ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 18 INCREASES THE PATHOGEN RESISTANCE OF THE IMPORTED WILLOW LEAF BEETLE, PLAGIODERA VERSICOLORA

Odorant binding protein 18 increases the pathogen resistance of the imported willow leaf beetle, Plagiodera versicolora

BackgroundInsect odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are a class of small molecular weight soluble proteins.In the past few years, OBPs had been found to work as carriers of ligands and play a crucial role in olfaction and various other physiological processes, like shibori dot fabric immunity.A subset of insect OBPs had been found to be expressed diff

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Using the Many-Facet Rasch Model to analyse and evaluate the quality of objective structured clinical examination: a non-experimental cross-sectional design

Objectives Sources of bias, such as the examiners, domains and stations, can influence the student marks in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).This study describes the extent to which the facets modelled in an OSCE redken chromatics 6nn can contribute to scoring variance and how they fit into a Many-Facet Rasch Model (MFRM) of OSCE pe

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