We investigated the consistency over time in four behavioural tests (barrier-test, open-field, dark light and nose-in-hole-test), and used common voles (Microtus arvalis) in different life stages as a model organism.
ISTANBUL — With his triumphant tour of the countries of the Arab Spring this month, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to set up Turkey on the international stage as a role model for a secular democracy in a Muslim country — as, in his words, "a secular state where all religions are equal".
Egypt's brief and heady moment on the international stage in 2011, as a model of success in the Arab Spring's push for nonviolent political change, has been over for some time, but Tuesday's confirmation, by a high-court judge, of a death sentence against the former President Mohamed Morsi is a testament to that country's reversion to rank authoritarianism.
"Toronto is at the early stages of erosion as a model city," said Jack Layton, a City Council member and the past president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
The second contained only information on tumor stage and was used as a model of current clinical practice.
Our analyses indicate that this intermediate stage may be used as a model system to interpret the origin of oviposition (brood site) mimicry in Epipactis.
In Caenorhabditis elegans, the first larval stage has been established as a model system for the study of animal growth and development in response to food availability.
The proportion of variance was defined as McFadden adjusted R-square for the logistic regression; this is helpful in the model building stage as a statistic to evaluate competing models.
It is worth mentioning that epimastigotes of T. cruzi are not infective stages, but they serve as a model to analyze whether similar effects would be seen in the infective trypomastigote stage.
Results In this study, the authors describe the value of the yolk-metabolizing stages of the zebrafish as a model for studying lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
