This first issue was co-authored by two representatives of the many kinds of people and organizations involved in CBPH. Wendel Brunner, PhD, MD, Director of Public Health for Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS), and Barbara Becnel, director of the West County Health Collaborative, were invited to write the first brief because as part of the PPH grantee network in Contra Costa County, they both ...

To improve the performance of UAV navigation and geo-referencing systems, this work has proposed an approach of integrating optic flow, INS and GPS time differenced phase measurements. Time-differenced carrier phase measurement (TDCP) is used to estimate the precise position changes (delta positions) of the GPS receiver between observation epochs, which then constitutes a precise aiding source ...

The enzymes alcohol dehydrogenase, diaphorase, esterase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glucosephosphate isomerase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucomutase, shikimate dehydrogenase, and xanthine dehydrogenase were analyzed by starch gel electrophoresis of leaf tissue from nine sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] cultivars....

are tandem repetitive DNA sequences. The availability and abundance of SSR markers throughout the cotton Knowledge of genetic diversity and relationships among breeding genome, their polymorphic nature, codominance, and materials has a significant impact on crop improvement. Association between parental divergence and progeny performance has not been polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay ...

With the advent of molecular data, and particularly the use of molecular clocks when warranted, biogeographers have begun to reexamine the roles of Gondwana breakup, immigration from the Laurasian tropics, and transoceanic dispersal in shaping similarities among the world’s tropical floras (Givnish et al. 1999, 2000; Lavin et al. 2000, 2005; Renner et al. 2000, 2001; Azuma et al. 2001; Chanderb...

Although polyploidy is rampant in ferns and plays a major role in shaping their diversity, the evolutionary history of many polyploid species remains poorly understood. Nuclear DNA sequences can provide valuable information for identifying polyploid origins; however, remarkably few nuclear markers have been developed specifically for ferns, and previously published primer sets do not work well ...

We studied the phylogeny of 22 accessions of Daucus and seven accessions in related genera, with DNA sequences from eight nuclear orthologs and one plastid (psbA/trnH) region. Maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of the concatenated data matrix of 7,212 aligned nucleotides provided excellent bootstrap support for many clades. Concordant with prior molecular results Pseudorlaya pumi...

L of circulating cell adhesion molecules (cCAM) may be useful markers for stratifying cardiovascular disease severity or prognosis.1–4 Furthermore, cCAM levels are elevated in subjects with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetic patients, hypertensive patients, and in smokers.5–11 The reported effects of hypercholesterolemia on cCAM levels, however, has been controversial.12–15 Sampietro and colle...

Aim—To review the rate of retinal detachment after macular hole surgery in patients who received vitrectomy and scleral buckle versus those who had vitrectomy alone. Methods—All patient charts and hospital records were examined for patients who underwent vitrectomy surgery for macular hole between September 1993 and June 1997. A total of 326 patients were identified and all were followed for a ...

lecular markers within mapping populations (Wendel and Parks, 1984; Torres et al., 1985; McCouch et al., Molecular tools have not identified the gene(s) governing apomixis 1988; Paterson et al., 1988, 1991; Saito et al., 1991; Lytnor have they been used to successfully transfer the trait to important, sexually reproducing food crops. Several molecular studies addressing tle, 1991; Schon et al.,...