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...

This thesis describes several algorithms for tracking tennis balls in broadcast tennis videos. The algorithms are used to provide a ball tracking module for an automatic tennis video annotation system. As an overall strategy, we have decided to adopt the Track-After-Detection (TAD) approach to the tracking problem. A TAD approach decomposes a tracking problem into two sub-problems: object candi...

Understanding the capacity of forest tree species to adapt climate change is increasing importance for managing genetic resources. Through a genomics approach, we modelled spatial variation in adaptation within Australian temperate Eucalyptus globulus, identified putative drivers this genomic variation, and predicted locations future refugia populations at-risk maladaptation. Using 812,158 SNPs...

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...