Title of Dissertation CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ROLE OF THE FEM GENES IN THE SEX DETERMINATION PATHWAY OF CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE Robin Cook Hill, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed by: Professor Eric Haag Department of Biology In the genus Caenorhabditis, self-fertile hermaphrodites in C.elegans and C.briggsae evolved from females by developing the ability to generate a limited number of self s...

 In pavement design, the CBR and direct shear tests are two very common laboratory investigations for predicting the strength of a subgrade layer. The relationship between the CBR and water content has been commonly presented in analyses, with the result of the direct shear being expressed from the aspect of effective cohesion and the internal friction angle. Even though most natural soil is in...

Objectives: One of the prominent vital needs for implementing a Community-Based Rehabilitation(CBR) program is correct perception and we know that CBR is linked to several challenges. The current study was performed to identify the challenges of implementing a CBR program in Iran based on the perceptions of the stakeholders. Methods: This study was qualitative conventional content analysis. In...

This article will introduce abductive case-based reasoning (CBR) and attempt to show that abductive CBR and deductive CBR can be integrated in clinical process and problem solving. Then it provides a unified formalization for integration of abduction, abductive CBR, deduction and deductive CBR. This article also investigates abductive case retrieval and deductive case retrieval using similarity...

The modification of transcriptional regulation is a well-documented evolutionary mechanism in both plants and animals, but post-transcriptional controls have received less attention. The derived hermaphrodite of C. elegans has regulated spermatogenesis in an otherwise female body. The PUF family RNA-binding proteins FBF-1 and FBF-2 limit XX spermatogenesis by repressing the male-promoting prote...

conclusions the results of this study show that applying cbr programs in the rural and remote areas can be effective in improving the qol of people with physical disability. results data were analyzed using spss software. the results demonstrated a significant difference in qol between the two groups (p > 0.002). participants in the cbr program group showed a higher level of qol compared with t...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) solves problems using the already stored knowledge, and captures new knowledge, making it immediately available for solving the next problem. Therefore, CBR can be seen as a method for problem solving, and also as a method to capture new experience and make it immediately available for problem solving. The CBR paradigm has been originally introduced by the cognitive s...

OBJECTIVE The potential difficulty in doing initial dilation in the percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT) with the Ciaglia Blue Rhino (CBR) technique has been reported by others and encountered in our clinical practice. To resolve this problem, we developed a modified CBR technique by using a guidewire dilating forceps (GWDF) to facilitate initial dilation. The present before-and-after com...

Carbonyl reductase (CBR) is a cytosolic NADPH-dependent oxidoreductase metabolizing prostaglandins, steroids, quinines, and anthracycline antibiotics. Many experimental studies have shown that CBR plays important roles in the regulation of tumor progression, but clinical significance of CBR status remains unclear. Thus, we conducted a retrospective study on CBR mRNA expression in lung cancer. T...