Application of association–analysis to distribution studies of Recent Foraminifera

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1462-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Vilks ◽  
E. H. Anthony ◽  
W. T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Association Analysis ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Preliminary Test ◽  
Marine Ecology ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Multivariate Method ◽  
East Bay ◽  
Distribution Studies

Counts of species of foraminifera from 75 samples of sediment from East Bay, MacKeazie King Island, in the Canadian Arctic were converted to a matrix of presence–absence data (56 species × 75 stations). These were submitted to both normal and inverse association–analysis as a preliminary test of the application of that multivariate method to problems in marine ecology. The results are compared with observations made at the time the survey was carried out. Although the pattern of sampling was not the most suitable for association–analysis, the results indicate that the method may prove quite informative.

Improvement of association-analysis classification by Braun-Blanquet technique

Bothalia ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Association Analysis ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Nodal Analysis ◽  
Association Analyses ◽  
Table Method ◽  
Group Relationships

Normal association-analysis was carried out on data collected in the Jack Scott Nature Reserve in the Central Bankenveld of the Transvaal. As the method was found inadequate for obtaining optimal definition and arrangement of plant communities, it was supplemented by the Braun-Blanquet Table Method, which served as a substitute for inverse and nodal analyses. This led to a better understanding of the vegetation of the Reserve. Because association-analysis is strictly hierarchical, presentation of inter-group relationships and interpretation of vegetation-habitat relationships are limited. It is argued that the monothetic character of normal and inverse association-analyses is a further limitation and although this is com­pensated for by nodal-analysis, valuable information is discarded as peripheral in the latter process.

Cytopathology of Cardiac Tissue from Daunomycin-Treated Mice

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 550-551
Author(s):  
Robert H. Liss ◽  
Frances A. Cotton
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Tissue ◽  
Cardiac Toxicity ◽  
Drug Distribution ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Intravenous Dose ◽  
Single Intravenous Dose ◽  
Physiologic Saline ◽  
Histopathologic Changes ◽  
Distribution Studies ◽  
Lung And Kidney

Daunomycin, an antibiotic used in the clinical management of acute leukemia, produces a delayed, lethal cardiac toxicity. The lethality is dose and schedule dependent; histopathologic changes induced by the drug have been described in heart, lung, and kidney from hamsters in both single and multiple dose studies. Mice given a single intravenous dose of daunomycin (10 mg/kg) die 6-7 days later. Drug distribution studies indicate that the rodents excrete most of a single dose of the drug as daunomycin and metabolite within 48 hours after dosage (M. A. Asbell, personal communication).Myocardium from the ventricles of 6 moribund BDF1 mice which had received a single intravenous dose of daunomycin (10 mg/kg), and from controls dosed with physiologic saline, was fixed in glutaraldehyde and prepared for electron microscopy.

A Freeze Shadow Technique for the Preparation of Soft Paint Latexes for Electron Microscopy

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Earl R. Walter ◽  
Glen H. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
High Vacuum ◽  
Vacuum System ◽  
Latex Particles ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Diffusion Pump ◽  
Film Forming ◽  
Routine Basis ◽  
Distribution Studies ◽  
Preparation Techniques

With the development of soft, film forming latexes for use in paints and other coatings applications, it became desirable to develop new methods of sample preparation for latex particle size distribution studies with the electron microscope. Conventional latex sample preparation techniques were inadequate due to the pronounced tendency of these new soft latex particles to distort, flatten and fuse on the substrate when they dried. In order to avoid these complications and obtain electron micrographs of undistorted latex particles of soft resins, a freeze-dry, cold shadowing technique was developed. The method has now been used in our laboratory on a routine basis for several years.The cold shadowing is done in a specially constructed vacuum system, having a conventional mechanical fore pump and oil diffusion pump supplying vacuum. The system incorporates bellows type high vacuum valves to permit a prepump cycle and opening of the shadowing chamber without shutting down the oil diffusion pump. A baffeled sorption trap isolates the shadowing chamber from the pumps.

Hostility and Perceptions of Support in Ambiguous Social Interactions

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Vranceanu ◽  
Linda C. Gallo ◽  
Laura M. Bogart
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Processing Bias ◽  
Information Processing Bias

The present study investigated whether a social information processing bias contributes to the inverse association between trait hostility and perceived social support. A sample of 104 undergraduates (50 men) completed a measure of hostility and rated videotaped interactions in which a speaker disclosed a problem while a listener reacted ambiguously. Results showed that hostile persons rated listeners as less friendly and socially supportive across six conversations, although the nature of the hostility effect varied by sex, target rated, and manner in which support was assessed. Hostility and target interactively impacted ratings of support and affiliation only for men. At least in part, a social information processing bias could contribute to hostile persons' perceptions of their social networks.

Effects of Preloading of Stannous Compounds on the Distribution of 99mTc-Pertechnetate

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 26-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Greenberg ◽  
P. Som ◽  
G. E. Meinken ◽  
D. F. Sacker ◽  
H. L. Atkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Cell ◽  
Red Blood Cell ◽  
Plasma Ratio ◽  
99Mtc Pertechnetate ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Stannous Ion ◽  
Distribution Studies

Summary 99mTc-pertechnetate distribution studies were performed in rabbits and mice following pretreatment between 5—336 hours with various routinely used stannous complexes (HSA, MAA, GHT, DTPA, PYPs) containing different amounts of Sn++ (0.17 —15.0 μ mg/kg). Beyond a concentration of 0.26 mg/kg of Sn++ an alteration in 99mTc-pertechnetate distribution was observed. The red blood cell was found to be the most prominent target. An in-vivo reduction of 99mTc-pertechnetate apparently occurred by the presence of stannous ion within the red blood cell. Preloading time period between 5—24 hours did not alter the uptake of RBC/plasma ratio. Beyond that period it decreased slowly and still persisted up to 2 weeks following pretreatment. RBC/ plasma ratio of 99mTcO4 - increased with increased Sn++ content of various commercially available pharmaceutical kits.

99mTc-Sn-Pyrophosphate Complexes, an Investigation of its Possible Structures

1974 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 252-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Rörvik - Schümichen ◽  
G. Hoffmann ◽  
C. Schümichen
Keyword(s):  
In Vivo Distribution ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Distribution Studies

SummaryAt least two different 99mTc-Sn-pyrophosphate complexes are formed, as it is shown by comparative in vivo distribution studies: A 2 : 2 Sn : pyrophosphate complex is predominant at higher concentrations. Only this complex shows bone seeking properties. A 2 : 1 Sn : pyrophosphate complex exists only at low concentrations. This complex shows no deposition in bone but in the kidneys. Which complex is predominant depends on the pyrophosphate concentration in the equilibrium. Both complexes are rapidly excreted by the kidneys.

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