Social play and tolerance are positively correlated and playful signals are more freely expressed in egalitarian than in despotic species. Macaque species are organized along a continuum from intolerant to tolerant social systems and, for this reason, they are good models to test some hypotheses about the possible linkage between communication and tolerance. We compared facial playful communica...

INTRODUCTION At present there are no reliable non-traumatic and non- invasive methods to analyse the healing process and loosening status after total hip replacement. Therefore early as well as late loosening of prosthesis and interface component problems are difficult to be found or diagnosed at any time. METHODS In a cadaver study the potential application of Resonance Frequency Monitoring ...

Tropospheric ozone is one of six criteria pollutants regulated by the US EPA, and has been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints and adverse effects on vegetation and ecosystems. Regional photochemical models have been developed to study the impacts of emission reductions on ozone levels. The standard approach is to run the deterministic model under new emission levels and attribut...

Tropospheric ozone is one of six criteria pollutants regulated by the US EPA, and has been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints and adverse effects on vegetation and ecosystems. Regional photochemical models have been developed to study the impacts of emission reductions on ozone levels. The standard approach is to run the deterministic model under new emission levels and attribut...

Amplitude-weighted mean velocity from continuous wave (CW) Doppler spectra was used to measure aortic flow (QAo) and left ventricular mitral inflow (QLVin). These flows were used to quantify mitral regurgitation fraction: RFm = (QLVin-QAo).QLVin-1.100(%).QLVin was calculated from the diastolic time integral of amplitude-weighted mean velocity that was derived from CW spectra with the transducer...

A class of rifampin-resistant (rfm) mutations of Bacillus subtilis suppresses the temperature-sensitive sporulation of a fusidic acid-resistant mutant. FUS426, which has an altered elongation factor G. The rfm mutation suppressed only the sporulation defect caused by the elongation factor G mutation, but could not suppress other types of induced sporulation defects. Genetic and biochemical anal...

Poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) is the enzyme which degrades poly(ADP-ribose) polymers synthesized by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). Both enzymes are activated in response to different stimuli like oxidative stress and are involved in DNA repair processes. The retention of bovine foetal membranes (RFM) is supposed to be connected with oxidative stress conditions. The aim of the stud...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a calcium-energy supplement at calving on the incidence of calving-related disorders (CRD), fertility, BCS and milk yield in cows fed anionic diets and to establish any associations among outcome variables. In Florida, from October to December 1997, 479 cows were assigned to three groups and treated at calving as follows: Group 1: 160 n...

Over-parameterization and over-correction are two of the major problems in the rational function model (RFM). A new approach of optimized RFM (ORFM) is proposed in this paper. By synthesizing stepwise selection, orthogonal distance regression, and residual systematic error correction model, the proposed ORFM can solve the ill-posed problem and over-correction problem caused by constant term. Th...

Businesses derive more revenue from building and maintaining long-term relationships with their customers. Therefore, it is essential to build refined strategies based on customer relationship management, the purpose of increasing turnover profits while retaining In this context, segmentation, which at heart marketing strategy, makes possible determine answers questions relating number investme...