purpose many factors influence athletes’ performance including anthropometric, physiological and environmental parameters. high altitude is characterized by adverse environmental conditions that are not found at sea level. we investigated the influence of some anthropometric and physiological factors on performance in the context of the mount cameroon race of hope. methods age, height, weight, ...

ABSTRACT Strains of the carnation wilt pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi, can be distinguished by DNA fingerprint patterns, using the fungal transposable elements Fot1 and impala as probes for Southern hybridization. The DNA fingerprints correspond to three groups of F. oxysporum f. sp. dianthi strains: the first group includes isolates of races 1 and 8; the second group includes isol...

This article presents findings from our ethnographic research on biomedical scientists' studies of human genetic variation and common complex disease. We examine the socio-material work involved in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and discuss whether, how, and when notions of race and ethnicity are or are not used. We analyze how researchers produce simultaneously different kinds of popul...

The idea of replacing a divergence constraint by a divergence boundary condition is investigated. The connections between the formulations are considered in detail. It is shown that the most common methods of using divergence boundary conditions do not always work properly. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalence of the formulations are given. ∗This work was supported by the Uni...

Across four studies, we directly compared children's essentialist reasoning about the stability of race and language throughout an individual's lifespan. Monolingual English-speaking children were presented with a series of images of children who were either White or Black; each face was paired with a voice clip in either English or French. Participants were asked which of two adults each targe...

RACE is a requirements engineering method which is currently under development. This paper describes broadly the techniques developed so far, reviews earlier work on how risk analysis might be incorporated in RACE and proposes an extension of the method to include evolutionary delivery of proposed changes derived from the method. Proposed changes arising from RACE are often software related and...

This paper describes and reflects on the experience of attempting to integrate process-oriented formal modelling with activity modelling in soft systems analysis. The work is part of a larger project at the University of Ulster to develop RACE, a new general purpose requirements engineering method for computing systems. Two distinctive characteristics of the integration approach used are that (...

Detection of complex splice sites (SSs) and polyadenylation sites (PASs) of eukaryotic genes is essential for the elucidation of gene regulatory mechanisms. Transcriptome-wide studies using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) have revealed prevalent alternative splicing (AS) and alternative polyadenylation (APA) in plants. However, small-scale and high-depth HTS aimed at detecting genes or gene fa...