Dopamine is important to learning and plasticity. Dopaminergic drugs are the focus of many therapies targeting the motor system, where high inter-individual differences in response are common. The current study examined the hypothesis that genetic variation in the dopamine system is associated with significant differences in motor learning, brain plasticity, and the effects of the dopamine prec...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate nutritional recovery patterns in 106 undernourished children assisted by the Center of Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN, in Portuguese) between January 1995 and December 1999. DESIGN CREN assists undernourished children aged 0 to 72 months living in the southern regions of Sao Paulo, in an outpatient setting. Nutritional status was assessed by Z-scores of weight-...

background: decay products of radon and thoron present in indoor environment are the most important sources of radiation from natural sources which affect human beings, since general public spend at lest 80% of their time in indoor. materials and methods: air samples were collected for measuring the concentration of radon and thoron daughter products from various indoor environments during four...

Large-scale studies estimate the heritability of blood pressure at approximately 50%. We carried out a genome-wide linkage analysis to search for chromosomal loci that might explain this heritability using longitudinal, multiple measures of systolic and diastolic blood pressure obtained in sibling pairs and dizygotic twin pairs from 2 countries (a total of 286 pairs from Australia and 636 pairs...

This paper presents a HMM-based speaker verification system which was implemented for a field trial. One of the challenges for moving HMM from speech recognition to speaker verification is to understand the HMM score variation and to define a proper measurement which is comparable across speech samples. In this paper we define two basic verification measurements, a qualifier-based measurement a...

the objective of this research was to estimate the genetic parameters and trend of somatic cell count in holstein cows of iran using test day records. the phenotypic the used data consisted of were consisting of 407167 first lactation test day records the which were collected by the center of animal breeding and livestock production improvement center of iran during 2009 to 2013. somatic cell c...

This study aims to investigate the relationships of personality and social support with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traffic accidents.The 90 Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were completed 1 week after trauma. The Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) was surveyed 3 months after discharge.PCL-C score of 38 was used as cutoff point. The older age...

Melanization in Drosophila is complex and varies from species to species. Several methods in practice today quantitate pigmentation in Drosophila species, but these existing methods are compromised at certain levels. The majority of drosophilid body tergites show a range of yellow to dark brown pigmentation as well as segment to segment variation, making it difficult to score correctly. We pres...

a characteriation of continuity of the $p$-$lambda$-variation function is given and the helly's selection principle for $lambda bv^{(p)}$ functions is established. a characterization of the inclusion of waterman-shiba classes into classes of functions with given integral modulus of continuity is given. a useful estimate on modulus of variation of functions of class $lambda bv^{(p)}$ is found.

Gene panel and exome sequencing have revealed a high rate of molecular diagnoses among diseases where the genetic architecture has proven suitable for sequencing approaches, with a large number of distinct and highly penetrant causal variants identified among a growing list of disease genes. The challenge is, given the DNA sequence of a new patient, to distinguish disease-causing from benign va...