... Provenance may have different genetic adaptation Land race • Introduced trees that are adapted to an environment after several generations • Advantage Natural selection helps land races adapt toa new ... cuttings Ortet The original plant from which a clone has been derived Ramet An individual member of a clone In breeding • Production of offspring by mating between closely related trees, usually ... environment • Disadvantage May not be from the best natural provenances or come from very small genetic base Family • Individuals with parents in common • Half-sib family One common mother, father unknown...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 Background Files with information on animal disease have a variety of applications at both the herd and national level, including monitoring the incidence ... and bias inrelationto monitoring of animal disease incidence on herd and national level, causal analysis on national level, as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria Monitoring of ... context That is, treatment data as an indicator of a certain disease manifestation may only be valid within the herd When veterinarians used standard treatment decisions and included population level...
... manufacturing (nonauto) Plastics manufacturing (auto) 26 Metal-related Metallurgical, metalworking, metal fabrication 64 75 Transportation Transportation 37 26 Cleaning/beauty care Beauty salon/hair ... Seating and Interior Trim Mfr Plastics Processing Machine Operators Minor sectors: Plastics manufacturing (nonauto) and Plastics manufacturing (auto) Exposure classification: low (1), moderate ... D, Watterson A, Reinhartz A, Gilberston M: Occupational histories of cancer patients ina Canadian cancer treatment centre and the generated hypothesis regarding breast cancer and farming Int...
... the R3 pair bound to L1 and L2 Turning a gene into an active state from a state of inactivation often involves binding of a single activator molecule to its site ina repressive chromatin structure ... chromatin with beads on a string into a higher-order structure requires a minimum spacing to be maintained between core particles Thus, nucleosome spacing and positioning appear to be correlated ... binding of proteins at singular sites in an array of densely packed and equally spaced nucleosomes can cause substantial decondensation and rearrangements in condensed chromatin regions, working...
... stream at Biological assays room temperature The lipid sample was placed ina closed cuvette, and the air above the sample was satur- 12 Stimulation of macrophages ated with water vapour to maintain ... mononuclear protocol Transient transfections were carried out in triplicells, and incubated at 37 °C cate and data given are the mean and standard deviation Antagonism Binding of monoclonal antibodies ... hydrocarmine, 100 UÆmL)1 penicillin, and 100 lgÆmL)1 streptomycin, bon chains, and can be calculated from the measured R, if and 4% heat-inactivated human serum type AB at 37 °C and an approximate...
... Russian Federation and Ukraine Yugoslavia includes Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro Age-specific incidence rates stratified by age at breast cancer diagnosis before and after age ... immigrants’ daughters, particularly among those whose parents were from low-risk areas, such as Asia and Latin America This is in agreement with studies on immigrants from Asia and Latin America in ... on breast cancer incidence and case fatality among large and growing immigrant populations and their daughters in Sweden and among native Swedes Materials and methods Database The cohort was built...
... equivalent ( D o , Play : ~ - & ) that can be associated in common toa part of the structure of the categories as in Fig.l, and then find appropriate translation equivalents in detail at the ... a conceptual category -obJ is Concepts Structure with Associated Information So we turn our standpoint and take natural categories of nouns (concepts) as a base and associate to it through case ... indepndently from target language expression (2) To each noun ina given conceptual category, ,numbers of associated pairs of verb and its translation equivalent are generally small and can easily be found...
... need to invest if they want to maintain a sense of meaningfulness: feelings, interpersonal relationships, employment and existential value Health care professionals could facilitate meaningfulness ... carrying out a conversation and had been residing in the NHs for at least months We defined mentally intact as having a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) ≤ 0.5 [22], which was assessed by trained nurses ... Norway were potential participants We collected data between 15 January 2004 and 31 May 2005 Our sampling frame included all residents who were ≥ 65 years, mentally intact and capable of carrying...
... 6.7 years Age at baseline was 17–30 years The overall annual decline in FEV1 was 11.1 ml Continuing smoking was associated with increased loss in FEV1 and atopy in smokers further increased the ... ever-welding Danish metal workers N Welders Mild steel Stainless steel Alloyed steel Aluminum All particulates manual metal arc (MMA) metal active gas (MAG) manual metal arc (MMA) tungsten inert gas ... Medicine and Toxicology 2008, 3:6 References 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Saito H, Ojima J, Takaya M, Iwasaki T, Hisanaga N, Tanaka S, Arito H: Laboratory measurement of hazardous...
... Hagberg M, Ekenvall L, Futatsuka M, Harrison J, Nasu Y, Welsh C, Yamada S, Yoshida M: Clinical and laboratory diagnostics of vascular symptoms induced by hand-arm vibration In Proceedings Stockholm ... study, was the examining physician at the baseline and the follow ups, participated and contributed substantial in the analysis and in the interpretation of data Acknowledgements This research was ... participated and contributed substantial in the analysis and in the interpretation of data, RL discussed and con- Table 2: Hand-arm vibration exposure inrelationto prospective white fingers Variable...
... neurological symptoms [6] However, ina 17-year prospective study of industrial workers, Nathan et al.[7] reported that workplace factors, including managing vibratory tools, appeared to bear an uncertain ... the statistical analysis and the interpretation of data AJ discussed and contributed to the manuscript, participated and contributed substantially to the analysis and interpretation of data BGW ... manuscript, designed the study, was the examining physician at the baseline and the follow ups, participated and contributed substantially to the analysis and interpretation of data MH initiated...
... participated in the operational research, which was approved by all affiliated institutional review boards We obtained written informed assent from minors aged 13 to 17 years, and read an informational ... grow up toa certain age They will have to be told when they have a sense of understanding and wisdom giving such information toa child can be fatal to him and at that moment, then, what will ... procedures to disclose during participation in the operational research While waiting for formative study results, we took a conservative approach to informing and obtaining assent from children who participated...
... OECD: Maintaining propriety in an Aging Society Paris 1998 Resnikoff S, Pascolini D, Etya'ale D, Kocur I, Pararajasegaram R, Pokharel G, Mariotti S: Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002 ... was supported by an unrestricted grant from Alcon Laboratories SA, Rueil-Malmaison, France, was conducted according to local laws, and was contracted to Cemka, Bourg-la-Reine, France Alcon France ... geographical area were available During the 1999 national census a filtering survey called "Everyday Life and Health" was added A total of 2,275 geographical areas were picked at random from...
... spruce natural forest in Nefcerka NNR 546 in Tatra National Park on the basis of 27 research plots of ares in size that were established in various stages of the natural forest developmental cycle ... developmental stage, this value was lower in the optimum stage Its minimum was reached at an altitude above 1,400 m: 0.371 ± 0.04 A stochastic character of this index could also be observed in the breakdown ... number of individuals per unit area with greater height differentiation having nearly a character of unnatural forest structure (Saniga 2007) In the complex mathematic formula of Jaehne and Dohrenbusch...
... tested depending on thinning intensities for radiata pine and maritime pine Pinus radiata Intensity of thinning First thinning Pinus pinaster Second thinning First thinning Second thinning % of trees ... study was to calculate the accumulation and the export of nutrients over time in Pinus pinaster (maritime pine) and Pinus radiata (radiata pine) stands under a range of silvicultural alternatives, ... Biomass equations for radiata pine and maritime pine recorded by Balboa et al [4] were usedin our simulations To fit these weighted biomass equations, a total of 54 radiata pine and 125 maritime...
... was 12.0 °C and mean annual rainfall was 1586 mm [38] The temperature data were extrapolated to the field site assuming a wet adiabatic lapse rate and rainfall was adjusted orographically based ... (f.) Poole and Pinus contorta Douglas ex Loudon spp contorta at alpine and subalpine altitudes, in: Waring R.H (Ed.), Carbon Uptake and Allocation in Subalpine Ecosystems as a Key to Management, ... daily values are obtained using Gaussian integration following Gourdriaan and van Laar [16] Photosynthesis, A, for sunlit and shaded foliage in each layer is calculated as the minimum of the rates...
... terminal and the remainder of the stem were determined, as well as DW and leaf area (LA) of leaves of current terminal, proleptic and sylleptic branches Leaf areas of large, representative samples ... were measured with a Lambda (LiCor Inc., U.S .A. ) leaf area meter Results and Discussion Significant clor!al differences in number of branches, branch length and diameter, and branch angles caused ... clones beginning (Scarascia-Mugnozza et aL, 1989) Conclusion Data on other growth determinants (canopy density, rates of photosynthesis and respiration, patterns of translocation and growth analysis)...
... clinical characteristics (n = 51) VARIABLE SEX Females Males FACIAL PATTERN Brachyfacial Females Males Mesofacial Females Males Dolychofacial Females Males VERT INDEX Brachyfacial Mesofacial ... symphysis area had the highest mandibular deformation There is a lack of data from Latin American populations, and no other indexed paper evaluated both occlusal force and mandibular deformation inrelation ... calculated by subtracting the intermolar distance at O position from R position A single calibrated examiner, who was blind to occlusal force values and cephalometric data, performed all linear measurements...
... FV intake was found (Table 4) This indicates that the increasing SES disparity in changes in FV intake over time could partly be explained by an increasing SES disparity in accessibility and preferences ... +(bmod2*SEamod2)) An examination of the residuals did not reveal unacceptable departures from normality Since interaction terms have less power, p values, as an indicator of the significance, of interaction ... study, compared to Bere et al [19] may be explained by the methods usedto assess FV intake In the study referred to above, a 24-h recall was usedto assess FV intake in order to assess the effect...