The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality characteristics of seven yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius Poepp. and Endl.) cultivars (Cajamarca, Cusco, Early White, Late Red, Morado, New Zealand and Quinault) cultivated in the southwest of Germany. The following phyto/chemical traits were investigated in different yacon tuber parts (flesh, peel, and whole tubers): total dry matter, sugar cont...

The relation between the dietary protein contents and biological values is already known in conventional (CV) rats, but this relation has rarely been reported in germ-free (GF) rats. Therefore, the relation between purified whole egg protein contents in diets and biological values in GF rats was examined and the results were compared with those of CV rats. Diets. Diets with five different prote...

A viscoelastometer, the SonoClot Coagulation Analyzer, has been proposed for use in the evaluation of platelet function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate systematically this instrument when used with whole blood. Under laboratory conditions, the coefficient of variation (cv) of determinations of whole blood activated clotting time (ACT) on the instrument was approximately 7.0 percent. ...

Weber, Shafir, and Blais (2004) advocate use of the coefficient of variation (CV) as a measure of risk sensitivity and apply CV in a meta-analysis of data for risky choices by humans and animals. We critically re-examine the CV measure as either a normative or descriptive criterion for decision under risk. CV fails as a normative criterion because it violates first order stochastic dominance. W...

Instrumental sexual responses were tested in two group; of rats. In Group 1 the subjects were tested with the same partners throughout the whole experiment, whereas in Group 2 the partners were changed every second week of experiment. The statistically significant positive correlations between the male and female response latencies were observed significantly more often in Group 1 than in Group...

Resting-state fMRI results in neurodegenerative diseases have been somewhat conflicting. This may be due to complex partial volume effects of CSF in BOLD signal in patients with brain atrophy. To encounter this problem, we used a coefficient of variation (CV) map to highlight artifacts in the data, followed by analysis of gray matter voxels in order to minimize brain volume effects between grou...

apricot ( armeniaca vulgaris l.) is a popular and an economically profitable fruit of the temperate zone. various apricot genotypes grow in different areas in iran. the genetic diversity of 30 cultivars and genotypes of iranian apricot and as well, of two foreign cultivars (as control) was studied through morphological attributes and rapd markers. in a first experiment, 21 quantitative and qual...