the main objective of this study was to understand of genetic association between quantitative and qualitative traits and also to quantify effects of selection for one trait on others in safflower. the study took place in the experimental field of the faculty of agriculture, isfahan university of technology, isfahan, iran, in the 2001 and 2002. to find the best variable for selection to improve...

We will show that • the entropy for a random variable gives a lower bound on the number of bits needed per character for a binary coding • Huffman codes are optimal in the average number of bits used per character among binary codes • the average bits per character used by Huffman codes is close to the entropy of the underlying random variable • one can get arbitrarily close to the entropy of a...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To assess the cardiovascular risk associated with the presence of metabolic syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes. Patients and method. Prospective cohort study of patients with type 2 diabetes. The baseline presence of components of metabolic syndrome as defined by the World Health Organization was determined. The main dependent variable was a combination of cor...

A new data presentation is proposed in order to consider anomalous J/Ψ suppression in Pb + Pb collisions at P/A = 158 GeV/c. If the inclusive differential cross section with respect to a centrality variable is available, one can plot the yield of J/Ψ events per Pb–Pb collision as a function of an estimated squared impact parameter. Both quantities are raw experimental data and have a clear phys...

Introduction Asthma continues to be the leading serious chronic illness among children, responsible for 10 million lost school days each year and costing more than $12 billion per year. Asthma is not a series of episodic events over time, but a state of airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness that has variable manifestations within a given patient and between individuals. In this first of t...

IMPORTANCE Antibiotics are frequently and often inappropriately prescribed to patients in nursing homes. These antibiotics pose direct risks to recipients and indirect risks to others residing in the home. OBJECTIVE To examine whether living in a nursing home with high antibiotic use is associated with an increased risk of antibiotic-related adverse outcomes for individual residents. DESIGN...