Accurate, nonintrusive, and inexpensive techniques are needed to measure energy expenditure (EE) in free-living populations. Our primary aim in this study was to validate cross-sectional time series (CSTS) and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) models based on observable participant characteristics, heart rate (HR), and accelerometer counts (AC) for prediction of minute-by-minute E...

Cumulative toxicity from weekly paclitaxel (myalgia, peripheral neuropathy, fatigue) compromises long-term administration. Preclinical data suggest that the burden of critically short telomeres (< 3 kilobases, CSTs), but not average telomere length by itself, accounts for limited tissue renewal and turnover capacity. The impact of this parameter (which can be modified with different therapies) ...

Abstract Cu 2 SrSnS 4 (CSTS) is a promising alternative candidate to ZnSnS (CZTS) for single- or multi-junction photovoltaics (PVs) owing its efficient light-absorbing capability, earth-abundant, nontoxic constituents, and suitable defect properties. However, as novel absorber material, several fundamental properties need be characterized before further progress can made in CSTS photovoltaics. ...

In view of the poor accuracy and unsatisfactory effect shrinkage compensation for concrete-filled steel tubular structures large cross-sea bridge (CSTS-LCSB), a new technology CSTS-LCSB is proposed. The mechanism analyzed, including plastic shrinkage, dry autogenous carbonation shrinkage. proportion in ordinary concrete high-strength determined. has different forms environments, strain state en...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the cervical microbiota in women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) by pyrosequencing and to document associations between cervical microbiota, cervical inflammatory response, microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity (MIAC), histological chorioamnionitis, and intraamniotic infection (IAI). STUDY DESIGN Sixty-one women with singleton pregnancies complicate...

With the withdrawal of state from local sport provision in UK, Community Sport Trusts (CSTs) have grown significantly. The growth CSTs is a direct outcome neoliberal and austerity policy contexts UK. Research on commodification services delivered by hybrid social organizations suggests tensions between mission market (internal purpose versus external control). Yet little research to date has be...

GenoMiner is a software tool that searches for regions of similarity between user-submitted genome or transcript sequences and user-specified whole genome assemblies. The program then identifies conserved sequence tags (CSTs) in these homologous regions and provides a prediction of their coding or non-coding nature. The analysis is carried out through three steps: (1) definition of sequence reg...

The identi®cation of conserved sequence tags (CSTs) through comparative genome analysis may reveal important regulatory elements involved in shaping the spatio-temporal expression of genetic information. It is well known that the most signi®cant fraction of CSTs observed in human±mouse comparisons correspond to protein coding exons, due to their strong evolutionary constraints. As we still do n...

The identification of conserved sequence tags (CSTs) through comparative genome analysis may reveal important regulatory elements involved in shaping the spatio-temporal expression of genetic information. It is well known that the most significant fraction of CSTs observed in human-mouse comparisons correspond to protein coding exons, due to their strong evolutionary constraints. As we still do...

Background: Recent studies of various human microbiome habitats have revealed thousands of bacterial species and the existence of large variation in communities of microorganisms in the same habitats across individual human subjects. Previous efforts to summarize this diversity, notably in the human gut and vagina, have categorized microbiome profiles by clustering them into community state typ...