aim and background: the purpose of this research was a quantitative study of family factors that interfere with suicide attempters. methods and materials: the research is descriptive. we used phenomenological and qualitative way. 20 suicide attempter's participants were selected by purpose-based way, and sampling continued to saturating. for data gathering, we used interview that accomplished b...

olive oil extraction methods and technology can affect the quality and quantity of the extracted oil. in this study, qualitative and quantitative parameters were investigated for oil extracted using a hammer crusher at 720 and 1450 rpm at 30°, 40°, 60° c mixing temperatures. the data were analyzed using a complete randomized block factorial design using spss software with three replications. th...

The first and last names for the second and the fifth authors were inadvertently switched. The first name appears as the last name and the last name appears as the first name. Zhao Xinwang should be Xinwang Zhao and Tu Jinxing should be Jinxing Tu. The correct citation is: Bu SH, Zhao X, Yi C, Wen J, Tu J, Zhang YM (2015) Interacted QTL Mapping in Partial NCII Design Provides Evidences for Bree...

During bouts of evolutionary diversification, such as adaptive radiations, the emerging species cluster around different locations in phenotype space. How such multimodal patterns in phenotype space can emerge from a single ancestral species is a fundamental question in biology. Frequency-dependent competition is one potential mechanism for such pattern formation, as has previously been shown i...

Most statistical methods for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping focus on a single phenotype. However, multiple phenotypes are commonly measured, and recent technological advances have greatly simplified the automated acquisition of numerous phenotypes, including function-valued phenotypes, such as growth measured over time. While methods exist for QTL mapping with function-valued phenotypes,...

The contribution of size 3 and size 4 sibships to power in covariance structure modeling of a codominant QTL is investigated. Power calculations are based on the noncentral chi-square distribution. Sixteen sets of parameter values are considered. Results indicate that size 3 and size 4 sibships provided large increases in power over size 2 sibships. On average a size 3 (4) sibship is 3 (6 to 7)...

Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) underlying multifactorial disorders explain little of the heritability - most is 'missing'. A new yeast study has identified QTLs which explain most heritability in traits. Why is heritability missing in human diseases but not here?