understanding of parameters that influence parasitoids fitness is necessary for mass rearing and effective use of parasitoids. host quality is an intrinsic feature that is determined by quantitative and qualitative differences in hosts. these differences can change nutritional resources available and consequently affect life history traits of parasitoid. in this study, parasitoid wasps lysiphle...

purpose judo is a complex sport where different anthropological parameters determine performance. judo, as a sport is not well known in india. there is evident lack of data concerning the anthropological determinants of judo players. this study was conducted to determine the anthropometric profile and special judo fitness levels of judokas. methods this cross sectional study was conducted on 31...

When model parameters in systems biology are not available from experiments, they need to be inferred so that the resulting simulation reproduces the experimentally known phenomena. For the purpose, Bayesian statistics with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a useful method. Conventional MCMC needs likelihood to evaluate a posterior distribution of acceptable parameters, while the approximate B...

BACKGROUND/AIM The aim of this research was to determine the effects of physical activity level (PAL) and physical fitness on falling parameters in community-dwelling elderly people. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-six elderly people were grouped as low PAL group (group 1, n: 38) and high PAL (group 2, n: 38) according to their PAL scores. PAL was measured by the Physical Activity Scale for the...

The target of software engineering is to produce high quality software product at low cost. Software testing is labour-intensive, ambiguous and error prone activity of software development. How to provide cost-effective strategies for software test cases optimization problem such as classification, minimization, selection, and prioritization has been one of the research focuses in software test...

the purpose of this study was to determine whether a 45 bp insertion/deletion (i/d) polymorphism in human uncoupling protein 2 (hucp2) gene was associated with changes in several cardiovascular risk and physical fitness factors in response to combined exercise during 12 weeks in korean middle-aged women. the changes in physiological parameters after combined exercise during 12 weeks were compar...

This session examined how effects of GM plants can be distinguished from those of non-GM comparators, how these differences can be measured, and how effects on non-targets and on plant fitness can be assessed. This review focuses on issues concerning plant fitness and invasiveness, and explores how the consequences of changes can be evaluated in terms of their environmental impact for risk asse...

The genomes of all organisms are subject to continuous bombardment of deleterious genomic mutations (DGM). Our ability to accurately estimate various parameters of DGM has profound significance in population and evolutionary genetics. The Deng-Lynch method can estimate the parameters of DGM in natural selfing and outcrossing populations. This method assumes constant fitness effects of DGM and h...

The evolutionary forces that drive fitness variation in species are of considerable interest. Despite this, the relative importance and interactions of genetic and social factors involved in the evolution of fitness traits in wild mammalian populations are largely unknown. To date, a few studies have demonstrated that fitness might be influenced by either social factors or genes in natural popu...