practical considerations of genetic rodent models for neurodegenerative diseases

... are of interest from the perspective of direct and maternal effects in an animal model, but the fitted models for GL and BW included genetic effects for sire and MGS, and some fractions of the genetic ... generated for each of the three true models Phenotypes of 50 progeny from each of 50 unrelated sires for two traits, yi = (yi, yi, 2)’ were simulated using equation (1) The vector of fixed effects ... or M, i and k for the trait of GL or BW and j for the model of BN or BSt Kendall rank correlations between posterior means of sire genetic effects obtained from the BN and BSt models were used...

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... Practical considerations in the European market for building and future-proofing robust, flexible FTTN infrastructures Leveraging the existing ducts In deploying fiber from the central office ... ducts running out a specified distance before some of the ducts branch out into other directions Therefore, it’s not one cable running in one duct to one group of cabinets Rather, it is multiple ducts ... achieve redundancy, as we’ll discover later in this paper Page  Practical considerations in the European market for building and future-proofing robust, flexible FTTN infrastructures Patch or splice?...

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... may not be for everyone (but may be more exciting for some than for others!) This document is intended to provide, to the best of our knowledge, an accurate picture of the life before and during ... missing the big picture of the process, as well of the outcome! For our case, it is true that we are still working for the degree, but after one year and a half in the program (as of December 2006), ... touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future No part of man’s nature or his institutions must lie...

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... for advertisements and from 49.7% to 66.3% for citations The complete learning curves for models of this form are shown in Figure We have tested training on more unannotated data; the slope of ... models, which can be viewed as field segmentation models occurring at the level of discourse They perform unsupervised learning of these models from sets of news articles which describe similar events ... experience with part -of- speech and grammar learning has shown, induction systems are quite capable of producing some uninterpretable mix of various levels and kinds of structure Therefore, if one is...

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... and inconsistency of tumor development, led to a shift towards implantation of neoplastic cells propagated in vitro [4] While the majority of these models involve the use of rodent glioma cells ... function of specific genes of interest and thus exploit defined genetic lesions to produce more biologically correct models of CNS cancers that result from activation and/or inactivation of endogenous ... by the use of germ line p53 inactivation alters immune system function in a number of significant ways in these animals, limiting the use of these models for evaluating the effect of anti-tumor...

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... permission for monitoring on their land Denied access and rejecting of test areas with >20% of forests accounted for a rejection rate of about 30% and resulted in a final selection of × 50 BINATS ... (0.39 km2) as performed in BINATS is mandatory for the evaluation of GMP cropping effects in terms of biodiversity Page of 12 The conception of a GMP monitoring program - selection of test areas, ... photographs for marking the exact location of the recorded habitat structures Field maps were digitised and stored in a GIS Methods of survey Results For practical reasons, we used a combination of a...

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... finite number of dominant frequency components In this way, the majority of audio signals is covered, except for the class of percussive sounds The performance of the different LP models described ... technique for LP of audio signals, see [12] and references therein In WLP, the input signal undergoes a nonuniform frequency transformation before a conventional LP is performed, with the aim of enhancing ... estimate for a noisy sum of sinusoids [22, 46] Example (high-order LP of synthetic audio signal) Performing a L/2 = 1024th-order LP of the noisy synthetic audio signal fragment defined before, using...

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... capacity for application of the rainfallrunoff models for flood forecasting, using observed rainfall from a network of rain gauges whose data can be transmitted to the forecast center, for the ... improvement of accuracy and extending the lead time for flood forecasting, inundation warning of Tra Khuc – Ve river basins 2.1 Study on extending the lead time of flood forecast Theoretical principle of ... inundation computation of downstream areas of Tra Khuc – Ve rivers 2.4 Combining flood forecasting and inundation warning for Tra Khuc and Ve river basins Scheme for connection of flood forecasting and...

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... of this model is derived from its lack of NK cells; therefore, the lack of innate immunity allows for the presentation of a susceptible model for the development of HIV-1 viremia as well as for ... suitable for a specific kind of experimental model Here, we focus on the development of each of these models for the study of human retroviral infection, i.e., with HIV-1 and HTLV-1 The comparison of ... Comparison of animal models for the study of retroviral infection The identification of HIV-1 as the causative agent of AIDS was followed only a year later by the recruitment of chimpanzees for the...

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... found for delta SOFA (range = 0.51 to 0.828) P values of HL-statistics ranged from 0.33 to 0.95 for total max SOFA and were all beneath 0.05, indicating poor fit, for delta SOFA and mean SOFA Performance ... derivatives of the cardiovascular component of SOFA did better than that of MODS [16] Performance of SOFA combined with other models and/or covariates Six studies (33%) evaluated SOFA combined ... competitive with severity of illness models limited to the first 24 hours of admission Performance of models based on sequential SOFA Page 11 of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Critical...

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... 8.5 Key features of the CM’s Statechart 253 8.6 Use of our generated concrete tests for bug detection 257 xii LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES xiii List of Figures 2-1 ... to hold for all implementations of the given system in general • Remodeling: For different object configurations (differing in the number of objects of various types), separate requirements models ... complex reactive systems is an important area of research Use of such models during the early phases of system development forms an easy and more sound basis of communication among stake-holders, system...

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... number of MFs and their types in each dimension [27] The limitation of this method is that the number of rules rises rapidly as the number of inputs (sensors) increases For example, if the number of ... structure of the FIS models through various experiments The optimal number of MFs was determined by assigning different numbers of MFs for the ANFIS-Grid model, and different values to the number of ... the structure of the ANFIS models described in the previous section to derive a thermal error compensation system With the purpose of evaluating the prediction performance of the models generated...

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... sum of correct profile positions (bits) minus the sum of incorrect bits in the generated profile Thus, the regression value was maximal for the true profile of a training compound and minimal for ... Interpretation of Predictors for Virtual Screening Introduction of a Methodology for Visualization and Graphical Interpretation of Bayesian Classification Models Visualization and Interpretation of Support ... of compound activity, the modeling of potency values, and the profiling of ligands against a panel of related targets Aside from the development of LBVS methods, understanding the resulting models...

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... body force and the specified traction in the reference configuration Ω0 , respectively The variational equation [7] for the weak form of the problem might be rewritten for the finite deformation ... capability of being immune from material instability of a isotropic Fung-type model [6], a novel Fung-type model (MF2) is proposed for treating the illconditioning problem of the MFH This model is formulated ... applications – spontaneous and other forms of bonding between components, Mater Sci Technol., 1989, vol 5, no 3, p 209–221 [3] Holzapfel, G A., Determination of material models for arterial walls from uniaxial...

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... [BAFF-R]) A broken line indicates stages of differentiation that can occur independently of BAFF The necessity of BAFF for the survival of established memory cells or of long-lived plasma cells is not ... APRIL and BAFF can form heterotrimers [17] and the extracellular domain of APRIL can form a hybrid molecule with the intracellular domain of TWEAK (TWE-PRIL; TNFSF12) as a result of alternative splicing ... in rodent autoimmunity models because intrinsic B cell hyperreactivity, the provision of excessive T cell help and the presence of inflammatory mediators might alter the normal dependence of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... application and acceptance of population models is the communication of the methodology and the complexity of the models Although parts of population models, e.g the simulation of developmental stages ... fields) Speed of detection of resources Number of nectar and pollen foragers Time and frequency of foraging trips Number and proportion of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults per season Life span of adults ... basis for ‘good modelling practise’ for models which are to be used for environmental decision making The proposed description of models following ODD or TRACE has a focus on the technical part of...

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... application and acceptance of population models is the communication of the methodology and the complexity of the models Although parts of population models, e.g the simulation of developmental stages ... fields) Speed of detection of resources Number of nectar and pollen foragers Time and frequency of foraging trips Number and proportion of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults per season Life span of adults ... basis for ‘good modelling practise’ for models which are to be used for environmental decision making The proposed description of models following ODD or TRACE has a focus on the technical part of...

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... application and acceptance of population models is the communication of the methodology and the complexity of the models Although parts of population models, e.g the simulation of developmental stages ... fields) Speed of detection of resources Number of nectar and pollen foragers Time and frequency of foraging trips Number and proportion of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults per season Life span of adults ... basis for ‘good modelling practise’ for models which are to be used for environmental decision making The proposed description of models following ODD or TRACE has a focus on the technical part of...

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... measure of connectedness Lalo6 (1993) introduced the concept of generalized coefficient of determination (CD), the CD of a linear combination of genetic values, and suggested a new definition of disconnectedness ... decreased; the enhancement of connectedness no longer compensated for the loss of information provided by the data Unlike the indices of connectedness, the use of criteria of precision led to optima ... Boichard D (1992) A criterion for measuring the degree of connectedness in linear models of genetic evaluation Genet Sel Evol 24, 315-330 Gomez-Raya L (1992) Prediction of genetic progress with different...

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... these models, the number of systems of equations to be solved is relatively reduced; however, the best linear unbiased predictors (BLUP) of the additive effects of the MQTL alleles and those of ... reduction of the size of the system of equations, although the sparseness in the coefficient matrix of the MME would be adversely affected With these models, the inverse covariance matrix of the ... model for analyses of data on multiple genetic markers Theor Appl Genet 83, 878-886 Henderson CR (1973) Sire evaluation and genetic trend In: Animal Breeding and Genetics Symposium in Honor of Dr...

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