531 PROBLEMS WITH DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS 531 PROBLEMS WITH COMMON METAPHORS AND MODELS 533 The Blank Screen Metaphor 533 The X-Ray Metaphor 534 The Need for an Informed Conceptual Framework 535 THE BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE PROCESS MODEL 535 Self-Expressive and Organizational Components 535 The Projective Test Stimulus Situation 536 Processing the Stimulus Situation 536 The Free-Response Format...

The central message of this paper is that nobody should be using the sample covariance matrix for the purpose of portfolio optimization. It contains estimation error of the kind most likely to perturb a mean-variance optimizer. In its place, we suggest using the matrix obtained from the sample covariance matrix through a transformation called shrinkage. This tends to pull the most extreme coeff...

Five commercial wheat varieties, namely C 306, HI 977, HW 2004, PBW 550 and WH 542 of diverse baking performances were examined for their physicochemical parameters, gluten quality and HMW-GS composition. All the varieties presented a broad spectrum of different quality parameters.Based on the kernel dimensions, thousand kernel weight and hectolitre weight, WH 542 was observed to have smaller a...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women, and one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Recent evidences indicate that dietary agents such as resveratrol may inhibit cancer progression through modulation of microRNAs (miRNAs). We demonstrate that resveratrol regulates apoptotic and cell cycle machinery in breast cancer cells by modulating key tumor-supp...

The study of mycobiota remains relatively unexplored due to the lack of sufficient available reference strains and databases compared to those of bacterial microbiome studies. Deep sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions is the de facto standard for fungal diversity analysis. However, results are often biased because of the wide variety of sequence lengths in the ITS regions and...

Abstract Aim NICE guidance currently recommends extending venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis to 28 days for patients who have undergone major cancer surgery in the abdomen. Literature highlights controversy around efficacy of prolonged treatment preventing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) potential areas improvement. Method Retrospective study urology colorectal unde...

The studies on screening of 15 varieties wheat viz., WH 1105, 1124, 1142, 283, 542, 711, 1080, 1025, 157, DBW 17, DPW 62150, HD 2967, PBW 343, C 306 and 147 for ovipositional preference (choice no choice test), adult emergence grain damage (number weight basis both) by S. oryzae were carried out under laboratory conditions during August to October, 2017. Results revealed that the minimum ovipos...