Amplification fragment-length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis has proven to be a powerful tool for developing a large number of reliable genetic markers across a wide variety of organisms. Often it is desirable to further characterize these markers by obtaining internal and flanking sequence information. Here, we present a systematic approach for obtaining such information from AFLP markers. AFLP ...

as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...

INTRODUCTION Simulating joint motion is a prerequisite for any efficient surgical planning system. In this paper, we present a methodology that combines MRI and motion capture systems (Mocap) to simulate and visualize the hip joint motion with an optimized markers configuration. MR images are used to capture the subject’s anatomy as well as the trajectories of the skin markers that are attached...

variation of the branches of the external carotid artery (eca) is well known, but it is extremely rare for the occipital artery (oa) to arise from the internal carotid artery (ica). a 87-year-old man was found to have this anatomical variation on the right side by threedimensional computed tomography angiography for vascular mapping of the carotid arteries before superselective intra-arterial c...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Invasive methods are more reproducible and accurate than non-invasive ones when it comes to recording knee kinematics, but they are usually less accessible and less safe, mainly due to risk of infection. For this reason, non-invasive methods with passive markers are widely used. With these methods, varying marker sets based on a number of single markers, or sets of marker...

PURPOSE The correlation of the respiratory motion of external patient markers and abdominal tumors was examined. Data of this type are important for image-guided therapy techniques, such as respiratory gating, that monitor the movement of external fiducials. METHODS AND MATERIALS Fluoroscopy sessions for 4 patients with internal, radiopaque tumor fiducial clips were analyzed by computer visio...

DNA methylation plays an important role in regulating cell growth and disease development. Methylation profiles are examined by bisulfite conversion; however, the lack of markers for bisulfite conversion efficiency and appropriate internal control genes remains a major challenge. To address these issues, we utilized two bioinformatics approaches, coefficients of variances and resampling tests, ...