Photosynthesis and respiration are major components of the plant carbon balance. During stress, like drought, carbohydrate supply from photosynthesis is reduced and the Krebs cycle respiration must be fueled with other stored carbon compounds. However, the dynamics of storage use are still unknown. The respiratory quotient (RQ, CO2 released per O2 consumed during respiration) is an excellent in...

BACKGROUND High-risk individuals for CHD could be diagnosed by some non-invasive and low-priced techniques such as Minnesota ECG coding and rose angina questionnaire (RQ). OBJECTIVES The present study aimed at determining the risk of incident CHD according to ECG and RQ besides diabetes and other metabolic risk factors in our population. METHODS Participants comprised of 5431 individuals ag...

utilization patterns (Dilly, 2001), the microbial community structure (e.g., proportions of bacteria to fungi) The barometric process separation (BaPS) and 15N dilution tech(Klein, 1977) and abiotic factors such as soil moisture– niques were used to determine gross nitrification rates on the same soil cores from an old grassland soil. The BaPS-technique separates temperature relationships (Klei...

Let f : M → N be a Cr map between Cr manifolds (r ≥ 1) and K a Cr manifold. In this paper, by using the Sard theorem, we study the topological properties of the space of Cr maps g : K → N which satisfy a certain transversality condition with respect to f in a weak sense. As an application, by considering the case where K is a point, we obtain some new results about the topological properties of...

BACKGROUND Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to have functional roles in cancer biology and are dys-regulated in many tumors. Colon Cancer Associated Transcript -1 (CCAT1) is a lncRNA, previously shown to be significantly up-regulated in colon cancer. The aim of this study is to determine expression levels of CCAT1 in gastric carcinoma (GC). METHODS Tissue samples were obtained f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Resting energy expenditure (REE) and respiratory quotient (RQ) are important for optimal nutritional care. The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy and repeatability of an indirect calorimetry device (IIM-IC-100) in the measurement of REE and RQ in healthy Chinese adults. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A total of 38 healthy adults (19 male and 19 female) aged 1...

OBJECTIVE Drinking habits in children are associated with diet quality, but validated assessment tools for large-scale studies in young children are lacking. Therefore, we validated a self-completion 24 h recall questionnaire (RQ) focusing on beverage consumption with a 24 h weighed record (WR). DESIGN Thirty-five voluntary participants from the DONALD (Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric...

Vision is important for postural control as is shown by the Romberg quotient (RQ): with eyes closed, postural instability increases relative to eyes open (RQ = 2). Yet while fixating at far distance, postural stability is similar with eyes open and eyes closed (RQ = 1). Postural stability can be better with both eyes viewing than one eye, but such effect is not consistent among healthy subjects...

We construct the Euclidean Hopf algebra Uq(e ) dual of Fun(Rq >⊳SOq−1(N)) by realizing it as a subalgebra of the differential algebra Diff(Rq ) on the quantum Euclidean space Rq ; in fact, we extend our previous realization [1] of Uq−1(so(N)) within Diff(R N q ) through the introduction of q-derivatives as generators of q-translations. The fundamental Hilbert space representations of Uq(e N ) t...

begin{abstract} the relations between the spectrum of the matrix $q+r$ and the spectra of the matrices $(gamma + delta)q+(alpha + beta)r-qr-rq$, $qr-rq$, $alpha beta r-qrq$, $alpha rqr-(qr)^{2}$, and $beta r-qr$ have been given on condition that the matrix $q+r$ is diagonalizable, where $q$, $r$ are ${alpha, beta}$-quadratic matrix and ${gamma, delta}$-quadratic matrix, respectively, of order $...