Protein needs for otherwise healthy individuals older than 19 years are defined by the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) at 0.80 g protein/kg/day. There is no recommendation in the current RDA for subpopulations of older adults or people in various pathological situations. Despite the lack of a separate recommendation, there exists a growing body of evidence that is strongly suggestive of an ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated interactions between maternal genetic variation in 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and micronutrient intake on the risk of myelomeningocele (MM) in offspring. Therefore, we sought to determine if the role of maternal MTHFR C677T and A1298C on MM risk is altered by maternal intake of micronutrients related to one-carbon metabolism. METHODS...

Representational difference analysis of cDNA (cDNA RDA) provides a powerful technique for the identification of specific differences between two mRNA populations. The method has previously been used to analyse differential gene expression in eukaryotes, but until now has not been successfully applied to prokaryotes. A strain of Neisseria meningitidis with a deletion of the iron-regulated lactof...

Representational difference analysis (RDA), a subtractive hybridization method that enriches differences between complex genomes, can be used to isolate fragments deleted in tumor genomes. Usually, most of the clones obtained by this approach result from polymorphic fragments. Therefore, identification of homozygously deleted fragments, which can indicate the presence of tumor suppressor loci, ...

Integration of user-generated content with librarycatalogs become more important with the developments in webtechnologies and semantic networks. As a result of thesedevelopments, library catalogs are linked with open data resourceslike the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), DBpedia, andamazon.com with the aim of bibliographic description via UniformResource Ide...

Purpose: Relative dispersion analysis (RDA), a new high pass resolution perimetry (HRP) index, appears to capture a novel aspect of visual field abnormality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation of RDA and other HRP indices with the Humphrey perimeter parameters. Methods: Fifty-six eyes were randomly recruited from among patients at the authors’ clinic. Twenty-nine eyes were cl...

Cloud computing has emerged as a new computing paradigm that offers great potential for storing data remotely. Presently, many organizations have reduced the burden of local data storage and maintenance by outsourcing data storage to the cloud. However, integrity and security of the outsourced data continues to be a matter of major concern for data owners due to the lack of control and physical...

Abstract This study aimed to identify clinical and laboratory variables that could help predict the negative outcome in cattle affected by gastrointestinal emergencies. A retrospective cohort was carried out using multivariate logistic regression analysis based on data collected from records of hospitalized at Garanhuns Bovine Clinic, UFRPE campus. One hundred twenty-two met inclusion criteria ...