This study was carried out to investigate the direct and indirect responses to selection for four-week body weight (4 week body (wk BW)) and four-week breast weight (4 week breast weight (wk BRW)) and to determine the genetic contribution of reminder founders to the last generation. A total number of 351 birds were equally allocated to three lines, including two selected lines (S1 and S2 for BW...

In α-chloralose-anesthetized cats, we examined the role of GABAA, glycine, and opioid receptors in sacral neuromodulation-induced inhibition of bladder overactivity elicited by intravesical infusion of 0.5% acetic acid (AA). AA irritation significantly (P < 0.01) reduced bladder capacity to 59.5 ± 4.8% of saline control. S1 or S2 dorsal root stimulation at threshold intensity for inducing refle...

We examined the attentional demands of the preparation process that intervenes a warning stimulus (S1) and a subsequent reaction stimulus (S2). Twelve participants performed a reaction task with a variable S1–S2 interval both with and without concurrent memory load that served to deplete attentional resources. We found that memory load did not modify the effect of the S1-S2 interval on reaction...

Here we briefly review our information theoretic approach to revealing community structure in weighted and directed networks [1] and present a new fast stochastic and recursive search algorithm to minimize the map equation — the objective function of our method. We have developed this algorithm to be able to accurately partition the large number of bootstrap networks [2]. The search algorithm c...

The double exponential model t t M T Be Ae vl μ μ − − + = was fitted to log10(vl) data from day 0 to day 28 post ART. When vl was undetectable it was replaced with the limit of detection (80 copies per ml), indicated by the dashed line in Figure S1 and S2. Fits were performed by nonlinear least squares regression, confidence intervals were calculated by bootstrapping the cases and trimming the ...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that longitudinal pulmonary arterial deformation during the cardiac cycle reflects pulmonary arterial capacitance. To examine this hypothesis, we assessed whether tissue Doppler-derived pulmonary annular motion could serve as a novel way to evaluate pulmonary arterial capacitance in pediatric patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD). METHODS In this prospective...

There are several downstream analysis goals for which RNA-seq is well suited. Main categories of these are described briefly below with reference to supporting materials. Refer to S2 Table for specific tools relevant to many of these areas. For each application, a basic data recommendation is provided. It is important to remember that these are simply examples. In addition to the varying demand...

Event-related potential (ERP) studies of working memory have used delayed S1-S2 match-to-sample tasks in which S1 is held in memory for comparison with S2. ERP negativities in the S1-S2 interval have been interpreted either in terms of working memory operations, or in terms of general preparatory motor processing. Two experiments (N = 20 each) were carried out to explore the nature of ERP negat...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of the congenital absence of one hand on cortical organization of the sensorimotor cortex (S1/M1). We investigated the tongue representation in S1/M1 in nine participants with normally developed limbs, comprising the control group, and in eight persons with a congenitally completely missing hand (i.e. unilateral hand amelia). All partic...