... are passed along to animals that swallow them when they eat the plants; to animals that eat animals that eat plants; and to other animals, including humans, who eat both plants and animals Because ... of the Iranian plateau, and Central and East Asia.24 Camels may have been among those animals that practically domesticated themselves According to archeological evidence, by about 10,000 years ... crop.24 The last member of the Neolithic legume quartet is the faba or fava bean (Vicia faba) also known as a Windsor bean, a broad bean, and a “horse bean” (because it was also fed to animals) There...
... Software Installing an antivirus and antispyware software program and keeping it up to date is a critical step in protecting your computer Many types of antivirus and antispyware software can detect ... and install all available updates Enable automatic updates if your vendors offer it; that will ensure your software is always updated, and you won’t have to remember to it yourself Many operating ... daily, and vendors frequently make new signatures available, so antivirus software will be most effective if the signatures are up to date Many antivirus and antispyware programs offer automatic...
... was to clarify to what extent the spatial variation of environment a ects growth and adaptive traits in a provenance trial, and whether blocking can efficiently handle this variation MATERIALS AND ... farfara L and Salix caprea L., whereas the open patches in the centre are overgrown with clonally spreading grasses, mainly Calamagrostis arundinacea (L.) Roth As the area had been used as a forest ... used analysis of covariance with provenance as a categorical predictor and environmental variables as continuous covariates RESULTS As shown in Fig 1, the distributions of all environmental variables...
... loss, ataxia, paralysis of upgaze Severe staining, VC shift downward posterior cerebral artery branch 5.0 × 5.0 × 4.0 (an average of 4.7) Infratentorial > supratentorial Mild Female/ days 62 years ... three cases (Figure 1), supratentorial > infratentorial in two cases, supratentorial = infratentorial in three cases and infratentorial in two cases (Figure and Figure 3) Additionally, hydrocephalus ... patients [2,11,12] When a pineal region meningioma grows bilaterally to the tentorial plane and extends laterally, the large variation of the tentorial angle will result in a complicated anatomical...
... Natural variation of potato allene oxide synthase causes differential levels of jasmonates and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis Planta 2008, 228(2):293-306 Oberhagemann P, Chatot-Balandras C, ... RFLP maps based on a common set of clones reveal modes of chromosomal evolution in potato and tomato Genetics 1988, 120(4):1095-1103 Yamanaka S, Ikeda S, Imai A, Luan Y, Watanabe JA, Watanabe KN: ... occurrence of each marker are given in Additional file and on the SGN database [37] QTL dataset for meta-analysis Table Number of publications, maps and QTLs collected to perform meta-analysis No of...
... et al [19] and recombination rates were estimated accordingly This yielded a marker map flanking a total of 20.74 sex-averaged Morgans (Kosambi), with an average distance of 18 cM between adjacent ... are the offspring of 20 F1 boars mated on average to four females, and 45 F1 sows mated to an average of 1.8 males Average offspring per boar were 26.4 and per sow 11.7 Selection was not based on ... carcass traits (Tab I) A detailed description of the respective traits can be found in Hanset et al [9] Table I reports for each trait the number of F2 individuals with usable measurements, as...
... breast meat characteristics was carried out This failed to achieve convergence probably because of the high estimated genetic correlations between the C and H parameters and the a and b∗ parameters ... correlations between the usual criteria of meat quality (pH, reflectance, water-holding capacity) and carcass lean to fat ratio are moderate (up to ±0.25) Moreover, in this species, HAL and RN major ... to achieve convergence and later did not provide standard errors of the estimates As for the breast meat characteristics, the global analysis for the thigh meat characteristics failed to achieve...
... total of 410 QTL tests The aim of the analysis was to estimate, for each pair of traits, the proportion of QTL that a ected neither trait, one trait but not the other, both traits in the same ... P%, it was found that QTL predominantly only a ected one of the three, except QTL a ecting ASI that also had a small effect on P% and vice versa We used uncorrelated traits here so that a false positive ... without a change in protein or fat yield Protein synthesis would remain constant causing a change in the percentage of protein in the milk and also a small change in ASI QTL that a ect both ASI and...
... Sorensen and Waagepetersen [33] have proposed the use ofa Bayesian approach for canalisation analysis to better manage the model defined by San Cristobal-Gaudy et al [29] This Bayesian approach has ... environmental variability in mice 285 Table II Means of the posterior distribution of variance component estimates and genetic correlation (ρ) between mean and variance, using a Bayesian approach under ... same explanation for all the traits On the contrary, the observed trend for the ratio h2 estimated across generations (Fig 1), had i a negative slope regardless of the traits analysed This was...
... outstanding features of natural southern and northern populations of the species for these same characters MATERIALS AND METHODS A sample of 359 males and 259 females of Drosophila melanogasterwas ... Drosophila melanoto latitude, season, wing-loading Tantawy AO, Mallah GS (1961) Studies on natural population of Drosophila I Heat resistance and geographical variation in Drosophila melanogaster and D ... Genetic latitudinal adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster new discriminative biometrical traits between European and equatorial African populations Genet Res 30, 247-255 Gonzilez AM, Cabrera VM, Larruga...
... parents represented only 9% and 8% of the total number of animals, for strains A and B respectively, the reduced animal model (RAM) of (auaas and Pollak (1980) was used With RAM, all the equations ... multivariate analysis to a series of univariate analyses and consequently, drastically decreased computational costs These computational costs were also lowered by reducing the number of equations ... (ED)) Weight of hens at 40 wk of age (W was also included in the analysis ) 4o I P can be considered as being a combination of sexual maturity and early egg production ED was a measure of the shell...
... separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms of the Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a database system can ... simulates the actions ofa cleaner until a threshold number of clean segments is available again In each run the simulator was allowed to run until the write cost stabilized and all coldstart variance ... the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state of the data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved...
... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager is ... the cached data The kernel uses the pager_data_write call in response, just as when it initiates a cache replacement A data manager may restrict the use of cached data by issuing a pager_data_lock...
... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... the signal • Attenuation – A loss of signal strength • Multipath distortion – As a radio signal is transmitted, the electromagnetic waves spread out 24 Signal Strength (continued) 25 Radio Frequency ... (continued) Antennas • Transmit or receive an RF signal Multiple Access • Only a limited number of frequencies are available for radio transmission – Conserving the use of frequencies is important • Conserving...
... contained a core of Afro-Mediterranean race and spoke an Afroasiatic language Egyptian civilisation displayed many cultural and political patterns later to appear elsewhere in the continent, although ... empire was no more Vandal forces from Spain had invaded North Africa in 429, taken Carthage a decade later, and extended their power across the region sub-saharan africa Whether Carthage transmitted ... originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early as Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan may be distantly related to the fourth family, the Niger-Congo languages, which are spoken predominantly by...
... Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation Author details Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger ... safety) Materials and methods Stavanger HEMS The Stavanger HEMS is part of the national HEMS system of Norway, and its primary areas of operation are the mixed urban and rural districts of Rogaland ... Science Data Service approved the collection and recording of the study data Statistics Data were recorded into a database designed with File Maker (FileMaker Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) We used Table...
... There was no organized collection of data that could allow for a structured evaluation of the organizational changes It is evident that a well-planned evaluation of changes in the organizations, ... on performance Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54(6):689-695 Handbooks of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ambulance and emergency care services: A handbook for drawing up an alarm procedure ... several databases Approximately 40% of all emergency calls during the period 2002-2005 were available from the municipality-based databases The rest of the data could not be gathered since it was...