Mycobiota of maize seeds revealed by rDNA ‐ ITS sequence
analysis of samples with varying storage times — Hui — Qin Xing — Microbiology Open
They compared genetic
analyses of these samples with those from both parents (in 876 cases) as well as from 1,287 healthy children of European descent.
They compared the changes of helium - 4 levels from chemical
analyses of these samples with those from identical analyses performed in 2010.
Not exact matches
Along
with the advice on etiquette, there's a list
of 50 questions that Harvard has recently asked applicants and
analysis on how to prepare and answer them (Click here for a
sample).
Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies
of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence
of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta -
analysis of 22 independent
samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies
with context).
A new meta -
analysis of studies
with 102
samples covering 56,984 firms finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.
However,
with only 16 - 17 observations per calendar month, the
sample is very short for this kind
of analysis.
To test DR - CAPM on currencies, they rank a
sample of 53 currencies by interest rates into six portfolios, excluding for some
analyses those currencies in highest interest rate portfolio
with annual inflation at least 10 % higher than contemporaneous U.S. inflation.
Visual: Images
of a
sample financial plan that includes a goal
analysis page displaying account balances and a detailed goal
analysis with pie charts
of current and recommended investments in stocks and bonds.
This role will involve working closely
with the Winemaker in all aspects
of grape processing and production including, but not limited to: maturity
sampling /
analysis, receiving grapes, destemming / crushing, pressing, racking, yeast inoculations, fermentation monitoring, barrel work and laboratory testing.
In media releases associated
with the announcement, SCIEX states that traditional methods such as ELISA and PCR for allergen
analysis come
with several challenges, including detection accuracy in processed products and the cost
of testing for several allergens in the same
sample.
Regression
analyses of data from stratified, cluster
sample, household iodine surveys in Bangladesh, India, Ghana and Senegal were conducted to identify factors associated
with household access to adequately iodised salt.
The strengths
of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place
of birth at the start
of care in labour, the high participation
of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large
sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation
of selection bias through achievement
of a high response rate and absence
of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms
of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability
of the groups by conducting an additional
analysis restricted to women
with no complicating conditions identified at the start
of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.
In a convenience
sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high,
with Pearson correlation coefficients
of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat
analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.
log -LSB--RSB- indicates logarithm
of the OR; weight, weighting that the study contributed to the meta -
analysis (according to
sample size); IV, fixed, 95 % CI: fixed - effect OR
with 95 % CI.245
Power
analysis, based on detecting a significant difference in the combined frequency
of non-optimal factors during and after childbirth, led us to aim for a
sample size
of 1600 women,
with approximately half being multiparous and preferably half choosing hospital birth.
Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~
Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members
of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an
analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~
analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births
with a matched cohort
of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total
sample size ~ 80,000).
In the meta -
analysis for this outcome the previous version
of this review we included 40 trials
with 14,227 women (effective
sample size).
Given the small
sample of countries, it is not really feasible to carry out a regression
analysis with multiple competing predictors.
In the letter, Holt agreed
with the Justice Department's decision to bar examiners from stating that a pair
of fingerprints «originated from the same source to the absolute exclusion
of all» others or expressing a level
of certainty that is «absolute or numerically calculated» in an
analysis comparing
samples collected from crime scenes
with those known by authorities to belong to identified sources.
There appeared to be a correlation
of increased fold - change
with poorer patient survival, but the researchers say further
analysis of a larger
sample size is needed to make a definite conclusion.
«The minimum
sample volume required is only 1 µL for
analysis of 92 proteins, which has been proven to be a great advantage for applications
with limited
sample volumes, such as pediatric applications, fine - needle biopsies, and tumor microbiopsies,» he says.
Through their
analysis the researchers detected damaged proteins in characteristic patterns in the
samples of those patients
with early and advanced OA and RA, but were found at markedly lower levels in the
samples of those in the control group — providing the researchers
with the identifiable biomarkers necessary for early detection and diagnosis.
Abcam is working
with medical experts on developing specific guidelines to evaluate methods for CSF
sample collection and processing prior to miRNA
analysis,
with the aim
of maximizing detection.
In cancer research, our goal is to be able to start
with a
sample of human tissue, extract many cells
of interest, and perform genetic
analysis upon each
of them separately.
«Future studies
with larger
sample sizes combined
with machine learning
analysis may further aid the diagnostic and prognostic value
of structural MRI.»
«The prerequisite for this is that we are able to take the
samples for proteome and metabolome
analysis with spatial precision on the basis
of the images,» explains Bernd Pichler.
Yet a deeper
analysis of samples from six
of the volunteers
with the most promising antibodies revealed a surprise: Five
of them contained the same species
of nearly identical antibodies.
Dubbed the «lab - on - a-chip,» the device promises faster result times, reduced costs, minimal
sample demands and better sensitivity
of analysis when compared
with the conventional bench - top instruments now used to examine the tiny biomarkers.
Jamison finishes his sweep
of the roadside site, then heads back to his van
with a few beetles he'll keep as
samples for genetic
analysis.
The finding, reported by a Stand Up to Cancer - Prostate Cancer Foundation Dream Team in the May 21 edition
of the journal Cell, is based on an
analysis of tumor
samples from 150 men
with metastatic prostate cancer that no longer responded to standard hormone - blocking therapy.
Spearheaded by first author Christopher McNair, PhD, a graduate student in the laboratory
of Dr. Knudsen, the study undertook an extensive
analysis of tumor
samples and cell - free DNA
samples from patients
with advanced, lethal - stage prostate cancer.
The
analysis in this report relies primarily on data from a Pew Research Center survey
of the general public, using a probability - based
sample of the adult population by landline and cellular telephone Aug. 15 - 25, 2014,
with a representative
sample of 2,002 adults nationwide.
A global
analysis of metabolites and small molecules in urine
samples from patients
with adrenal cancer has identified four biochemicals that, when measured together, can distinguish malignant from benign adrenal tumors, according to study results presented at the 2015 Annual Clinical Congress
of the American College
of Surgeons.
The researchers performed a metabolomics
analysis, testing blood
samples from a group
of mice
with the disorder and from a control group.
Analysis of blood
samples taken at several points in time from a group
of patients
with different forms
of advanced metastatic breast cancer found CTC clusters in the blood
of 35 percent
of patients and that the survival
of those
with more clusters in their blood was significantly reduced.
The researchers conducted a meta -
analysis of all the available literature on IQ in OCD
samples versus non-psychiatric controls (98 studies), and found that contrary to the prevailing myth, OCD is not associated
with superior IQ, but
with normative IQ that is slightly lower compared to control
samples.
«I was surprised how «gender blind» the premises,
analysis and conclusions were, starting
with the definition
of what constitutes an «elite life scientist,»» which heavily skewed the
sample toward male representation, Pollitzer writes in an email to Science Careers.
Additionally,
analyses of patient tissue
samples showed that AEG - 1 and Akt2 expression correlated
with GBM progression and reduced patient survival.
Overall, Govindarajan said the project met the primary objective, testing the feasibility
of SUPR - REMUS for
sampling in coastal waters: «We were thrilled
with the first results for robotic
sampling coupled
with genetic
analysis.
The
sampling system combines three cutting edge technologies — an adapted Suspended Particulate Rosette (SUPR) multi-sampler, a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle equipped
with sensors, and identification
of organisms by DNA barcode
analysis.
Building on this research in their latest study, the team analysed liver
samples from 2000 patients
with Hepatitis C, using state -
of - the art genetic and functional
analysis, to determine the specific IFNL protein responsible for liver fibrosis.
«This is a conspicuously large
sample size,» said University
of Illinois psychology professor Brent Roberts, who led the
analysis with postdoctoral researcher Rodica Damian (now a professor
of psychology at the University
of Houston).
«A retrospective
analysis of the CHD1 gene in these
samples may reveal the potential utility
of CHD1 as a biomarker for improved prostate cancer patient stratification and targeted therapy
with PARP inhibitors,» notes Johnsen.
To test whether Japanese encephalitis virus could be successfully identified from the
samples, the researchers carried out a retrospective
analysis on cerebrospinal fluid for patients tested for the virus between 2009 — 2015 in Laos,
with a total
of 132
samples containing sufficient fluid volume for testing.
Limitations
of the study acknowledged include the difficulty in isolating SSRI effects from those
of their indications for use, lack
of information on SSRI dosage precluded dose - response
analyses, and the relatively small
sample of DD children resulted in imprecise estimates
of association, which should be viewed
with caution.
«This may be the most thorough
analysis yet
of blood
samples of patients infected
with the Ebola virus.»
These
samples will be the property
of humanity,
with sustainable international governance ensuring their preservation as well as their exceptional and appropriate use, in order to enable future generations
of scientists to carry out unprecedented
analyses.
The researchers are also planning to conduct further
analyses of patient
samples to confirm their results, and are working
with Charité - based cardiologists to determine the role
of adipose tissue in patients
with heart failure within the clinical setting.
By longitudinal
analysis blood
samples retrieved from persons who have received the Ebola vaccine, the researchers could show that a group
of cytokines measured in plasma within seven days
of the vaccine injection correlates
with antibody responses developed six months later.