Mast seeding, or masting, is the variable production of flowers, seeds, or fruit across years more or less synchronously by individuals within a population. A critical issue is the extent to which temporal variation in seed production over a collection of individuals can be viewed as arising from a combination of individual variation and synchrony among individuals. Studies of masting typically...

The purpose of this study was to examine the association of glucose variability using coefficient of variation of fasting plasma glucose (FPG-CV) and coefficient of variation of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c-CV) to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in 31,841 Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.Patients with type 2 diabetes enrolled in National Diabetes Care Management Program, aged ≧30 years, and f...

PURPOSE To investigate reproducibility of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) to measure hepatic triglyceride content (HTGC). MATERIALS AND METHODS In 24 subjects, HTGC was evaluated using (1)H-MRS at 3.0 Tesla. We studied "between-weeks" reproducibility and reproducibility of (1)H-MRS in subjects with fatty liver. We also studied within liver variability and within day reproduc...

(i) From figure 4 (Grzebyk et al., 2005), the French method (Method 1) of appraisal of the quality of the results of analysts involved in fibre counting by PCOM is, at least theoretically, quite a lot more stringent than the other two methods discussed. However, in practice in the field (table 2, Grzebyk et al., 2005), the French method is a little bit less demanding (‘selective’) than the RICE...

within-field variation of wheat yield and spatial pattern of weed density and soil nitrogen were evaluated by geostatistical methods. samples were taken from a 90×120 m area located in a 3.8 ha wheat field. soil nitrogen content and weed density at tillering and wheat yield at maturity were measured in 1 m2 plots located at the center of 10×10 m grids. grain yield was varied between 1.5-4.9 t h...

purpose this preliminary study aimed to determine the intrarater reliability of the quantitative tests for the study of non-specific low back pain. methods test-retest reliability of the measurements of ratio data was determined by an intraclass correlation coefficient (icc), standard error of measurements (sems), coefficient of variation (cv), and one-way repeated measures anova using the valu...

in order to determinate appropriate stability parameters, six statistics were studied for flower yield stability of 35 rosa damascena landraces in 8 locations over two years (2007-8) in iran, using a randomized complete blocks design with 3 replications. a positive correlation between environmental variance (s2) and flower yield suggested that only low yield landraces develop a similar phenotyp...