the objective of the current study was to evaluate the reproducibility of a reverse transcriptase pcr (rt-pcr)-based technique to differentiate viable and dead salmonella cells in raw and sterilized milk. the microorganism was initially inoculated into the milk samples followed by incubating at 37°c for 4 h prior to inactivation by heat at 80°c for 10 min. the treated and non-treated samples we...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with the blood pressure (BP) reverse-dipper pattern in patients with hypertension. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Single centre. PARTICIPANTS Patients with essential hypertension were included in our study (n=708). The exclusion criteria included age <18 or >90 years, incomplete clinical data, ni...

The electrooxidation of methanol in both acidic and alkaline media on poly-crystalline platinum under the regime of cyclic voltammetry is analyzed by application of quadratic logistic equation. The current-charge curves in the anodic cycles fit the logistic differential equation reasonably well and are accounted on the basis of the non-linearity of the kinetics and the effect of positive feedba...

The common practice of collapsing inherently continuous or ordinal variables into two categories causes information loss that may potentially weaken power to detect effects of explanatory variables and result in Type II errors in statistical inference. The purpose of this investigation was to illustrate, using a substantive example, the potential increase in power gained from an ordinal instead...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the level of serum cystatin C (s-CC) and reverse-dipper blood pressure (BP) pattern. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Single centre. PARTICIPANTS A total of 718 hypertensive patients were eventually recruited from cardiac clinics between 2012 and 2014 in the Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University. They were diagnosed as...

CONTEXT Basic studies have shown that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has critical roles in the survival, growth, maintenance, and death of central and peripheral neurons, while it is also involved in regulation of the autonomic nervous system. Furthermore, recent clinical studies have suggested potential role of plasma BDNF in the circulatory system. OBJECTIVE We investigated the mu...

Purpose The study aims to propose a circular economy-based reverse logistics (CERL) that emphasises the mediation effect of (RL) on sustainable resource commitment and financial performance. Design/methodology/approach structural equation modelling (SEM) approach has been applied analyse data acquired through survey method included 113 vendors automotive supplies 1st 2nd levels. Findings result...