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... Salmonella and the hydrophobicity of the contact surface may positively influence the adhesion process (Chia et ...2008), and Salmonella has a greater adhesion capacity to surfaces made of stainless steel ... See full document

... baseline and follow-up surveys were for the most part well-established, having been used successfully in previous ...health and somatising tendency were taken from validated instruments, and have ... See full document

... this study four plants known for their biological activities were selected to endophytic fungi ...joints and limbs, and indurations of the prostate (11); Piptadenia adiantoides, popularly known as ... See full document

... lipids, and it provides no quantification of the lipid ...present study, oleaginous microorganisms were firstly enriched in high C/N medium, allowing them to accumulate a certain amount of ...appeared ... See full document

... our study, we investigated the workability of different DNA extraction methods on ...kit) and P (PowerSoil DNA isolation kit) yielded lower concentrations of DNA after ...kit, and FastDNA SPIN kit) ... See full document

... validity and hypoth- esis ...negatively and moderately correlated with the total and physical scores of SF-36 ...greater study sample, as it was used in the original validation ... See full document

... including study design, study location, procedure, sample size, and ...pre-operative and post-operative utility scores, as well as the instrument used to collect the utility ... See full document

... Such relation may be weaker or stronger depending on the criterion for sampling. Indeed, the number of trees affected the performance of the volume model, but it was mainly observed when few trees were sampled. More ... See full document

... the study, to minimize information bias, validated and cali- brated equipment was used to obtain the Phe values, although this technology is now undergo- ing radical changes since the introduction of ... See full document

... (n=105) and E. coli (n=50) were the GN species most prevalent in the study which were isolated from all body sites ...microbiota and involves factors such as water content, and the practice of ... See full document

... the sample and the mixture was incubated for 1 h at 65 °C with gentle agitation every 15 ...tube and 1 ml PEG solution (13% PEG 8000, ...temperature and then centrifuged at room temperature ... See full document

... numbers and names of the students entering in the first semester and of those in each ...the study. Data collection is to be scheduled in each class according to available dates, under the ... See full document

... simple and inexpensive measurements, apart from having a role in the diagnosis and prognosis of a number of neuromuscular and pulmonary disorders, have been associated with health status, physical ... See full document

... strengths and limitations that have to be addressed. A major strength of the study is that the European Social Survey database includes a large and representative sample size of various ... See full document

... positive and negative sera were determined. Diagnostic accuracy of tests and the cut-off threshold were analyzed according to receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, using Win Episcope ... See full document

... serologically and known as SEA, SEB, SEC, SED, SEE, SEG, SEH, SEI and ...this study were: (i) to determine counts of total and faecal coliforms, aerobic mesophilic bacteria, Staphylococcus ... See full document

... this study support the conclusion that there are three distinct segments of members in the team that was examined, named as ‘Occasional’, ‘Die-hard’, and ‘Weekend ...stadium and the overall service ... See full document

... newborns and infants. Design: The study was cross-sectional using auditory steady- state response assessment, and the real-ear-to-dial difference was measured in the external auditory ... See full document

... each study selected for inclusion was assessed by applying a 12- item quality checklist, derived from the STREGA statement (Strengthening the Reporting of Genetic Association Studies) [26] and other ... See full document

... 49 Springer S, Wang Y, Dal Molin M, Masica DL, Jiao Y, Kinde I, Blackford A, Raman SP, Wolfgang CL, Tomita T, Niknafs N, Douville C, Ptak J, Dobbyn L, Allen PJ, Klimstra DS, Schattner MA, Schmidt CM, Yip-Schneider M, ... See full document