INTRODUCTION We hypothesized that breed differences of Border Collies and Labrador Retrievers would be reflected in the temporospatial characteristics of the walk and trot. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty healthy Border Collies and 20 healthy Labrador Retrievers made three passes across a pressure sensing walkway system that recorded quantitative temporospatial information at a walk and a trot. ...

During the process development of coated tablets, knowledge on the formation and the location of film coating 'weak spots' is a key factor to the success of the process and the resulting product batch. It is understood that the performance of the product batch may be greatly limited, and often compromised, by weak spots on the tablet film coat. This study uses circular, biconvex tablets to inve...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to identify initial occlusal characteristics of Class II, division 1 patients treated with and without extraction of two upper premolars. Methods: For this purpose, 62 patients presenting with Class II, division 1 malocclusion were selected and divided into two groups according to treatment type. Group 1 consisted of 42 patients (23 females and 19 mal...

To examine the functional organization of the human triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) promoter, deletion, insertion, and linker scanning mutations were introduced into the TPI promoter of hybrid TPI/beta-globin genes. These genes were transiently expressed in mouse L and human HeLa cells, and the effect of each mutation on the frequency and position of transcription initiation was assayed by S1 n...

Urbanozems with typical pollution are formed along railways: heavy metals (HM), oil products, anthropogenic organic matter. Depending on the natural zone and intensity of leaching regime, accumulated can have a different effect integral environmental indicators soils – toxicity enzymatic activity. The aim work was to determine influence railway physicochemical characteristics adjacent urbanozem...

CD4 1 T cells play a critical role in generating and maintaining immune responses against pathogens and alloantigens, and evidence suggests an important role for them in antitumor immunity as well. Although major histocompatibility complex class II–restricted human CD4 1 T cells with specific antitumor reactivities have been described, no standard method exists for cloning the recognized tumor-...

By precisely manipulating the expression of individual genetic elements thought to be important for ecological performance, reverse genetics has the potential to revolutionize plant ecology. However, untested concerns about possible side-effects of the transformation technique, caused by Agrobacterium infection and tissue culture, on plant performance have stymied research by requiring onerous ...

A new non-invasive simple method for quantitative evaluation of thyroid was presented using graphical analysis of the transfer process of technetium-99m pertechnetate (99mTc) from the blood to thyroid. Thirty subjects were studied. After a bolus injection of 111 MBq of 99mTc, the data were recorded on a 128 x 128 matrix as 60 frames of 1.5-second duration. ROIs were placed over the aortic arch ...

Positive instance detection, especially for these in positive bags (true positive instances, TPIs), plays a key role for multiple instance learning (MIL) arising from a specific classification problem only provided with bag (a set of instances) label information. However, most previous MIL methods on this issue ignore the global similarity among positive instances and that negative instances ar...

Predicting how point mutations in genes alter the tertiary and quarternary structure of proteins is central to a number of areas of molecular biology and has implications in relation to the function and evolution of molecules. In the present study, we theoretically assessed the effects of 20 point mutations detected previously in a region of the triose-phosphate isomerase gene (tpi) of the prot...