A study of the marriage role expectations of junior college students

It is the purpose of this study to explore the nature of the marriage role expectations of students who are enrolled in a junior college course in marriage and the family. By means of a questionnaire, students were assigned ranks on a scale ranging from traditional to equalitarian views of marriage roles. Sub-scale scores were obtained in the areas of authority, homemaking, care of children, personal characteristics, social participation, education, and employment and support. By means of Pearson product-moment correlations it was determined whether the above scores were independent of sex, social status, dominance, self-acceptance, socialization and flexibility

Some are more equal than others : the role of ‘keystone’ species in the degradation of recalcitrant substrates

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Impact of protein on the composition and metabolism of the human gut microbiota and health

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Pat Bain for help in preparing figure 1. Financial support: The Rowett Institute is funded by Scottish Government Rural ad Environmental Sciences and Analytical Services (SG-RESAS).Peer reviewedPostprin

Why does increased microbial fermentation in the human colon shift toward butyrate?

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Dietary fibre complexity and its influence on functional groups of the human gut microbiota

Open Access via the Cambridge University Press Agreement Acknowledgments We would like to thank Professor Wendy Russell (University of Aberdeen) and Professor Stephen Fry (University of Edinburgh) for useful discussions and Ms Pat Bain (University of Aberdeen) for graphics support. Financial Support PL, SHD and AWW receive funding from the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division. MS is funded by a Rowett Institute RESAS studentship and a University of Aberdeen Elphinstone Scholarship. IM is funded by an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant in partnership with Enterobiotix Ltd and University of Aberdeen (Partnership No. KTP 12019)Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Invasive Plants Are a Valuable Alternate Protein Source and Can Contribute to Meeting Climate Change Targets

This work was funded by the Scottish Government through RESAS as part of its strategic research programme. We would like to thank William Rees and Teresa Grohmann for their time in helping with preparation of the manuscript. Jacqueline Wallace (Rowett Institute) and Robin Walker (SRUC) for providing plant samples. Donna Henderson and Jodie Park for technical assistance in NSP measurements. Susan Anderson for technical assistance in amino acid profiling. Gary Duncan and Lorraine Scobbie for technical assistance in phenolic profiling. Lisa Guerrier, Salomé Leveque (IUT- Clermont-Ferrand, France), who assisted and observed procedures as part of their lab-skill training. We would also like to thank Graham Horgan (BIOSS, Rowett Institute) for advise on the statistical analysis. We would like to thank the NHS for its incredible commitment to keeping us safe during these harsh times.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Survival strategies and metabolic interactions between Ruminococcus gauvreauii and Ruminococcoides bili, isolated from human bile

This work was funded by MINECO (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) under grant number AGL2013-44761-P, supported by FEDER (The European Regional Development Funds). N.M. was the recipient of an FPI Predoctoral Grant (BES-2014-068736) from MINECO. A.M. thanks the support of CSIC (PIE-201970E019 grant). N.M., A.M., and S.D. from the MicroHealth group would like to thank the grant of the “Plan for Research, Development and Innovation of the Principado de Asturias 2018–2020” (ref. IDI/2018/000236) co-financed by FEDER funds. S.H.D. and A.W.W. acknowledge core funding support for the Rowett Institute from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Sciences and Analytical Services (RESAS) as well as the support for E.C. from the Tenovus Charitable trust (Scotland). Donna Henderson from Rowett Institute (University of Aberdeen) is also acknowledged for carrying out the gas chromatography analysis.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

High throughput method development and optimised production of leaf protein concentrates with potential to support the agri-industry

Open access via Springer agreement Acknowledgements We would like to thank Phyllis Nicol and Fergus Nicol for their support with protein estimation assays and Teresa Grohmann for helping with manuscript preparation. Funding This work was funded by the Scottish Government via RESAS as part of its strategic research programme.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The Induction of Colitis and Ileitis in Mice Is Associated with Marked Increases in Intestinal Concentrations of Stimulants of TLRs 2, 4, and 5

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Multi-exon COL5A1 deletion in a child with classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome : A case report expanding the allelic spectrum and showing evidence of parental gonosomal mosaicism

Classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (cEDS) is a rare inherited autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder with core clinical features including skin hyperextensibility, abnormal scarring, and generalized joint hypermobility. Classical EDS is predominantly caused by small pathogenic variants in the genes COL5A1 and COL5A2 and occasionally by a COL1A1 point mutation p.(Arg312Cys), while gross deletions or duplications are uncommon. Gonosomal mosaicism is thought to be exceedingly rare with only two cases reported in the literature. We report a child with cEDS due to a rare gross deletion of exons 2-65 in the COL5A1 gene, inherited from an unaffected mosaic father. The level of mosaicism in the father was approximately 43% in leucocyte cells and 30% in DNA extracted from skin. Our results expand the allelic spectrum of cEDS variants and suggest that parental mosaicism needs to be considered in patients with suspected cEDS, given its implication for genetic counseling.Peer reviewe