This study investigated possible involvement of photoperiodic regulation in reproductive endocrine system of female olive flounder. To investigate the influence on brain-pituitary axis in endocrine system by regulating photoperiod, compared expression level of Kisspeptin and sbGnRH mRNA in brain and FSH-β, LH-β and GH mRNA in pituitary before and after spawning. Photoperiod was treated natural ...

A characteristic process of terminal erythroid differentiation is the degradation of ribosomal RNA into mononucleotides. The pyrimidine mononucleotides can be dephosphorylated by pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase (P5N-I). In humans, a lack of this enzyme causes hemolytic anemia with ribosomal structures and trinucleotides retained in the red blood cells (RBCs). Although the protein/nucleotide sequence...

BACKGROUND Although the adherence to stroke guidelines in high-income countries has been shown to be associated with improved patient outcomes, the research, development and implementation of rehabilitation related guidelines in African countries is lacking. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this article is to describe how a group of front-line practitioners collaborated with academics and students t...

Fall injuries represent a huge healthcare, social and financial burden to the Canadian population. In 2004, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) was awarded recognition as a National Spotlight Organization for Implementation of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Best Practice Guidelines (BPGs). That same year, the author and co-leader of the Best Practice Guideline Program began...

Title of Document: STUDY OF THE FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS AND SPECTROSCOPY OF LASER IONIZED PLASMAS. JJennifer Anne Elle, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor Howard Milchberg Department of Physics Ultra-short laser pulses are used to ionize gas in different configurations and study the plasma and ionization dynamics. The variation in non-linear index of refraction as a function of time...

Background Our hospital identified delirium care as a quality improvement target. Baseline characterization of our delirium care and deficits was needed to guide improvement efforts. Methods Two inpatient units were selected: 1) A general internal medicine unit with a focus on geriatrics, and 2) a surgical unit. Retrospective chart audits were conducted for all patients over age 50 admitted d...

The picturewise just noticeable difference (PJND) for a given image, compression scheme, and subject is the smallest distortion level that can perceive when image compressed with this scheme. PJND be used to determine at which proportion of population does not notice any in image. To obtain accurate diverse results, must determined large number subjects images. This particularly important exper...

Collective cell movement is an indication of phenomena such as wound healing, embryonic morphogenesis, cancer invasion, and metastasis. Wound healing a complicated cellular biochemical procedure in which skin cells migrate from the boundaries into area to reconstruct injured layer(s). In vitro analysis migration effective assay for measuring changes migratory complement response experimental in...

• Learned Image Compression Generalized Octave Convolution Outperforms the state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods and traditional codecs such as VVC Recently, image compression approaches based on learning have gradually outperformed existing standards including BPG intra coding. In particular, application of context-adaptive entropy model significantly improves rate-distortion (R-D) perf...

BACKGROUND Although referring patients to community services is important for optimum continuity of care, referrals between hospital and community sectors are often problematic. Nurses are well positioned to inform patients about referral resources. The objective of this study is to describe the impact of implementing six nursing best practice guidelines (BPGs) on nurses' familiarity with patie...