cells along the proximodistal (PD) axis concomitantly with remodelling of the pre-existing stump, making the regenerated legs shorter than normal. In contrast, knockdown of the expanded (ex) or Merlin (Mer) transcripts induced over-proliferation of the regenerating cells, making the regenerated legs longer. These results are consistent with those obtained using rdRNAi during intercalary regener...

cells along the proximodistal (PD) axis concomitantly with remodelling of the pre-existing stump, making the regenerated legs shorter than normal. In contrast, knockdown of the expanded (ex) or Merlin (Mer) transcripts induced over-proliferation of the regenerating cells, making the regenerated legs longer. These results are consistent with those obtained using rdRNAi during intercalary regener...

This paper describes the declination trends of f0 in conversational speech data. A 10-minute dialogue interaction from a corpus of spontaneous speech was annotated to identify intersilence units (ISU) and turns. Detailed annotation of the ISUs was conducted in terms of communicative types and pitch patterns. f0 declination was measured by (1) fitting a regression line to f0 trajectories and (2)...

Background: Left ventricular (LV) systolic function during atrial fibrillation (AF) is positively correlated with an index of ventricular cycle-length irregularity, the ratio of preceding R-R interval to pre-preceding R-R interval (RRp/RRpp). This study was designed to elucidate the relationship between the RRp/RRpp ratio and LV function, and to identify factors which influence the relationship...

OBJECTIVE This study examined patterns of change in adiposity across four decades starting in young adulthood as well as associations between change and midlife cardiometabolic outcomes. METHODS BMI was assessed at ages 20, 40, 56, and 62 years in 977 male veterans from the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging. Age 62 (range 56-66) cardiometabolic outcomes included hypertension, diabetes, dyslipid...

A novel optical approach is proposed for cancerous tumor detection using transient radiation signals. In this method, target tissue is illuminated by near-infrared ultrashort laser pulses from various surface source points, and backscattered time-resolved light signals are collected at the same surface points. By analyzing the log-slopes of decaying signals over all points on the source-detecti...

It is sometimes difficult to design a rubble mound structure along the shorelines of lakes located in mountainous environments, due typical extreme steepness underwater profile. A stable requires that underlying bed slope at least, say, 2H:3V, and addition there must be some space accommodate small horizontal berm. The berm stability assumes an importance, obviously. This research, funded by Br...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between exercise intensity and oxygen uptake during graded exercise in paediatric patients who underwent surgical repair of congenital heart disease, and to compare it with conventional measures of aerobic exercise function. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Exercise testing was performed on a treadmill and gas exchange was measured on a breath by breath basis. ...

The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and revised USLE (RUSLE) are often used to estimate soil erosion at regional landscape scales, however a major limitation is the difficulty in extracting the LS factor. The geographic information system-based (GIS-based) methods which have been developed for estimating the LS factor for USLE and RUSLE also have limitations. The unit contributing area-base...

The early life history 7 Abstract The relationship between the biomass of reproductively mature individuals (spawning stock) and the resulting offspring added to the population (recruitment), the stock–recruitment relationship, is a fundamental and challenging problem in all of population biology. The steepness of this relationship is commonly defined as the fraction of recruitment from an unfi...