OBJECTIVE To study the relative importance of determinants of thyroid volume. DESIGN Cross-sectional study on a sample of subjects issued from the SU.VI.MAX cohort. SUBJECTS 2987 French subjects (1713 women aged 35-60 years and 1274 men aged 45-60 years). None of them had previous or present thyroid disease. MEASUREMENTS Thyroid volume was determined by ultrasound. Serum TSH and free thyr...

A generalization of A r statistics is proposed and developed. The generalized A r quantum statistics is completely specified by a set of Jacobson generators satisfying a set of triple algebraic relations. Fock-Hilbert representations and Bargmann-Fock realizations are derived.

Question: What benefits does brooding confer to offspring viability that outweigh its costs to the nest-attending female? Organisms: Thirty captive Python regius females and their clutches. Site: Vicinity of Lomé, Togo. Background: It has previously been shown that brooding enhances ball python hatching success by reducing desiccation of eggs. Methods: We captured wild, gravid females just befo...

coccinellids play a major role in aphid control. hippodamia variegata goeze is an aphidophagous predator of worldwide distribution that could be found in different parts of iran. one of the criteria for evaluating the efficiency of a predator is its response to change in prey population density (functional response). the functional responses of males and females of hippodamia variegata were stu...

Background: Escherichia coli is an important uropathogen, responsible for most urinary tract infections (UTIs). Most studies on E. UTI pathogenesis have been in females, with limited isolates from men. Understanding epidemiology men management this gender, including formulation of empirical treatment guidelines. Methods: We studied the distribution 310 uropathogenic by uro-clinical syndrome, ho...

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This study was conducted to analyse the use of coconut water doses achieve a higher percentage males in guppy breeding and how it affects survival fry. The search took place Mertoyudan, Magelang district between November 2021 January 2022. research plan completely randomized design with 4 treatments replicates. Treatments this were immersed gravid females at 0%; 50%; 55%; 60% solution concentra...