The debate of whether body-mass index (BMI) or waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is the primary visual cue to female physical attractiveness (FPA) has generated considerable interest. However, experiments addressing this question typically have limited ecological validity and do not capture the ultimate goal of FPA, which is to elicit male sexual arousal. Hence, using an unobtrusive measures design, we ...

To provide more information on the pathways of fibrinogen catabolism in generalized cancer. the effect of heparin on fibrinopeptide A (fpA) and on 1251-fibrinogen kinetics was studied in 1 5 patients with disseminated neoplasia. Three patients had evidence of venous thrombosis and in 2 additional patients a low fibrinogen level together with increased amounts of FDP/fdp and a positive ethanol t...

This contribution deals with problems related to an effort estimation of the software projects which are connected to the development of secured products. The aim of this contribution is to present an option of an effective consideration of the effort which is connected with the software products development. The FPA and COCOMO II methods for cost estimation are extended by the security factors...

To determine whether coronary thrombosis in vivo is reflected by elevations in levels of fibrinopeptide A (FPA) in plasma, we sequentially characterized plasma FPA levels associated with evolving infarction in patients admitted to the cardiac care unit early after the onset of symptoms, in patients with transmural infarction admitted later, and in patients with nontransmural infarction. Studies...

Although the mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of primary pulmonary hypertension have not yet been delineated, thrombosis has been implicated. This study was designed to determine whether thrombin activity as reflected by plasma concentrations of fibrinopeptide A (FPA), a marker of the action of thrombin on fibrinogen, is increased in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension. To ev...

This paper describes an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (I-ELISA) and a fluorescence polarisation assay (FPA), each capable of detecting antibody in several species of hosts to smooth and rough members of the genus Brucella. The I-ELISA uses a mixture of smooth lipopolysaccharide (SLPS) and rough lipopolysaccharide (RLPS) as the antigen, and a recombinant protein A/G conjugated with ...

p-Fluorophenylalanine (FPA) causes a 100-fold increase in alkaline phosphatase in Escherichia coli B, strain PR1 at 30 C in minimal medium that contains excess inorganic phosphate (1.92 x 10(-3)m). Little increase in alkaline phosphatase synthesis occurs under these conditions at 22 C. [This strain is known to have a mutation in a regulator gene (R(2)) that, in the absence of FPA, permits derep...

AIM Determine the optimal cut-off and the use of Fluorescence Polarization Assay (FPA) to improve the detection of brucellosis in individual goats in Argentina. METHODS Sera from 96 goats from a flock with abortion due to B. melitensis biovar 1 were used to assess the efficacy of the FPA to detect brucellosis in goats. FPA results were compared with those of the Buffered Antigen Plate Aggluti...

The purpose of this paper is to characterize Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) in post-Cold War Poland. scope text limited FPA, understood as empirical research utilizing foreign policy theories by taking into account factors at the domestic level. “Polish FPA”is defined conducted scholars employed focuses on five aspects Polish FPA: (1) historical context, (2) teaching covering subject, (3) develo...

The main intent of the cloud computing to provide utilities demands users that are booming day by day. To meet requirements, existing scheduling algorithms focus on improving performance and neglecting energy consumed fulfill those demands. Hence, we propose a new Hybrid Scheduling Algorithm (HS) which is based Genetic (GA) Flower Pollination (FPA) for environments. proposed algorithm has surpa...