OBJECTIVES To examine the association between fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption and muscle strength and power in an adolescent population. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis among 1019 boys and 998 girls, aged 12 and 15 years, who participated in The Young Hearts Project. FV consumption (excluding potatoes) was assessed by 7-d diet history. Grip strength and jump power was ass...

Retroviral vectors based on foamy viruses (FV) are efficient gene delivery vehicles for therapeutic and research applications. While previous studies have shown that FV vectors transduce quiescent cell cultures more efficiently than oncoviral vectors, their specific cell cycle requirements have not been determined. Here we compare the transduction frequencies of FV vectors with those of onco- a...

Factor V (FV; proaccelerin or labile factor) is the plasma cofactor for the prothrombinase complex that activates prothrombin to thrombin. FV deficiency can be caused by mutations in the FV gene or in genes encoding components of a putative cargo receptor that transports FV (and factor VIII) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi. Because FV is present in platelet alpha-granules as well as...

During the 2014-2017 period, wheat samples were collected from discoloured spikes affected by Fusarium head blight (FHB) 20 locations in Serbia. After isolation, fungi cultivated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 25oC for 7 days. Based situ identification PDA, 36 isolates of section Liseola selected further analyses. The pathogenicity all was confirmed leaves. virulence determined measuring leng...

BACKGROUND An effect of increased fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption on facial attractiveness has been proposed and recommended as a strategy to promote FV intakes, but no studies to date demonstrate a causal link between FV consumption and perceived attractiveness. This study investigated perceptions of attractiveness before and after the supervised consumption of 2, 5 or 8 FV portions/day f...

Friend leukemia virus suppresses the proliferative responses of normal thymus-dependent (T) and bursa equivalent-dependent (B) lymphocytes from spleen, thymus, lymph node, and bone marrow to mitogens. The suppressive effect of Friend virus complex (FV) requires fully infectious virions. Friend erythroleukemic cells, washed to removed extracellular virus, fail to suppress concanavalin A (Con-A)-...

Human coagulation factor V (FV) is an essential coagulation protein with functions in both the pro- and anticoagulant pathways. Failure to express and control FV functions can either lead to bleeding, or to thromboembolic disease. Both events may develop into a life-threatening condition. Since the first description of APC resistance, and in particular the description of the so-called factor V(...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systemwith relevance feedback, which uses the algorithm for feature-vector (FV) dimension reduction, is described. Feature-vector reduction (FVR) exploits the clustering of FV components for a given query. Clustering is based on the comparison of magnitudes of FV components of a query. Instead of all FV components describing color, line directions, and textu...

We study the consistency and convergence of the cell-centered Finite Volume (FV) external approximation of H 0 (Ω), where a 2D polygonal domain Ω is discretized by a mesh of convex quadrilaterals. The discrete FV derivatives are defined by using the so-called Taylor Series Expansion Scheme (TSES). By introducing the Finite Difference (FD) space associated with the FV space, and comparing the FV...

BACKGROUND Parental support is a key influence on children's health behaviours; however, no previous investigation has simultaneously explored the influence of mothers' and fathers' social support on eating and physical activity in preschool-aged children. This study evaluated the singular and combined effects of maternal and paternal support for physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable c...