This study was conducted with the following purposes: 1) to assess the concurrent validity and reliability of the BIQ-C, 2) to get information on the background, demographic data and the lifestyle of adults with ID in Hong Kong shelter workshop, and 3) to get information on physical activity behaviour and psychosocial behaviour of adults with ID in Hong Kong shelter workshop, and 4) a trial run...

Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIQ) are among the most structurally diverse and pharmaceutically valuable secondary metabolites. A plant-specific WRKY-type transcription factor, CjWRKY1, was isolated from Coptis japonica and identified as a transcriptional activator of BIQ biosynthesis. However, the expression of CjWRKY1 gene alone was not sufficient for the activation of genes encoding biosynth...

Bisulfite sequencing is a widely used method for measuring DNA methylation in eukaryotic genomes. The assay provides single-base pair resolution and, given sufficient sequencing depth, its quantitative accuracy is excellent. High-throughput sequencing of bisulfite-converted DNA can be applied either genome wide or targeted to a defined set of genomic loci (e.g. using locus-specific PCR primers ...

SUMMARY Manual processing of DNA methylation data from bisulfite sequencing is a tedious and error-prone task. Here we present an interactive software tool that provides start-to-end support for this process. In an easy-to-use manner, the tool helps the user to import the sequence files from the sequencer, to align them, to exclude or correct critical sequences, to document the experiment, to p...

Long political conflicts, especially the Karbala tragedy, and narrative-oriented belief system trying to hold on new geographies have created a cultural basin in Islamic geography heterodox lifestyles caused by social differences, mostly under influence of Imāmiyya cult, which fell relatively far from institutionalized perspective Ṣūfism, sects creeds, revealed “Ali cult”, turned into myth time...