The supernatant was collected after being stored at 4°C for one hour, centrifuged at 15,000 g for 5 min at 4°C; the protein concentration was determined with a Nanodrop ND-1000 Spectrophotometer using the conversion of 1 absorbance unit at 280 nm wavelength = 1 mg protein/ml and stored at -80°C for later use.
Grain-size diameters in millimetres are converted to phi units using the conversion formula: phi = - log2S, where ϕ is size expressed in phi units and S is the grain size in millimetres.
The number of colony-forming units was adjusted using the conversion table provided by the manufacturer and was expressed in colony-forming units per cubic meter (CFU/m).
Cut-off values for the nNO test, were usually reported in parts per billion (ppb) and were transformed to NO production rate units (nl/min), using the conversion formula concentration (ppb) × sampling rate (L/min) as used previously [ 7], in order to account for the used different flow rates.
All of the raw data for direct energy inputs in physical units (Table 2) are also converted into thermal units (Fig. 2) using the conversion factors in Table 3.
The AUC was converted from energy units of pNnm to kBT using the conversion, 1 kBT ∼ 4.1 pNnm (Nelson, 2004).
Scattered light units were converted to optical density using the conversion factor (OD660 = background subtracted scattered light unit/22.93).
The values refer to the period from 2005 to 2010 and are expressed in units of Mt CO2 (conversion from Mt C using the conversion factor of 44/12 = 3.67).
For example, when using the GLS conversion units, only three variables result significantly for the transition between not being at a higher risk to becoming a higher risk drinker among women and with the same signs as before age, loneliness and income while for men loneliness, age and income cease to be significantly associated with ceasing to be in a high-risk category.
In human Toxicology, lead in blood concentration is usually expressed in μg Pb/dl of blood, for conversion to SI units we can use the conversion factor for SI units: 1 μg/dl = 0.04826 μmol/L.
