The primate play-face is homologous to the human facial display accompanying laughter. Through facial mimicry, the play-face evokes in the perceiver a similar positive emotional state. This sensorimotor and emotional sharing can be adaptive, as it allows individuals to fine-tune their own motor sequences accordingly thus increasing cooperation in play. It has been recently demonstrated that, no...

The rational function model (RFM) is a generic form of many sensor models. The universal real-time image geometry model recommended by the OpenGIS consortium is essentially based on the RFM. Many data vendors are or will be supporting the RFM based solutions by providing rational function coefficients (RFCs). With known RFCs, the end users will be able to rectify the imagery using the RFM witho...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of transversely sloped ballasted walking surface on gait and rearfoot motion (RFM) parameters. Motion analysis was performed with 20 healthy participants (15 male and 5 female) walking in six surface-slope conditions: two surfaces (solid and ballasted) by three slopes (0, 5, and 10 degrees). The gait parameters (walking velocity, step len...

The recent study of recommendation systems and RFM method has been applied to analyze customers’ consumption property and the re-purchasing ability. The RFM method employs Recency(R), Frequency(F), and Monetary(M) to measure customers’ consumption loyalty. And the recommendation systems mainly to promote products for increasing profit. However, there are some problems because they ignore the re...

The FGS/Nga mouse strain, established from an outcross between CBA/N and RFM/Nga mice strains, has previously been reported as a spontaneous mouse model for focal glomerular sclerosis (FGS) and is considered to have two pairs of autosomal recessive genes associated with FGS. In this study, we examined the changes of seven renal lesion-related parameters, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, a...

N(2)-methylguanosine is one of the most universal modified nucleosides required for proper function in transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules. In archaeal tRNA species, a specific S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent tRNA methyltransferase (MTase), aTrm11, catalyzes formation of N(2)-methylguanosine and N(2),N(2)-dimethylguanosine at position 10. Here, we report the first X-ray crystal structures of ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a blanket systemic preventive treatment (PT) of cows having retained fetal membranes (RFM) with 1 mg/kg of ceftiofur administered the first day after calving regardless of their body temperature. This strategy was compared with a selective treatment (ST) strategy in which only cows having RFM and a rectal temperature > or = 39.5 degree...

The R-Function Method (RFM) solution structure is a functional expression that satisfies all given boundary conditions exactly and contains some undetermined functional components. It is complete if there exists a choice of undetermined component that transform the solution structure into an exact solution. Such a structure was used by Kantorovich (Kantorovich and Krylov, 1958) and his students...

PROBLEM Inflammation during pregnancy has devastating consequences for the placenta and fetus. These events are incompletely understood, thereby hampering screening and treatment. METHOD OF STUDY The inflammatory profile of villous tissue was studied in pregnancies at high-risk of placental dysfunction and compared to uncomplicated pregnancies. The systemic inflammatory profile was assessed i...

Objectives To characterize the infrastructure of public pharmacies in Minas Gerais, comparing municipalities that have received the RFM program to the ones that haven't, in order to verify if the State's Economic Incentives implied in improvement of local Pharmaceutical Services (PS). Methods A cross-sectional, exploratory, evaluative study in a representative sample of the municipalities of ...