The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters that are to be used for across-herd genetic evaluations of seed stock pigs at GGP level. Performance data with pedigree information collected from swine breeder farms in Korea were provided by Korea Animal Improvement Association (AIAK). Performance data were composed of final body weights at test days and ultrasound measures of bac...

Kühnemund, M. 2016. Single Molecule Detection. Microfluidic Automation and Digital Quantification. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1189. 57 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9498-8. Much of recent progress in medical research and diagnostics has been enabled through the advances in molecular analysis technologies, ...

INTRODUCTION Despite the global success of Hib vaccination in reducing disease and mortality, uncertainty about the disease burden and the potential impact of Hib vaccination in Southeast Asia has delayed the introduction of vaccination in some countries in the region. Hib vaccination was introduced throughout Vietnam in July 2010 without catch-up. In an observational, population based surveill...

Starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) is an alga that has emerged as an aquatic invasive species of concern in the United States. Where established, starry stonewort can interfere with recreational uses of water bodies and potentially have ecological impacts. Incipient invasion of starry stonewort in Minnesota provides an opportunity to predict future expansion in order to target early detectio...

Many potential biological applications of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) require their dispersion in aqueous conditions. Recently, Dieckmann et al. designed a series of reversible cyclic peptides (RCPs) which exist in linear or cyclized states through controlled formation of an intramolecular disulfide bond between terminal Cys residues. These RCP-Cys peptides have been shown to dispers...

Under future warming conditions, high ambient temperatures will have a significant impact on population health in Europe. The aim of this paper is to quantify the possible future impact of heat on population mortality in European countries, under different climate change scenarios. We combined the heat-mortality function estimated from historical data with meteorological projections for the fut...

A novel method for excitation of RF B1 field in high-field (3-T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems using a subject-loaded quadrifilar helical antenna as an RF coil is proposed, evaluated, and demonstrated. Design, analysis, characterization, and evaluation of the novel coil when situated in a 3-T MRI bore and loaded with different phantoms are performed and cross-validated by extensive n...

The dynamics of a resistively coupled system of nonidentical Josephson junctions (JJ) with dc feedings is explored theoretically. The effects of system parameters on the dynamic features are defined and equilibrium features of the system of equations are explored in such a nonidentical JJ system for the first time. By using center manifold reduction, the inverse of coupling resistance Rcp is co...

Cochrane KC, Housh TJ, Bergstrom HC, Jenkins NDM, Johnson GO, Schmidt RJ, and Cramer JT. Perceptual and Physiological Fatigue Thresholds during Cycle Ergometry. JEPonline 2014;17(5): 95-107. Thirteen subjects (mean ± SD age: 21.8 ± 2.6 yrs) performed an incremental cycling test and 4, 8-min submaximal rides (65 to 80% of VO2 peak) to: (a) compare power outputs and relative intensities that corr...

Net primary productivity (NPP) is considered as an important indicator for forest ecosystem since the role of the forest is highlighted as a key sector for mitigating climate change. The objective of this research is to estimate changes on the net primary productivity of forest in South Korea under the different climate change scenarios. The G4M (Global Forest Model) was used to estimate curren...