Abstract Background The aims of this study were to evaluate the construct validity (known group), concurrent validity (criterion based) and test-retest (intra-rater) reliability of manual goniometers to measure passive hip range of motion (ROM) in femoroacetabular impingement patients and healthy controls.Methods Passive hip flexion, abduction, add
Nitroguaiacols are typical constituents of biomass-burning emissions, including absorbing aerosols which contribute to climate change.Although they are also harmful to humans and plants, their atmospheric fate and lifetimes are still very speculative.Therefore, in this work, the photolysis kinetics of aqueous-phase 4-nitroguaiacol (4NG) and 5-nitro
Sexual selection involving female choice or female preference (‘inter-sexual’ selection) and/or male–male competition (‘intra-sexual’ selection) is one of the key mechanisms for evolutionary diversification and speciation.In particular, sexual selection is recently suggested to be an important mode to drive the evolution of the “novelâ€
One of the main outcomes of quantitative genetics approaches to natural variation is to reveal the genetic architecture underlying the phenotypic space.Complex genetic architectures are described as including numerous loci (or alleles) with small-effect and/or low-frequency in the populations, interactions with the genetic background, environment o