Whereas many independent methods are used to estimate snow water equivalent (SWE) and its spatial distribution seasonal variability, a need exists for systematic characterization of inter-model differences at annual, seasonal, regional scales necessary quantify the associated uncertainty in these datasets. This study conducts multi-scale validation comparison, based on Airborne Snow Observatory...

Evidence is presented suggesting that a rec mutation in one strain (presumably female) of a mating pair of Mycobacterium smegmatis strains prevented the appearance of recombinants, whereas a rec mutation in the other strain (presumably male) did not.

PURPOSE Small sided games (SSG) of football are an effective and efficient format to simultaneously train the physiological, technical, and tactical components of football. The duration of the recovery period between bouts of SSG will affect the physiological response to subsequent bouts. It was hypothesised that decreasing the duration of recovery periods separating serial SSG bouts would incr...

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are discussed as causative agents of various diseases including cancers. Expression of endogenous retroviral sequences can be induced by ultraviolet (UV) light, which is also considered as a cofactor in the development of cutaneous melanoma. Therefore, we investigated whether ultraviolet C (UVC) induces HERV-K rec and np9 expression in normal human epiderma...

BACKGROUND To present empirical data on how the variation in regulating clinical research and patient care was perceived in Finland between 2009 and 2012. METHODS Notes of interviews with 22 research ethics committee (REC) chairpersons were analyzed to identify whether differences in the regulation of clinical research and patient care were addressed. REC chairpersons' opinions on three imagi...

Background: the Auditory Nerve Recovery Function (REC) may be extracted from the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential (ECAP). ECAP may be influenced by the stimulation received (or the deprivation of stimulation) and by the etiology of the hearing loss, consequently it might affect the REC. Aim: to verify whether there is a correlation between the REC and each of the following factors:...

UV-irradiated plasmid pNov1 containing a cloned fragment of chromosomal DNA could be repaired by excision, but plasmid p2265 without homology to the chromosome could not. Establishment of pNov1 was more UV resistant in Rec(-) than in Rec(+) cells.

Complex research such as neuropsychiatric genetics presents unique challenges for ethics committees (REC), particularly in Africa where on mental & neurological disorders is still its infancy. To reflect these experiences of reviewing Neuropsychiatric Genetic studies we use two multicenter studies, the NeuroDev and NeuroGap-Psychosis studies. We explored content nation...

This study aimed to determine whether changes in contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) parameters could predict postsurgery overall and progression-free survival (PFS) in pancreatic cancer patients. Seventy-nine patients with a final pathological diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma were included in this study from June 2008 to August 2012. Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) CT of tumors wa...

The benefit of Class-of-Service (CoS) is an important topic in the “Network Neutrality” debate. Some proponents of network neutrality suggest that over-provisioning is a viable alternative to CoS, and that there is no need for differentiated services in an IP backbone for users needing better-than-besteffort service. In this paper, we quantify the extra capacity requirement for an over-provisio...