Objectives were twofold: 1) to determine the chronology of development of dominant ovarian follicles during the peripubertal period in heifers and 2) to determine whether feeding a diet with low energy content that delays onset of puberty alters chronology of dominant ovarian follicular development in peripubertal heifers. Ten heifers of composite breeding (1/4 Angus, 1/4 Hereford, 1/4 Red Poll...

• Recessive mutations are due to loss-of-function by the protein product. • Dominant mutations result from a gain-of-function. • Testing whether a gene is essential requires a null mutation (one that completely eliminates its function). • Silent mutations have no effect, either because the base change does not change the sequence or amount of protein, or because the change in protein sequence h...

One approach to estimating the peak-to-peak gain of an LTI system is to bound the reachable states of the system with an invariant ellipsoid. This report presents numerical evidence suggesting that the best ellipsoidal bound (the so-called-norm) can be poor in the presence of dominant and/or unstable zero dynamics and/or repeated poles. In parallel, the report investigates the use of the system...

Introduction Blau syndrome is an autosomal dominant monogenic granulomatous disease associated with gain of function mutations at or near the NACHT domain of NOD2; it is the only form of granulomatous arthritis with a known gene mutation. Although its phenotype has been amply described as a triad of arthritis, uveitis and dermatitis in case series and retrospective cohorts, prospective studies ...

We study how coherent Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering influence coherent population trapping. In an experiment using an atomic sodium vapor cell we observe induced transparency, induced absorption, and gain features, all of subnatural linewidth. The electromagnetically induced resonance is a peak or a dip depending on which side of the optical transition the fields are tuned to, and thu...

The clinical and histological features of congenital hereditary corneal oedema in 23 patients are presented. The series includes cases of both recessive and dominant inheritance. Although the condition is present at birth or in early childhood, visual development appears to be little impaired, if at all. Penetrating keratoplasty carries a relatively good surgical prognosis and can produce a sub...

BACKGROUND Racquet sports, especially lawn tennis and badminton have been gaining popularity in Asian countries like India. With this increase in popularity, the injury rate in the sport has also increased. OBJECTIVES The study will help detect the presence of gleno-humeral movement dysfunction and scapular resting position abnormality in asymptomatic racquet players, thus providing basis for...

Skyline queries have recently attracted a lot of attention for its intuitive query formulation. It can act as a filter to discard sub-optimal objects. However, a major drawback of skyline is that, in datasets with many dimensions, the number of skyline objects becomes large and no longer offer any interesting insights. To solve the problem, k-dominant skyline queries have been introduced, which...