OBJECTIVE To validate the instrument of the World Health Organization Violence Against Women (WHO VAW) study on psychological, physical and sexual violence against women perpetrated by intimate partners. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted in several countries between 2000 and 2003, including Brazil. Representative random samples of women aged 15-49 years with intimate partners...

BACKGROUND Manufacture of MATa and MATα yeast cells is required for crossbreeding, a procedure that permits hybridization and the generation of new heterozygous strains. Crossbreeding also can be performed with a- and α-type of cells, which have the same mating abilities as MATa and MATα haploid cells, respectively. RESULTS In this work, we describe a method to generate a- and α-type of cells...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), a loosely coupled network of problem solvers that work together in order to resolve problems which are beyond an individual capabilities or knowledge of each problem solver, a task which other legendary paradigms say for client-server model and many distributed environments fails to do so, pose problems for scalability, reliability etc. in the development of complex d...

Acetylation is the most frequently occurring chemical modification of the alpha-NH2 group of eucaryotic proteins and is catalyzed by N alpha-acetyltransferase. The yeast enzyme is encoded by the AAA1 (amino-terminal alpha-amino acetyltransferase) gene. A null mutation (aaa1-1) created by gene replacement, while not lethal, slows cell growth and results in heterogeneous colony morphology. In com...

Q. Zhang,1 J. Zhang,1 M. I. B. Utama,1 B. Peng,1 M. de la Mata,2 J. Arbiol,2,3 and Qihua Xiong1,4,* 1School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, PAP 04-14, 21 Nanyang Link, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore 2Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain 3Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanç...

Previous studies demonstrated that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was uniparentally transmitted in laboratory crosses of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. To begin understanding the mechanisms, this study examined the potential role of the mating-type locus on mtDNA inheritance in C. neoformans. Using existing isogenic strains (JEC20 and JEC21) that differed only at the mating-type locus...

Article history: Received 21 September 2009 Received in revised form 23 August 2010 Accepted 23 August 2010 Available online 8 September 2010 Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in computing cosine similarity in many application domains. Most previous studies require the specification of a minimum similarity threshold to perform the cosine similarity computation. However, it is us...

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Several recent papers use the quantile regression decomposition method of Machado and Mata (2005) to analyze the gender gap across log wage distributions. In this paper, we prove that this procedure yields consistent and asymptotically normal estimates of the quantiles of the counterfactual distribution that it is designed to simulate. Since employment rates often differ substantially by gender...

Incubation with a high concentration of a mating pheromone, alpha factor, of Saccharomyces cerevisiae induced the accumulation of Ca2+ ion in MATa cells, but not in MAT alpha or MATa/alpha cells, after a lag of 30-40 min. The alpha factor did not cause a nonspecific lesion of the membrane barrier, but induced Ca2+ transport activity specifically. This induction of Ca2+ transport activity correl...