living large — organisms and populations

... (kg) at birth (BW) and at 3, 10, 13, 17 and 22 weeks of age (W3, W10, W13, W17 and W22, respectively); average backfat thickness (mm) at 13, 17 and 22 weeks of age (ABT13, ABT17 and ABT22, respectively); ... standard F distribution The genome-wide suggestive and significant thresholds obtained using this approximate method were, respectively, 8.0, 4.7, 4.1 and 13.5, 6.1 and 5.5 for F1df , F3df and ... (d) Most likely position of QTL1 and QTL2, respectively (e) Estimates of additive (a) and dominance (d) effects of QTL1 and QTL2; s.e standard error (b) Growth and fatness QTL expression in pigs...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... example Large White and Meishan [5], wild boar and Large White [1], or Berkshire and Yorkshire [25] This approach is powerful, since all F1 animals are expected to be heterozygous for many markers and ... (generation 1), his sons and daughters (generation 2, referred to as parents below), and their sons and daughters (generation 3) The national database was used to identify large LR and LW purebred halfsib ... heterozygous founders and consequently informative families for QTL) and by the relatively small size of these families Very large half-sib structures are indeed scarce in LW and LR populations, since...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... really_big.log The following command is one, cp /dev/null really_big.log is another, and echo > really_big.log is yet another All of these commands overwrite a large file with nothing $ >really_big.log ... The code first defines the file in question and then checks whether it exists If it does exist, execution continues CHAPTER 40 ■ REMOVING LARGE FILES AND LOG ROLLING #!/bin/sh LOGFILE=./my.log ... main addition to this idea here is the cp -p command cp -p $LOGFILE ${LOGFILE}.0 > $LOGFILE fi This command preserves the original file’s ownership and time stamp for the new copy Thus the new copy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 08:51

... with meals, laundry services and general care; and Model C, a hospital home for the very disabled and frail, where assistance is provided for daily living activities and nursing care is available ... questionnaire, and asked about the running and routine of the home, the infIrmities of the residenL and their occupations The buildings were toured and notes taken on equipment, furnishings and toilet ... people, especially grandmothers, as young parents require nursing and care, and grandchildren will need to be cared for Polky suggestions An alternative approach to shelter and accommodation for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... science Planets are studied by a branch of physics—astronomy; populations of living organisms are studied by a branch of biology—population ecology And these two disciplines have little in common ... from rabbits, and humans come from humans living organisms not spontaneously generate So let’s consider the birth and death rate That is, let’s consider the average number of births and deaths per ... and Blackwell Publishers for permission to reproduce material from our articles (Colyvan and Ginzburg 2003a, 2003b) Material from chapters and originally appeared in Biology and Philosophy, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... C(DT w1 and DT w2 ) C(w1 CC DT w2 ) C(DT w2 and DT w1 ) C(w2 CC DT w1 ) C(DT h and DT w1 ) C(w1 CC DT h) C(DT h and DT w2 ) C(h CC DT w1 ) C( L - CTXTi w1 and w2 h) C(w1 CC w2 h) C(w1 and w2 h ... Clark, and Johan Bos 2007 Linguistically motivated large- scale NLP with C&C and Boxer In Proc ACL Demo and Poster Sessions, pages 33–36 Ido Dagan and Alan Itai 1990 Automatic processing of large ... chloride asbestos and chloride o amianto e o cloreto de polivinilo Italian: l’ asbesto e il polivinilcloruro w2 h and w1 w1 , and w2 h w1 and h w1 h w2 → the asbestos and the chloride of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... these bands represent intact core protein of aggrecan and V0 and/ or V1 splice-variants of versican [1] With time in culture, a distinct band at  300 kDa (indicated by asterisk) appeared, and remained ... iv and v) shows the proteoglycan core proteins released into the medium of explant cultures after and days in culture, respectively A number of distinct bands of over 250 kDa and a series of bands ... associated with the band ranging between 37 and 45 kDa This band corresponds to the decorin core protein; also present are small levels of biglycan core protein [1] A number of bands were also observed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... processes, for large public and private sector clients Dale Cooper is a member of the Standards Australia Technical Committee OB-007 that developed the Australian and New Zealand Standard for Risk ... Canterbury and based at the university Their support is gratefully acknowledged I continue to enjoy stimulating and often vigorous discussions with my colleagues on the Standards Australia and Standards ... Australia and Standards New Zealand Joint Technical Committee OB-007, the committee that continues to develop the Standard AS/NZS 4360 and associated handbooks that enlarge on its application While...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 03:02

... illustrate the makeup and history of organisms and parts of organisms for nonspecialist readers The following two passages appear in Nature—a journal intended for a wide scientific audience and in a work ... Mind Incarnate Lawrence A Shapiro, 2004 Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere Tim Lewens, 2004 Organisms and Artifacts Design in Nature and Elsewhere Tim Lewens A Bradford Book ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lewens, Tim Organisms and artifacts : design in nature and elsewhere / Tim Lewens p cm — (Life and mind) “A Bradford Book.” Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-262-12261-8...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46

... home-based groups and caregivers constituted the three strata Four health districts (two urban and two rural) were randomly selected from the list of 16 urban and rural districts (four urban and 12 rural) ... costs, and costs due to partial absenteeism, workday interruptions and supervision of employed caregivers [9] Direct non-medical costs will continue to grow as more and more people with HIV and ... endure stigma and psychological distress, and lack basic care-giving education [7] CHBC also imposes considerable costs on patients, their caregivers and families in terms of time, effort and commitment...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Zealand, the United States and Canada) and 48% of those in developing countries (i.e., Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia excluding Japan, and Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand) ... the one hand, and social disapproval and discrimination against PLHIV having children, on the other hand [4,6,7,38] As Gogna et al point out: [T]raditional gender roles and expectations and the ... Namibia and South Africa shows that, as for women more generally in these three countries and elsewhere, comprehensive and appropriate sexual and reproductive choice and rights, care and treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... differences among populations and water stress treatments (p < 0.001 and p < 0.05, respectively) The relationship between ontogenetic score and plant dry weight was different for each species and generally ... interaction) among populations (Mutke, in prep.) and of populations PR-LE (highly plastic according to [2, 17, 18]), PR-AR, PR-CP, PR-CC [1, 2], PH-NE and PH-AL (very plastic and relatively stable, ... represented by four populations We examined growth and morphology of seedlings of these four species grown under two water regimes and assessed the effect of water availability on growth rates and on the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... reduced third-year seedling GLD by 41 and 32% at RP and LC, respectively Large container-grown seedlings planted at RP had a larger third-year diameter than large bare-root stock; the effect was ... content, and nutrient availability Thirdly, we expected competition by non-crop vegetation to have the strongest impact on seedling growth and nutrition, for both the large containerized and bare-root ... between 1000 and 1100 mm and a mean annual temperature of 2.5 °C [50] Prior to harvest, both sites were mature stands composed mainly of balsam fir, white spruce [P glauca (Moench) Voss] and yellow...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... traits in Large White and French Landrace pig breeds Livest Prod Sci 45, 55-62 Brandt H (1987) Development and genetic aspects of feed intake in three breeds of pigs at German test stations and measures ... (1996) and the present one concern the genetic relationships between feed intake per day, eating time per day and rate of feed intake As previously reported by De Haer and Merks (1992) and Young and ... -0.73 and r -0.82 A when averaged over the two breeds), and, to a lesser extent, with daily feed intake A = (rp 0.41 and r 0.43), but daily feed intake and daily eating time were poorly 0.22 and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/112 community -living elderly men and women We hypothesised that there is a positive relationship between impaired mental health and risk of malnutrition and low BMI Methods Study ... categories) and the risk of malnutrition (combining medium and high risk) in 1558 elderly men and 1553 elderly women, The Tromsø Study aAdjusted for age, smoking, marital status and educational ... SCL-10 score and the risk of malnutrition (data not shown) Mental health and BMI We also assessed the relationship between various BMI categories and the proportion of individuals (men and women)...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... non-Normal Standard deviation or standard error? There is often a great deal of confusion between SDs and SEs (and, equivalently, between reference ranges and confidence intervals) The SD (and reference ... between mean – SD and mean + SD); (b) 95.4% of the distribution falls between mean – SD and mean + SD; (c) 99.7% of the distribution falls between mean – SD and mean + SD; and so on The properties ... falls between mean – SD and mean + SD; (c) 99.7% of the distribution falls between mean – SD and mean + SD; and (d) 95% of the distribution falls between mean – 1.96 SD and mean + 1.96 SD Now...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... Meishan · Large White and Large White · Meishan F1 hybrids and their parents ACL is a cytosolic enzyme that catalyses the formation of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and oxaloacetate from citrate and CoA, ... and three sows for each Meishan · Large White and Large White · Meishan hybrid and their parents i.e a total of 24 pigs were sampled Total RNA was isolated from the backfat of these 24 pigs and ... hybrids One band, designated as EST39 and visualized only in the Large White · Meishan and Meishan · Large White F1 hybrids, was isolated from the differential display gel (Fig 1A) and re-amplified...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... represented 10% of the Landrace sows and 40% of the Large White sows Landrace and Large White animals are used on breeding farms in Lower and Upper Austria, crossed with Large White animals on ... in the Large White and 22.3% in the Landrace database Landrace sows lived 92 days longer and completed 0.56 more parities on average, compared to Large White sows Standard deviations were large ... compared to gestation length and nursing period, with 16.0 ± 17.2 days in Large White and 14.0 ± 17.3 days in Landrace populations From the average values and standard deviations of these three...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... infertility and prostate cancer Male infertility is a widespread medical condition with large societal and emotional costs Since seminal fluid has important roles in spermatozoan survival and overall ... protein kinases and nine phosphatases The next largest groups of proteins are 55 transporter proteins and 51 structural molecules (each comprising almost 6% of the total) Even though the largest number ... proteinmass Peptidestoandname;IDof columnsanalyses Worksheet 2Mascot was AdditionalgichargenumberF ofpeptides withextracted from respecClick A (ppm); and consist and (columns signal LC-MS/MS and data analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:21