Growth-regulating factors (GRFs) are plant-specific transcription factors that have important functions in regulating plant growth and development. Previous studies on GRF family members focused either on a single or a small set of genes. Here, a comparative genomic analysis of the GRF gene family was performed in poplar (a model tree species), Arabidopsis (a model plant for annual herbaceous d...

During movement, errors are typically corrected only if they hinder performance. Preferential correction of task-relevant deviations is described by the minimal intervention principle but has not been demonstrated in the joints during locomotor adaptation. We studied hopping as a tractable model of locomotor adaptation of the joints within the context of a limb-force-specific task space. Subjec...

the aim of this paper is to study the high order difference scheme for the solution of a fractional partial differential equation (pde) in the electroanalytical chemistry. the space fractional derivative is described in the riemann-liouville sense. in the proposed scheme we discretize the space derivative with a fourth-order compact scheme and use the grunwald- letnikov discretization of the ri...

Third-order weak lensing statistics are a promising tool for cosmological analyses since they extract information in the non-Gaussianity of cosmic large-scale structure. However, such require precise and accurate models covariance. In this second paper series on third-order statistics, we derive validate an analytic model covariance aperture $\langle M_\mathrm{ap}^3\rangle$. We from real-space ...

Both thyroid hormone and hypothalamic growth hormone (GH)-releasing factor (GRF) facilitate pituitary somatotroph function. However, the pathophysiological role of thyroid hormone in GRF secretion is less well understood. Thyrotoxicosis, induced by administration of thyroxine (T4) in rats, inhibited both pituitary GH levels and immunoreactive GRF secretion from incubated hypothalamus. At the hi...

Angular impulse generation is dependent on the position of the total body center of mass (CoM) relative to the ground reaction force (GRF) vector during contact with the environment. The purpose of this study was to determine how backward angular impulse was regulated during two forward translating tasks. Control of the relative angle between the CoM and the GRF was hypothesized to be mediated ...

Summary: Random Forest (RF) is a powerful supervised learner and has been popularly used in many applications such as bioinformatics. In this work we propose the guided random forest (GRF) for feature selection. Similar to a feature selection method called guided regularized random forest (GRRF), GRF is built using the importance scores from an ordinary RF. However, the trees in GRRF are built ...

Synthetic human pancreatic GH-releasing factor (1-44)NH2 (GRF) and acetylcholine (ACh) were shown to evoke a dose-related release of GH from cultured bovine pituitary cells with half-maximal effective doses of 0.3 and 500 nmol/l respectively. Concentrations of ACh (10 mumol/l) and GRF (25 nmol/l) which were shown to give near maximal responses when presented alone, produced highly synergistic r...

Adaptation of kinetics response when running on different surface has been commonly measured by the ground reaction force (GRF). GRF was extensively been used in studies related to surface characteristics such irregularity, incline and types. Since surface hardness effects on the ground reaction force response and the foot adaption is remain unclear, the present study was carried out to address...

In [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 27 (1988) 385-389], M. Grabiec in- troduced a notion of completeness for fuzzy metric spaces (in the sense of Kramosil and Michalek) that successfully used to obtain a fuzzy version of Ba- nachs contraction principle. According to the classical case, one can expect that a compact fuzzy metric space be complete in Grabiecs sense. We show here that this is not the case,...