MicroRNA (miR) are short non-coding RNAs known to post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression, and have been reported as biomarkers for various diseases. miR have also been served as potential drug targets. The identity, functions and detection of a specific miR are determined by its RNA sequence, whose composition is made up of only 4 canonical ribonucleotides. Hence, among over two thousa...

Mammographic density is one of the strongest predictors of breast cancer risk. Typically expressed as a percentage of the breast area occupied by radiologically dense tissue on a mammogram, its full value may not be realized because of its negative association with body mass index. A simpler measure of mammographic density, independent of other breast cancer risk factors and equally predictive ...

Over the last decade a large number of states have significantly altered their legal statutes concerning the disposition of divorce cases involving children. In particular, many states have increasingly employed percentage-expressed orders in which child support obligations in a given period are determined as a proportion of the contemporaneous income of the noncustodial parent. In contrast to ...

In Rob Neyer's chapter on San Francisco in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, he speculates that there aren't really good baseball cities, and that attendance more closely correlates with winning percentage than with any other factor. He also suggests that a statistically minded person look at this. I took the challenge and have been playing with a lot of data. This article is available at The C...

In order to determine the structure of benthic macroinvertebrates fauna in relation with some environmental factors, a study was carried out Esoa river at Nkongsamba Littoral region Cameroon from January 2021 2022. Physico-chemical parameters were measured according APHA and Rodier recommendations, while sampling done multihabitat approach monthly frequency. The physico-chemical analyses reveal...

in order to determine the genetics of barley lines for freezing resistance based on crown survival percentage an experiment was carried out as a split plot design on the basis of randomized complete blocks with two replications. forty barley lines were assigned in subplots and five freezing temperatures (-8, -11, -13, -15 and -17 ˚с) were allocated in main plots. the results showed significant ...

Despite its wide use in statistics, the logarithmic transformation can make non-statisticians uncomfortable. This is a shame because logarithms have very useful properties, including a secret not widely known even among statisticians. The two familiar forms of logarithm are common logs, to base 10, and natural logs, to base e. Here we focus on natural logs (or “ln” for short), which have the fo...