BACKGROUND The measurement and meaning of disability depend on the indicators used. In this study the indicators of dependency and severe residual disability are examined on two levels: in each of the 14 selected activities of daily living (ADL) and also as a summary score of the activities count. METHODS The data are extracted of the Disability, Impairment and Health Survey (INE, 1999). The ...

Cytosol preparations contain an endogenous heat-stable factor which stabilizes the glucocorticoid receptor in its untransformed, non DNA-binding form. Elution of a partially purified preparation of this stabilizing factor through a metal chelating resin (Chelex-100) leads to the loss of its ability to inhibit temperature-mediated transformation of the receptor. Sodium molybdate mimicks the abil...

A pre-registered experiment was conducted to examine psychophysiological responses to being lied to. Bridging research on social cognition and deception detection, we hypothesized that observing a liar compared to a truth-teller would decrease finger skin temperature of observers. Participants first watched two targets while not forewarned that they would later be asked to judge (direct and ind...

This paper presents a remote and preparation-free method of temperature imaging of aqueous solutions in microchannels of microfluidic chips. The principle of this method is based on the temperature dependency of the near-infrared (NIR) absorption band (ν(2) + ν(3) band) of water. Temperature images were constructed from absorbances in a narrow wavelength range including 1908 nm, the most sensit...

Though cryogenic storage is presumed to provide nearly infinite longevity to cells, the actual shelf life achieved under ultra-cold temperatures has not been addressed theoretically or empirically. Here, we report measurable changes in germination of dried seeds stored under liquid nitrogen conditions for >10 years. There was considerable variability in the extent of deterioration among species...

Heat pumps with rotary compressors operating in low temperature ambient will face heavy performance degradation. A novel vapor injection structure on the blade for the rotary compressor has been proposed in this paper to overcome the back-flowing drawback of the traditional cylinder injection structure and enlarge the injection area. Based on a verified numerical model, the performance of a rot...

Transcription factors are proteins that are able to bind to certain segments of DNA to control gene expression. We present an improvement upon supervised learning approaches used for finding transcription factor binding sites. We look at binding sites of the same length for a single transcription factor and use the Berg and von Hippel scoring method. Pairwise information content of positional d...