use of large animal models for cardiac electrophysiology studies

... model for animal i is y i = X i b + Z ia + Wih + i (1) where y i = (y i,1 y i, m )’ is a vector of phenotypic values of animal i for m traits, b is a vector of fixed effects, a is a vector of ... 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 ... http://(http://www.gsejournal.org/content/42/1/26) Page of 13 Heritabilities of simulated traits were h1 = 0.43 and = 0.53 , respectively For each animal i, li was for BN-∞ or generated from Gamma(ν/2, ν/2) for BSt - ν with ν = 4, 12 Offspring...

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... number of individuali for the rth trait r j equation number of the sire ofi or its sire group (if base sire) for trait r r k equation number of the dam ofi or its dam group (if base dam) for trait ... simple method for computing the inverse of a numerator matrix used in the prediction of breeding values Biometrics 32, 69-84 Henderson CR (1984) Applications of Linear Models in Animal Breeding ... animal 2, from breed I, and animal from breed L Individuals and are the parents of (purebred I), and and are parents of (an Fl male) Finally, the F2 animal is the offspring of and 6, the latter being...

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... case of an animal model, making very restrictive supositions For continuously distributed traits, the use of an animal model is currently the state of the art for genetic evaluation of breeding animals ... continuously distributed traits the use of an animal model is the state of the art for the genetic evaluation of breeding animals A logical step would be to use an animal model as well to describe ... even the ranking of breeding animals may depend on the model type chosen The result that the use of equivalent sire and animal models for the underlying variable and the use of the same estimation...

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... reporting of laboratory CPR research A statement for healthcare professionals from a Task Force of the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of ... protocol strongly predicted the use of therapeutic hypothermia [15].These results suggest that strategies are required to increase the use of induced hypothermia for cardiac arrest survivors We hypothesize ... because of the large scope and size of our study; for practical reasons, it would be difficult to deliver the intervention simultaneously to all hospitals Finally, a stepped wedge design offers...

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... of the data set used in the multibreed analysis, including several useful features for evaluating data quality for the estimation of (co)variance components within maternal animal models an animal ... elements and inverse of a large numerator relationship matrix Biometrics 1976, 32:949-956 39 Mrode RA: Linear models for the prediction of animal breeding values Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CAB ... GHz, 3.11 GB of RAM) processor, at a rate of 0.11 second per cycle The numerical values used to initialize the scale parameters and the degrees of belief for the prior distributions of all (co)variance...

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... patterns, bioinformatics is used here for this type of analysis of complex systems Bioinformatics refers to the extraction of biological information from genomic sequence and the reconciliation of multiple ... development of an information base on genetic, cellular, and molecular levels is now a prerequisite for the use of plants or plant cell cultures for biotechnological applications for the following ... elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, and the identification of end-products The complete genetic makeup of an organism has been generated in the plant sciences as well Because of the success of large- scale...

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... Pseudohypericin, Hyperforin) in St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) Hypericum, an extract of the flower of St John’s wort, has been used for the treatment of depression for centuries (Mischoulon, ... trials 11 Use of Selected Medicinal Herbs for Chemoprevention 259 11.2.1.10 Studies on Novel and Wild Vaccinium Species Only a small part of the wild plant flora has been tested for any kind of bioactivity ... benefits for patients afflicted with early stages of Parkinson’s disease? This is 11 Use of Selected Medicinal Herbs for Chemoprevention 263 remarkable in light of the fact that manifold studies...

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... and prefixes In the next example the suffixation of the reflexive (−l at) forces the use of the active person with prefixes of the voice medium class because the agent is affected by the action Example ... we must enlarge the lexicon size The resulting grammar, althought capable of modeling the morphology of the toba, would not work effectively The effectiveness of a grammar is a measure of their ... consideration the optative posterior aglutination of reflexive and reciprocal suffixes wich forces the use of medium voice person prefix From the third person is also formed the third person indefinite actor...

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... too few offer strategies for meeting the needs of poor and lower-income people for financial services This paper reviews the experiences of various countries that have made use of one of the few ... spiral of loss of revenues to the posts, which forced the closing of 65 per cent of Finland’s post offices between 1990 and 1995, following the first large- scale fee reduction in 1990 The number of ... similar use of fax machines in Morocco and the United Republic of Tanzania points to the value of establishing mechanisms for fostering the exchange of practical experience in the use of suitable...

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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 ... experiment we tested the effect of adding a small amount of supervision: augmenting the large amount of unannotated data we use for unsupervised learning with a small amount of annotated data There are ... segmentation models in particular domains Pasula et al (2002) performs limited unsupervised segmentation of bibliographic citations as a small part of a larger probabilistic model of identity...

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... osteotomy of the lower tibia for the deformity (D) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008, 3:13 Angular deformities not remodel and are often ... U-test for quantitative data of the term of bone consolidation and leg-length discrepancy, and using Fisher's exact test for qualitative data of the existence of ankle pain A p value of less ... one was for the initial trial of VFG, and the other was for the second trial of VFG after failure of bone consolidation in ipsilateral VFG Patients The mean age of the patients at the time of VFG...

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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 ... paper, we also consider pole-zero LP models For analyzing the LP performance for tonal input signals, it will be useful to consider the radial representation of G(z): G(z) = = b0 Q l=1 − ρl e jζl...

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... order can be used because of the larger feature set Preliminary experimental results indicated that a model order of 24 was the optimal order for the proposed feature set given models of orders ... changes in the spectrum because of the exponent term α Therefore, although these features quantify the same type of information, their performance may be different for speech signals 2.1 Subband ... source information can be useful for speaker recognition These concerns motivated the use of features that can complement the traditional vocal tract features for a better characterization of the...

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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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... conditions and could be used as a reliable method for logging changes in plant water status The use of this methodology permits the detection of stresses caused by the presence of pathogens that affect ... growth was 1.57 mm for control plants, 1.44 mm for H mediterraneuminoculated plants and -0.32 mm for those inoculated with B stevensii The growth rate of the stem diameter of the non-inoculated ... sensitivity of LVDT sensors in detecting the real water status of the plant The micrometric measurement of shrinkage and swelling of stem diameter seems to be a sensitive indicator of plant response...

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... of the plant of particular interest for ontogenetic studies; and (ii) to have a more accurate definition of the state or the development stage of organs and tissues for sampling, especially for ... number of buds on September (table II) The date of floral transformation of some of the buds in these radiographs was estimated as being the same as on the excised shoots For the population of buds ... appeared, because of the small doses of radiation accumulated (25 rads for seems h of exposure which represents about 12 to the LD about , 50 20 000 rads for seeds, or to the doses used to induce...

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... univariate systems: DIFFERENT MODELS FOR DIFFERENT TRAITS A third requirement for the applicability of the canonical transformation is the use of the same model for each trait Again, several ... BLUP school handbook In: Use of Mixed Models for Prediction and for Estimation of (Co)variance Components, 5-7 February 1984, Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, Univ of New England, New South ... the transformed &dquo;,, Q animal m Finally: scale, the Q on = ((aa Q ) ¡ and Q- the transformed scale at iteration but we (k) Q and R Partition vector of observations for animal m vector of fixed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... validation of the genetic model used for the MC simulations 4.1 Effect of number of loci Table I presents the values of RV[30] provided by the three models when ] [30 decreasing the number of loci ... number of effective loci was of greater concern than the real number of loci This point is also of great concern in this study Indeed, results of molecular genetics indicate, for most of the ... influence of a mixed heredity, i.e a small number of genes with large effects and a large number of genes with small effects But this kind of genome structure is not easy to integrate in analytical models...

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... grounds of Jinja Hospital and is the largest provider of ART in the area In September, 2004, TASO began providing ART as part of HIV care Registered clients were asked to come forward for screening ... support of clinical staff can vary and the time pressures are great There have been no studies published examining the importance of testing plasma viral load for assessing patients for ART eligibility ... large numbers in need of treatment would not be considered on the basis of clinical staging [8] The Rakai study used physicians to stage patients, working in a research setting The accuracy of...

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