Indirect calorimetry (IC) measurements to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE) necessitate a stable measurement period or steady state (SS). There is limited evidence when assessing the time to reach SS in young, healthy adults. The aims of this prospective study are to determine the approximate time to necessary reach SS using open-circuit IC and to establish the appropriate duration of S...

The aim of this study was to determine the presence of Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin-associated gene (cagA)/vacuolating cytotoxin gene (vacA) among patients with chronic gastritis in Cuba and Venezuela. Gastric antrum biopsies were taken for culture, DNA extraction and PCR analysis. Amplification of vacA and cagA segments was performed using two regions of cagA: 349 bp were amplified with the F...

A cloned Drosophila muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) has been stably expressed in a Drosophila cell line (S2) under the control of an inducible Drosophila metallothionein promoter. A clonal cell line (S2-Dm1-1) has been isolated which, after induction of mAChR expression with CuSO4, exhibits high-affinity, saturable, specific binding of the muscarinic antagonist N-methyl scopolamine (N...

High-precision tidal harmonic constants are necessary for studies involving tides. This study proposes a new method combined with the adjoint assimilation model and Chebyshev polynomial fitting (CPF) to obtain in shallow-water region of Bohai Yellow Sea (BYS). Based on CPF method, full-field reliable cotidal charts eight major constituents (M2, S2, K1, O1, N2, K2, P1 Q1) were fitted from X-TRAC...

Agronomic biofortification increases the concentration of target mineral in edible portions crops by use fertilizers to increase dietary intake minerals. Among these iron and zinc deficiencies human nutrition are noticed countries where maize is staple food. The objective this study was evaluate agronomic performance association with Integrated Nutrient Management (Zea mays .L). conducted under...

[S1,Q15=MAC15(S1), P13=MAC13(S1,Q15)] [S2,Q25=MAC25(S2),P23=MAC23(S2,Q25)] [S4,Q46=MAC46(S4),P45=MAC45(S4,Q46)] Q36=MAC36(S1|S2|S3) P35=MAC35(S3, S1|S2, Q15, Q25, Q36) [S3, (S1|S2), Q15, Q25, Q36, P35] Q5B= MAC5B(S1|S2|S3|S4|S5) P56=MAC56(S5, (S1|S2|S3|S4),Q36,Q46,Q5B) [S5, (S1|S2|S3|S4),Q36, Q46, Q5B, P56] P6B=MAC6B(S6, ((S1|S2|S3|S4 |S5)| S7|S8),Q5B,Q7B,Q8B) [S6, ((S1|S2|S3|S4 |S5)| S7|S8),Q5...

a factorial experiment based on complete block design was conducted to study the interactive effects of sulfur fertilizer and thiobacillus bacteria on corn growth and root colonization with two species of mycorrhiza fungi. treatments were five levels of sulfur (s0: 0, s1: 50, s2: 100, s3: 150 and s4: 200 mg.kg-1 of dry soil), thiobacillus in two levels [no application (t0) and application of ba...

For simplicity, we adopt the following rules: n denotes an element of N, X, X1 denote sets, r, p denote real numbers, s, x0, x1, x2 denote real numbers, S, T denote real normed spaces, f , f1, f2 denote partial functions from R to the carrier of S, s1 denotes a sequence of real numbers, and Y denotes a subset of R. The following propositions are true: (1) Let s2 be a sequence of real numbers an...