BACKGROUND Walking speed is a simple and reliable measure of motor function that is negatively associated with adverse health events in older people, including falls, disability, hospital admissions, and mortality. Lead has adverse affects on human health, particularly on the vascular and neurological systems. OBJECTIVE We explored the hypothesis that lead is associated with slower walking sp...

Through data analysis of 7 571 883 pig carcasses slaughtered from 2004 to 2007 the means of quality classes (QC) 2.32, lean meat percentage (LM) 55.83%, carcass weight (CW) 87.21 kg, muscle thickness (MT) 61.95 mm and fat thickness (FT) 15.95 mm were determined. The highest correlation coefficients are between QC and LM (r = –0.920), LM and FT (–0.900) as well as QC and FT (0.828), the lowest b...

The FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) gene is a highly conserved florigen gene among flowering plants. Soybean genome encodes six homologs of FT, which display flowering activity in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, their contributions to flowering time in different soybean cultivars, especially in field conditions, are unclear. We employed six soybean cultivars with different maturities to extensively inves...

AIM Since cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature-tracking (CMR-FT) has been demonstrated to be of incremental clinical merit we investigated the interchangeability of global left and right ventricular strain parameters between different CMR-FT software solutions. MATERIAL AND METHODS CMR-cine images of 10 patients without significant reduction in LVEF and RVEF and 10 patients with a signif...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main source(s): German Centre for Cardiovascular Research Purpose Myocardial Feature-Tracking (FT) deformation imaging is superior risk-stratification compared to volumetric approaches. Since there no clear recommendation regarding FT post-processing, we different FT-strain analyses with reference...

An experimental study has been carried out to investigate and compare the cutting tool performances represented by insert wear, surface roughness forces of an uncoated carbide (H13A) three coated carbides GC2015 ( TiCN / Al2O3 TiN ), GC1015 (TiN) GC4215 ) during dry turning AISI4140 steel. Turning was 5 minutes on cylindrical specimens (80 mm diameter 400 length) along with a depth 0.5 mm, feed...

The banana weevil (BW), Cosmopolites sordidus, is the main coleopteran pest of banana, causing up to 100% yield loss. In this study, we screened 20 isolates entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) for management BW. lab, eight Beauveria bassiana caused >50% mortality adult BW, whereas Metarhizium anisopliae and Isaria fumosorosea were less pathogenic. B. ICIPE 648, 660 273 most pathogenic, killing ≥80%...

BACKGROUND Serotoninergic (5-HT) neurons are suggested to regulate estrous cycle in animal models. In the present study we evaluated whether a relationship exists between the serotoninergic precursors in the central nervous system and the gonadotrophin-ovarian cyclic function. METHODS We measured 5-HT precursors [free (FT) and total (TT) tryptophan] and LH, FSH and 17beta-estradiol (E2) level...

Following administration of i.v. doses of fl,S-1 -(tetrahydro-2furanyl)-5-fluorouracil in cancer patients, discrepant results have been obtained by several investigators when assaying for 5-fluorouracil (FUra) plasma concentrations, ranging from 0.1 to 5 fig/ml at peak concentrations. The newly isolated fl,S-1(tetrahydro-2-furanyl)-5-fluorouracil metabolites with altered tetrahydrofuran moiety ...