Plant mitochondria signal to the nucleus leading to altered transcription of nuclear genes by a process called mitochondrial retrograde regulation (MRR). MRR is implicated in metabolic homeostasis and responses to stress conditions. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) are a MRR signaling component, but whether all MRR requires ROS is not established. Inhibition of the cytochrome respi...

A good fit of model predictions to empirical data are often used as an argument for model validity. However, if the model is flexible enough to fit a large proportion of potential empirical outcomes, finding a good fit becomes less meaningful. We propose a method for estimating the proportion of potential empirical outcomes that the model can fit: Model Flexibility Analysis (MFA). MFA aids mode...

background and aim: maternal concept is part of the feminine gender role. the important part of the maternal concept is the unique relationship experience between mother and child that begins with  maternal-fetal attachment(mfa) during pregnancy. the aim of this study is predict the mfa according to gender role in pregnant women in shiraz city. methods:this descriptive correlational study was c...

Theory and experience in metabolic engineering both show that metabolism operates at the network level. In plants, this complexity is compounded by a high degree of compartmentation and the synthesis of a very wide array of secondary metabolic products. A further challenge to understanding and predicting plant metabolic function is posed by our ignorance about the structure of metabolic network...

Mobile Commerce activities will not expand without the proper support of mobile financial applications (MFA), including mobile banking, mobile brokerage service, mobile money transfer, and mobile micropayments. MFA is expected to have a great impact on the future of mobile commerce industries and makes purchasing activities more flexible and convenient, also creating new markets. However, despi...

Considering Factor Analysis (FA) for each component of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), clustering and local dimensionality reduction can be addressed simultaneously by Mixture of Factor Analyzers (MFA) and Local Factor Analysis (LFA), which correspond to two FA parameterizations, respectively. This paper investigates the performance of Variational Bayes (VB) and Bayesian Ying-Yang (BYY) harmony l...

BACKGROUND Sensitive and accurate counting methods are required to assess the residual white cells (WBCs) in WBC-reduced blood components. The Nageotte hemocytometer, widely used for this purpose, is cumbersome, and its efficacy is dependent upon the skill of the operator. The performance of a simple fluorochromatic assay using tissue-typing microdroplet trays is presented here. STUDY DESIGN ...

Material flow analysis (MFA) describes a class of methods that allow analysing and designing material and energy flow systems like supply chains, eco-industrial parks or production sites. Material flow networks are one of the methods in the field of MFA. Based on the Petri nets, the material flow network make it possible to conduct static MFA (steady-state modelling) as well as dynamic MFA (con...

Mean eld annealing (MFA) algorithm, proposed for solving combinatorial optimization problems, combines the characteristics of neural networks and simulated annealing. Previous works on MFA resulted with successful mapping of the algorithm to some classic optimization problems such as traveling salesperson problem, scheduling problem, knapsack problem and graph partitioning problem. In this pape...