Examples of viability

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The remaining embryos in each group that developed to the blastocyst stage were cryopreserved to evaluate cryotolerance and viability.
Granulocyte-macrophage colonystimulating factor promotes glucose transport and blastomere viability in murine preimplantation embryos.
Viability of isolated cone ellipsoids was tested by 30- 60 s incubation with 0.01% toluidine blue.
Effect of various procedures on the viability of mouse embryos containing half of the normal number of blastomeres.
Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species.
To lend empirical support for the viability of the classifications, we assessed correlations of the classifications with word classes.
Staff costs dominate the costs of care, and not surprisingly providers identified increases in salaries and wages as eroding their financial viability.
Section four illustrates the viability and challenge of such applications by giving some relatively new examples from the area of robotics.
If there is no signature requirement, potential new party elites have no such immediate cue for assessing their viability and that may discourage their entry.
Under conditions of severe scarcity, or when the relative viability of different infants varies significantly, the costs of getting the trade-off wrong could be high.
However, it must be considered that these semi-quantitative changes may reflect a reduction in the viability or health of the worms during in vitro maintenance.
The report also identifies ten essential elements of manufacturing enterprise leadership and discusses the importance of strategic alignment for successful long-term competitiveness and business viability.
Extraction of naturally buried seeds from soil, followed by determination of viability, is probably the least ambiguous means of estimating longevity.
The initial viability of the seeds was estimated using 3 batches of 100 untreated seeds that were germinated at the start of storage.
The ancestral mean viability was depressed by about 0n7 % per 1 % increase in inbreeding coefficient, indicating strong directional dominance of some of the loci involved.
Variations in physician documentation practices are substantial and affect the care offered to infants at the threshold of viability.
First, because it estimates the frequencies of genotypes from control chambers, it controls for any deleterious effects of genetic markers on viability.
Structural adjustment policies, it is argued, have chipped away at the peasantry's economic viability, social coherence and class position.
The reduction of viability as water was removed from tissues clearly demonstrated that the tissues were damaged by the drying process.
However, we have observed that some exposure to atmospheric molecular oxygen may have limited, if any, effect on viability of certain methanogens.
The cell viability in each suspension, which was determined using a trypan blue exclusion method, was always greater than 95%.
Tumor necrosis factor alpha decreases the viability of mouse blastocysts in vitro and in vivo.
At least 500 oncospheres were examined, and samples containing moving oncospheres were considered viable; viability was not quantified.
Here eggs are likely to be at lower concentrations and have a lower viability due to greater exposure to desiccation and ultraviolet radiation.
Linear regressions of log-transformed viability data in relation with time were significant for every microhabitat, even though the explained variances differed.
The ministry's need to maintain organizational viability overshadowed any desires to maintain amiable relations with banks.
Potential members may in theory assume that their action is irrelevant to group viability and consequently (safely) free-ride.
Taken together, these results may indicate that homeostasis was progressively lost between days 3 and 5, even though viability was around 100%.
Table 1 summarizes the timeand dose-dependent changes in viability.
Therefore, to be effective, the fungi should pass through the gastrointestinal tract of the host without loss of viability.
A feature of the study was the determination of the viability of protoscoleces from hydatid cysts of livestock.
We will discuss viability of sample deposition on the surface, lunar site selection, and sample processing strategies for a future sample return mission.
However, questions have been raised about the viability and motivation for the project.
A flow cytometric method for assessing viability of intraerythrocytic hemoparasites.
The spore suspensions were tested for viability prior to and during the 7-day experimental period.
There is also some effect on the viability of larvae after hatching.
Long-term two-photon fluorescence imaging of mammalian embryos without compromising viability.
In the present study, we investigated the morphological change and viability of parenchymal microglial cells after transient ischemia and reperfusion.
Substantial evidence from a wide range of linguistic research is consistent with the model, but independent tests of its viability would be difficult to conduct.
Viability was also confirmed by life/death experiments using confocal microscopy.
Alternatively, stimulated microglia undergo senescence, demonstrated by reduced viability and mitotic activity, after several weeks in culture and in the absence of telomerase repression.
The presumption is that a firm may find itself in financial problems that are not connected to the long-term viability of the establishment.
I argue that the number-of-genes problem may nevertheless undermine the scientifically viability of this weaker adaptationist research strategy.
The number, stage of development, viability (dead or living), and the length of healthy parasitoids in parasitized hosts was recorded.
With viability a constant concern, there might be a tendency to prematurely withdraw life support from and not give appropriate care to patients.
Responses among neonatologists touched briefly on the issue of viability, but were remarkably less conflicted on the surface.
Countries may elect to link viability to some physiological standard, but there is no necessary reason to do so.
Properties of whole biofilms, such as architecture, cell viability, microbial composition and acidogenicity may be readily studied, for example by confocal microscopy.
Promoters that allow tissue specificity enable targeting gene expression to the most appropriate regions for controlling parasite viability or other purposes.
The viability of these activities is essential for wildlife conservation and has a twofold effect.
The experiments described here consider the in-uence of three management practices on crop micro-environment, tomato yield, and economic viability.
However, the temperature and moisture requirements for loss of viability during solarization are less clear.
Adequate maintenance of cartilage is essential for chondrocyte viability and, conversely, loss of chondrocytes adversely affects the tissue.
Improved outcome for infants at the limits of viability.
Viability at a homozygous locus is 1xs, where s is the unconditional selection coefficient against the mutation.
In these models, inbreeding depression is assumed to affect zygote-to-adult viability only.
Generations are non-overlapping and viability selection precedes migration.
Estimates of fitness made from these zygote numbers, using the discrete model, would give values proportional to the larval viability.
The survival of a zygote was determined by generating a random number and comparing it with the relative viability value of the zygote.
345 homozygous viability larger than 0n6 had viabilities larger than 0n85.
Therefore, over the 103 generation period considered, the mutational decline of viability was not significant (0n000 34p0n000 46).
Linkage of viability genes to marker loci in selfing organisms.
Finally, rescue of adult viability was noted for homozygous males of several excision lines, in both enhancer-trap strains.
With seed census, fertility and viability selection are not distinguishable and thus can only be estimated jointly.
Viability at a heterozygous locus is 1xhs, where h is the dominance coefficient.
On crossing, therefore, the viability and the number of lethal equivalents due to them return to the original values of the ancestral population.
From this study there does not appear to be an obvious optimum inbreeding rate as far as mean viability is concerned.
Between-line selection becomes more and more important with decreasing family size and mean viability.
Understanding this is important because correct placental development\\ function is necessary for correct fetal development\\ viability.
The first character which we have analysed genetically and molecularly is the pattern of viability of homozygotes during their pre-imaginal and early imaginal development.
Synergistic interaction of spontaneous mutant polygenes controlling viability.
The viability of this solution may deserve investigation.
The issue now was not just citizen competence, but persuading citizens of the viability of democracy in a time of crisis.
Depending on the political and economic viability of this region, political autonomy within a larger entity may be an attractive option for regional leaders.
However, the company faced problems related both to its immediate financial viability and to its long-term development.
The second stage demonstrates the agronomic viability of new methods.
Not everyone agrees with the premise that one of the criteria for sustainability should include economic viability.
In the second phase, the data collection included 70 expert nurses who at the time of the study were specializing in tissue viability.
Combining the estimates of the probit intercept parameter and the control viability parameter gave an estimated initial percentage viability of 82%.
They further suggest a modified relationship for the log of the mean viability period as a function of storage temperature and moisture content.
Earlier germination tests had confirmed this to be a valid indicator of seed viability.
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