the methodological and epistemological question the perspective of molecular biology

genetics and the logic of evolution - kenneth m. weiss

Ngày tải lên : 08/04/2014, 13:05

... of the challenges of survival, and in that and other ways the living world continually replays the general principles of evolution We ﬁnd regularities, and these have led to a formal theory of ... NATURAL SELECTION AND THE SPECIES QUESTION One of the central concerns in the early stages of systematic professional biology in the late 18th and early 19th century was the “species question, ” that ... it is and where it might apply Biology is forced to guess at the particulars of the evolution of traits and organisms because of millions of years of unobserved history that lies behind them Natural...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Population genetics and the Cretaceous extinction " potx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:22

... concurrence of the outcome of this research and the theoretical IMURA conclusions of K et al (1963) on the importance of mutation load with selection that gave the motivation for the written ... population size explain these enigmas The theoretical base was offered by the pioneering research of Kttotuxn et al (1963) and K IMURA (1963, 1983) on the importance of mutation and drift on evolution ... extinct on land, leaving a gordian knot of intriguing enigmas of which the most debated are : a) b) TINE, The extinction of ammonites which The vanishing were highly diversified of the dinosaurs...

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Báo cáo y học: "Bone morphogenetic proteins, genetics and the pathophysiology of primary pulmonary hypertension" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 18:20

... principally on the significance of these findings in the context of our current understanding of BMP receptor biology, and relate the data to our knowledge of inheritance patterns and disease pathophysiology ... includes the three mammalian TGF-β isoforms, the activins and inhibins, and over 30 members of the BMP subfamily [7,8] Unlike the mammalian TGF-β isoforms, BMPs are secreted in an active form and, ... mutations in the BMPR-II gene have been described in both FPPH and sporadic PPH [2–5] These span the entire open reading frame of the BMPR-II gene, with the exception of exons 5, 10 and 13 The mutations...

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genetics and human behaviour the ethical context - nuffield council

Ngày tải lên : 08/04/2014, 12:43

... understanding of the Report The third part of the Report examines the ethical, legal and policy issues and offers a series of conclusions and recommendations Chapter 12 begins by discussing whether ... individuals and based on freedom of choice Other important issues include the protection of the privacy and confidentiality of personal genetic information, and the role of education and the media ... rigorous and prior assessment of the potential risks and benefits pertaining thereto and in accordance with any other requirement of national law'.4 The Clothier Report on the ethics of gene therapy...

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Introduction - recent debates in maternal–fetal medicine – what are the ethical questions

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 08:20

... technology-related questions are also increasingly relevant to everyday practice, however, is the theme of the second section of the book The impact of new technologies and new diseases The questions ... be the outcome Alderson does, however, acknowledge the advantages of prenatal testing and termination when there is no other means of avoiding intolerable suVering on the part of the child and ... eVects of lying within the family, drawing on Kantian arguments Finally, the validity of the arguments both for and against anonymity are considered, and the implications of changes in the practice...

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the importance and effective of the ethical principles within an organization (business) to curb fraudulent

Ngày tải lên : 13/03/2014, 14:20

... codes, making them an important part of the landscape of the company The increasing relevance of the cost regardless of business ethics is recorded Emphasis is placed on the importance of stressing ... management and use of property in the original project manager of several ministries and local Through the inspection, the state audit process and the proposal were withdrawn and the State budget ... development and delivery of employee training Other specifications in the contract also address the following issues:  the quality and style of presentation of work;  the level of contractor...

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Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 06:20

... plunging the world into further risks of war? These questions raise the issue of whether the pursuit of profit or power is compatible with quality in the media, and this in turn raises the question of ... many of the problems that contribute to the world’s difficulties It is another cliché that the question of the relations of production has been replaced by the question of the relations of information ... addition to the laws themselves there is the problem of a judiciary generally unsympathetic to the ideas of a free press and freedom of information Ethics and politics of the media and firmly...

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the genetics and biology of sex determination - novartis foundation

Ngày tải lên : 08/04/2014, 13:09

... either the HMG box or the C-terminal activation domain On the other hand, the extent of non-synonymous versus synonymous changes in the non-box regions of SRY, as well as the non-uniform rate of ... di¡erentiation of the testis as they participate with the Sertoli cells to form the epithelial testis LOVELL-BADGE ET AL cords The endothelial cells contribute to the characteristic vasculature of the testis, ... to support the more rapid growth of the testis, compared to the ovary, and to allow e⁄cient export of testosterone, INSL3 and AMH, the three factors that masculinize the remainder of the embryo...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Genetics of oak species and the spectre of global climate change" doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 19:21

... for the maintenance of seedbanks and provenance tests past the tenure of the scientists who initiated them Howard Kriebel provided cases in point With the exception of his provenance test of red ... grow at the southern limit of their range Therefore,I expect widespread forest decline throughout the worse range It is likely that some trees will survive The great genic diversity of most of our ... (Quercus rubra L), there were only other old, oak provenance tests in the United States; Scott Pauley established a test of northern red oak and Roland Schoenike established a test of southern red oak...

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Báo cáo y học: "Postictal psychosis: presymptomatic risk factors and the need for further investigation of genetics and pharmacotherapy" doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 21:20

... integration: I Symmetry and convergence of the corticocortical connections of the left and the right principal sulcus (PS) and the left and the right supplementary motor area (SMA) in the rhesus monkey ... [10,11] While there is a variation in the age of onset of epilepsy, there is a trend toward later onset epilepsy and a duration of to 10 years between the onset of chronic epilepsy and PIP [9,11] ... knowledge of the etiology of psychosis, a component of a Todd's phenomenon may not be entirely excluded By considering the generally common clinical features of PIP, and calling on studies of the pathophysiology...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Population genetics of the metabolically related Adh, Gpdh and Tpi polymorphisms in Drosophila melanogaster : II. Temporal and Spatial Variation in an Orchard Population Karen M. NIELSEN A.A. HOFFMANN S.W. McKECHNIE" potx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:23

... BURNS, 1981) and ultimately the phenotype and fitness of individuals The study of metabolically related enzymes has likely potential in detecting and understanding epistasis and the forces which ... expectations, and the number of cases of heterozygote deficiency was as expected by chance (tabl 3) Thus, the genotypic data at the Gp locus, and the allelic data at the Tpi h d and Adh loci, ... a greater understanding of how selection might work on such loci and of the causal basis behind environmental correlations is required The presence of nonrandom association of the alleles at all...

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báo cáo khoa học: "BRAD, the genetics and genomics database for Brassica plants" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 11:21

... Moving the cursor over the ID of a gene expands the functional annotations of A thaliana genes and the detailed supporting information of synteny relationships of B rapa genes to that of A thaliana ... packed, and only the first gene of the tandem array is listed (AT4G23990) while the others can be obtained by clicking ‘tandem’ The next three columns show genes from the subgenomes, LF, MF1 and ... contributions XW and FC conceived the study FC processed the data and developed the database FC prepared the manuscript, XW and JW improved the manuscript JW tested the web application and tools and provided...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a comparative study of the ethical reasoning of physicians and the general public" pot

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 10:20

... during the Autumn of 2004 and included a multidisciplinary group of doctors (112 neurosurgeons and 298 intensive care doctors) and a random sample of the adult population (n = 989) of the county of ... experience of the neurosurgeon' and 'the [lack of] quality of life'; the general public gave priority to the first argument, whereas the physicians stressed the latter Neither group was swayed by the ... unnecessary dispute and miscommunication, doctors must better understand the nature of the views held by the general public (and hence those of patients' relative), and their expectations and preferences...

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ASIA 2008 debates achievements and challenges for water resources development in Asia and the Pacific region ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 22:21

... basin-wide perspective, and due regard to environmental and social aspects The preparation of a v nc Left: Xaypaseuth Phomsoupha of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Lao PDR, and Nguyen Duc Lien of the ... view of the fact that nearly 30 per cent of all the RCC dams in the world are in Southeast Asia, and these include the great majority of the very high RCC dams Dr Jia’s presentation on the RCC ... using these technologies This helped to open up the market for schemes of less than MW and heads of less than 10 m, he concluded The brief discussion at the end of the session focused mainly on the...

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Báo cáo y học: " Advances in the genetics and epigenetics of gene regulation and human disease" pps

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 17:22

... generations of offspring He and his colleagues postulate that maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy may affect the establishment of CpG methylation and the life-long expression of metastable ... the sequence, the structure and the number of repeats play an important role in predisposing CpG islands to DNA methylation Furthermore, these features can also be used to predict the CpG methylation ... analysis of genes that are involved in cell-cycle control and cell-size regulation in Drosophila Using flow cytometry, Björklund and colleagues analyzed the RNAi-induced loss -of- function of 70% of the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Genetics and genomics converge on the human blood fluke" potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 21:20

... variation There is a wealth of variant phenotypes to be exploited in this way, and the identification of the genes responsible will provide molecular insight into the biology of the parasite, the immune ... the eggs Male and female F1 cercariae are then mixed and used to infect a hamster to produce the F2 Adapted from [17] mate, the fertilized eggs are shed in the feces of the infected hamster and ... cercariae can then be used to infect a hamster, in which they develop into adult worms (Figure 1) The sex of the parasite is determined before the cercarial stage, so the sex of all the cercariae...

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the virtual jirga the 2009 education policy and the medium of instruction debate in pakistan who is participating and what are the implications for balochistan

Ngày tải lên : 22/12/2014, 16:41

... time and space, the thesis has focused on the debate that came out of the publication of NEP, the important issues within the debate and the impact of the policy on Balochistan province 1.2 The ... in their mother tongue One of the goals of the Education Reforms (2001) and later NEP 2009 was, to lower the gender gap and improve the level of literacy across the country, while the quality of ... colonial domination on the one hand rapidly increase the use of English, while on the other hand the concerns about the preservation, promotion and future of the minority and regional languages...

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catanach and walker - 1999 - the international debate over mandatory auditor rotation - a conceptual research framework [mar]

Ngày tải lên : 06/01/2015, 19:40

... BCCI, and Levitt.10 This time, the profession commissioned two investigations (the Cadbury Committee and the McFarlane Report) to investigate the role of auditing in these scandals and the need ... including the adoption of a peer review program Nevertheless, critics of the profession continued to call for mandatory auditor rotation, standardization of fees, and other constraints on the auditor-client ... percent of the corporations and 93 percent of the auditors oppose compulsory audit rotation Furthermore, 76 percent of the companies and 87 percent of the partners not believe that mandatory...

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The Lost World of Adam and Eve Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate

Ngày tải lên : 08/06/2015, 17:26

... making any of those objects The seas are gathered, the dry land appears and the plants sprout This is the work of organization and ordering, not the work of manufacture The function of plant growth ... sider the scenario of Moses sitting down with the elders of the people on the eve of the tabernacle dedication at the foot of Sinai He is trying to help the Israelites understand the gravity of ... claim The creatures of the sea were in a liminal zone in the ancient Near East After all, the sea was the very embodiment of non-order Therefore, there would be questions about the functions of the...

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