Method 2. (Modification of Napier, 1922.) Here instead of four drops of blood being taken directly from the patient's finger at the time of the test, as done by Napier, an equal quantity of previously collected blood was put into a small test tube containing c. c. of citrated saline (Formula : sod. cit. 0.5 grm., sod. chlor. 0.9 grm., and water 100 c. c.). After adding a drop of formalin, it wa...

Le Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) de l’Ina1 est un témoin et acteur majeur de l’histoire de la musique depuis la deuxième moitié du XX siècle jusqu’à nos jours. Né en 1948 suite aux expériences de Pierre Schaeffer autour de la radio et de l’utilisation des outils radiophoniques pour la création musicale, la longue trajectoire du Groupe épouse l’histoire des technologies ainsi que l’évolut...

BACKGROUND The increase in breast cancer incidence has enhanced attention towards breast cancer risk. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of breast cancer and risk perception of women, factors that affect risk perception, and to determine differences between absolute risk and the perception of risk. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out among 346 women whose score in ...

OBJECTIVE Intramuscular fat is one of the meat quality traits that is considered in the selection strategies for Hanwoo (Korean cattle). Different methods are used to estimate the breeding value of selection candidates. In the present work we focused on accuracy of different genotype relationship matrices as described by forni and pedigree based relationship matrix. METHODS The data set inclu...

Many bacteria encode proteinaceous bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) that encapsulate sequential enzymatic reactions of diverse metabolic pathways. Well-characterized BMCs include carboxysomes for CO2-fixation, and propanediol- and ethanolamine-utilizing microcompartments that contain B12-dependent enzymes. Genes required to form BMCs are typically organized in gene clusters, which promoted th...

The concept of canonical multiple valued input generalised Reed-Muller (MIGRM) forms is introduced. The MIGRM is a direct extension of the well known generalised ReedMuller (GRM) forms to the logic with multiple valued inputs. The concept of the polarity of a GRM form is generalised to the polarity matrix of a MIGRM form. A tabular pattern-matching method is presented for the calculation of a M...

RESPONSE THEORY MODELS Various polytomous IRT models parameterize the probability of response categories differently from each other. For example, the graded response model (GRM) (Samejima, 1969) is based on the cumulative log-odds principle, whereas the generalized partial credit model (GPCM) (Muraki, 1992) is based on the adjacent log-odds principle. It is widely known that these two polytomo...