ... Aim 3: To assess the influence of factors relatedto migration and acculturation on myopia and AL in migrant Indians in Singapore Aim 4: To investigate the associations of refractive errors and...
... to almost perfect intra- and intergrader agreements (0.901 to 0.925 and 0.718 to 0.836, respectively) as well as almost perfect to perfect intra- and intervisit repeatability (0.976 to 1.00 and ... the peripheral end and tapering to a point towards the pupillary end, with a minimum width and length of 20 and 50 pixels respectively, as measured from our standardized photographs (described ... were viewed and graded in random order, with the grader masked to the subject’s identity To evaluate the intragrader and intergrader agreement, 40 iris photographs were selected randomly for...
... BactoTM yeast extract (Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA), 0.1% tryptone (Oxoid, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK) and 0.2% sucrose (TYS medium) in an orbital shaker Oxidative stresses ... Bacterial Stress Responses (Storz, G & Hengge-Aronis, R, eds), pp 47–59 ASM Press, Washington, DC Touati D (2000) Iron andoxidativestress in bacteria Arch Biochem Biophys 373, 1–6 Storz G & ... detail and could play a key role in the detoxification processes In this study we examined the role of Bcp2 in order to increase the knowledge of the enzymatic activity involved in the oxidative stress...
... of aminoand organic acids and, consequently, a lower input to the repair processes at the end of the season The total phenol content is reported to increase in response to O3 [8, 32] and phenolic ... from carbon skeletons provided by the PEPC, which still had a high activity Only a few studies have measured the response of photorespiration tooxidativestressand contradictory results have ... The cumulative oxidativestress was too large and possibly exceeded the capacity for detoxication and repair of the neoformed ush The defensive capacity of these neoformed ush seems to collapse...
... (IAA) is believed to provide the stimulus for vessel growth (Longman and Coutts, 1974), and has been shown to produce earlywood vessels with larger lumen areas in ash (Doley and Leyton, 1968) The ... early and late flushing trees (P > 0.0001) which accounted for almost 20% of all variation Means and standard errors for vessel areas for early and late flushing trees were 67 134 ± 090 μm and ... design Investigations into the association between the progress of flushing and vessel size were undertaken on 20 early and 20 late flushing trees to indigenous Q petraea stored coppice at Bagley...
... response to arsenic exposure have yet to be characterized Atherosclerosis is brought about by continuous oxidativestressto artery walls, thereby leading to the concept that inflammation and endogenous ... exposed to an environmental toxin such as arsenic Arsenic is an oxidant producer and a strong stimulus of HO-1 expression in cell cultures as a part of the cellular response tooxidativestressto ... pressure, and diastolic blood pressure were measured according to standard protocols Hypertension was defined as (1) an average systolic blood pressure of ≥ 140 mmHg, (2) an average diastolic blood...
... chromatography; lane 5, purified protein after desalting The isoQC protein corresponds to a band migrating between 50 and 70 kDa The deglycosylation causes a shift to 37 kDa (lane 6) The upper band ... tendency to aggregation and are, therefore, difficult to express The isolation of the isoQC protein represents a basis for structural investigations and drug candidate profiling Materials and methods ... applied to the TXRF quartz glass sample support and dried under IR radiation Afterwards, lL of diluted Se aqueous standard solution (internal standard; Sigma-Aldrich) was added to each sample and...
... Brown, and Dr David Booth, for their support and advice I would like to acknowledge the support I received from my family I would like to thank my mother Maggy and my father Samir for their love and ... Waterhouse & Touche Ross In 1989, Ernst and Whinney merged with Arthur Young to become Ernst and Young and Deloitte, Haskins & Sells merged with Touche Ross to become Deloitte & Touche From 1989, ... theory The auditor’s role represented as an agent and the stockholders of clients firms are their principals Auditors are expected to lobby for rules which benefit their clients and, in the process,...
... entrance slit of a 50-cm Acton monochromator (Princeton Instruments, Trenton, NJ, USA) The detection was carried out using a Princeton Instrument photomultiplier tube to a photon counter All the spectra ... attention due to its control of size-selected nanoparticles [9] The novel technique combines plasma sputtering and gas aggregation to produce nanoclusters from a few atoms to a few thousand atoms The ... Gaussians, which correspond to the emission at different wavelengths According to the bulk band structure studies, these emissions could be relatedto the transition between L1 and Gamma1 This is because...
... entrance slit of a 50-cm Acton monochromator (Princeton Instruments, Trenton, NJ, USA) The detection was carried out using a Princeton Instrument photomultiplier tube to a photon counter All the spectra ... attention due to its control of size-selected nanoparticles [9] The novel technique combines plasma sputtering and gas aggregation to produce nanoclusters from a few atoms to a few thousand atoms The ... Gaussians, which correspond to the emission at different wavelengths According to the bulk band structure studies, these emissions could be relatedto the transition between L1 and Gamma1 This is because...
... of carbon, phosphate and nitrogen between the host fungi and bacteria According to Bader-El-Din and Moawad (1998), the dual inoculation of AM and Rhizobium had a synergistic effect on nodulation, ... rhizosphere has led to dual or co-inoculation of crops with both AM fungi and other rhizosphere microorganisms By virtue of their interdependent and synergistic effects on P and N uptake, interactions ... mosseae, G fasciculatum), Acaulospora, Sclerocystis and Gigaspora were also isolated and mixed together to prepare a mixed AM inoculum Rhizobium sp and Trichoderma viride were also isolated from the...
... "annotated EST" (49.7%), and subdivided into 18 subcategories as shown larity of these 19 sequences with haustoria-specific ESTs makes them likely candidates to encode potential effectors or avirulence ... resistance may prove to be effective in the field for only a short time due to the adaptation of the fungus to overcome plant defenses [10] Consequently, unraveling and understanding the mechanisms ... gene candidates is a means to correlate their position with known QTL involved in disease resistance "Unisequence", "singleton", "contig = 2", and "contig>2" columns represent the number of total...