BACKGROUND Longitudinal prospective birth cohort studies are pivotal to identifying fundamental causes and determinants of disease and health over the life course. There is limited information about the challenges, retention, and collection strategies in the study of Indigenous populations. The aim is to describe the follow-up rates of an Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort study and how they we...

The transcription of reductive dehalogenase homologous (rdh) genes of "Dehalococcoides" sp. strain CBDB1 was investigated during the growth and reductive dechlorination of 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (TCB). A method was developed to monitor the expression of all 32 rdhA genes present in the genome based on reverse transcription-PCR amplification with 13 degenerate primer pairs and termina...

PURPOSE To identify retinoids and retinoid processing proteins in the ocular ciliary epithelium (CE), and to compare in cultured ciliary epithelial cell lines promoter activities of the cellular retinaldehyde binding protein (CRALBP) and interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP). METHODS Retinoid processing proteins were detected by RT-PCR, western analysis and immunocytochemistry. P...

We develop a field theoretical approach to the cold interstellar medium (ISM). We show that a non-relativistic self-gravitating gas in thermal equilibrium with variable number of atoms or fragments is exactly equivalent to a field theory of a single scalar field φ(~x) with exponential self-interaction. We analyze this field theory perturbatively and non-perturbatively through the renormalizatio...

The study objective was to compare levels of gingival crevicular fluid (GCF), MCP-1 and RANTES in peri-partum women with periodontal disease to healthy controls. This is secondary analysis of Oral Conditions and Pregnancy (OCAP), a case-control study. Subjects (N=80) were stratified post-hoc based on periodontal status. An oral exam was performed within 72 hours after delivery. Cases (n=42) had...

I N the chalcidoid wasp Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) there has been formed by mutation a series of multiple allelic genes, each differing from wild type in one or more factors. The term “factor” is here used in an inclusive sense to denote anything which has an effect on development or which can in any other way be detected. The genes in this “R’ series are pleiotropic, unifactorial, bifact...

Despite recent progress achieved in elucidating the mechanisms underlying local adaptation to pollution, little is known about the evolutionary change that may be occurring at the molecular level. The goal of this study was to examine patterns of gene transcription and biochemical responses induced by metal accumulation in clean yellow perch (Perca flavescens) and metal depuration in contaminat...

We consider Symmetric Searchable Encryption with Sharing and Unsharing (SSEwSU), a notion thatmodels Symmetric Searchable Encryption (SSE) in a multi-user setting in which documents can bedynamically shared and unshared among users. Previous works on SSE involving multiple users haveassumed that all users have access to the same set of documents and/or their security models assume<l...