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The plasticity of T lymphocytes induced by epigenetic modifications of gene promoters may play a pivotal role in controlling their effector functions, which are sometimes causally associated with immune disorders. IL ‐17‐producing T cells, which induce type 17 immune responses, are newly identified pathogenic effector ... |
BACKGROUND |
Certain mother-child feeding patterns (MCFPs) may promote childhood obesity and/or disordered eating. |
OBJECTIVES |
To assess the demographic correlates of MCFPs and to test whether differences in MCFPs are associated with child body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) z scores in a population-based study. |
DESIGN |
A secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth main and child cohorts was conducted on more than 1000 Hispanic, African American, and non-Hispanic/non-African American children, aged 3 to 6 years. The MCFPs were measured by means of 3 interview questions probing mother-allotted child food choice, chi... |
RESULTS |
Mothers of non-Hispanic/non-African American children allotted greater food choice than mothers of African American or Hispanic children. Maternal BMI and other demographic measures were unrelated to MCFPs. The lowest levels of mother-allotted child food choice and child eating compliance were associated with reduced c... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Feeding strategies providing the least child food choice were associated with reduced child BMI. However, MCFPs did not relate to child overweight status.Short Migraine Attacks of less than 2 h Duration in Children and Adolescents |
We studied the duration of migraine attacks among children and adolescents who reported headache attacks lasting <2 h. Among the 720 children who attended our specialist headache clinic, over a period of 6 years, 231 children had migraine with or without aura fulfilling the International Headache Society (IHS) criteria... |
Introduction Transnasal trans-sphenoidal surgery has become the most popular procedure to approach different sellar lesions. Internal carotid artery injury during this approach could be minimized by accurate preoperative assessment of its course and detection of anatomical variations. Patients and methods This study wa... |
Background/Aims: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with reproductive and metabolic abnormalities and carries a number of cardiovascular risk factors. Low-grade chronic inflammation has been thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and PCOS patients have an increased rate of subclinical... |
As a result of Hungary's membership in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), surface nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) balances on a country level are calculated and reported to the OECD annually. The Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (RISSAC) of the Hungarian Aca... |
Standardization of surgical procedures is both feasible and necessary in clinical trials. To the extent that an operation may influence prognosis, identify prognostic factors, or reveal variables upon which additional treatment is contingent, the operation must be defined precisely enough to permit the determinations t... |
The titanium dioxide (TiO2) surface is suitable as a substrate for single-atom catalysts(SACs). As a common defect on TiO2, oxygen vacancies may have a significant impact on the adsorption and activity of the adatoms. This work aims to investigate whether titanium dioxide containing surface oxygen vacancies is more su... |
This paper proposes an adaptive switching method of feedback information for a wireless networked control system (WNCS) with unreliable communication links, which is based on a cross-layered design approach between communication and control layers. In the focused WNCS where communication errors can occur, the uncertain... |
An N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed highly enantioselective [3 + 3] annulation reaction of N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) 3,3-disubstituted acrylates and N-Ts ketimines was developed. In most cases, the desired chiral dihydropyridinone products bearing an all carbon quaternary stereogenic center could be obtained in good ... |
In this work, the nonvolatile memory constructed on the tunnel thin-film transistors (tunnel-TFTs) using polycrystalline-silicon channel featuring ferroelectric HfZrOx layer is demonstrated for the first time. When the pulse voltages of program (PG) and erase (ER) are, respectively, 3.5 and −2 V with the pulsewidth of ... |
In this paper, we present a reconfigurable band pass filter (BPF) design based on a periodic frequency selective surface (FSS) structure. Using varactors, which are included in the unit cell of the FSS, we may change the frequency response of the FSS, as shifting the center frequency and changing the Q factor. Using su... |
AIMS |
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) stress-only protocols reduce radiation exposure and cost but require clinicians to make immediate decisions regarding rest scan cancellation. We developed a machine learning (ML) approach for automatic rest scan cancellation and evalu... |
METHODS AND RESULTS |
In total, 20 414 patients from a solid-state SPECT MPI international multicentre registry with clinical data and follow-up for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were used to train ML for MACE prediction as a continuous probability (ML score), using 10-fold repeated hold-out testing to separate test from training data... |
CONCLUSION |
ML, using clinical and stress imaging data, can be used to automatically recommend cancellation of rest SPECT MPI scans, while ensuring higher prognostic safety than current clinical approaches.Analysing user experience of personal mobile products through contextual factors |
Context plays a critical role in the user experience (UX) of mobile products. In UX studies, context is often seen as a single entity such as mobile context or car context. More fine-grained categorization of contextual factors is needed when we want to understand how context affects user experience. The purpose of our... |
This document describes the theory underlying the CDFTBL code and gives details for using the code. The CDFTBL code provides an automated tool for generating a statistical cumulative distribution function that describes a set of field data. The cumulative distribution function is written in the form of a table of proba... |
We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by 10(13) solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) are stacked at the positions of around 12 000 optically selected CMASS galaxies from the SDSS-III/BOSS survey. Th... |
Hearing loss in patients with X‐linked agammaglobulinemia is often attributed to recurrent infections. However, recent genetic studies suggest a different etiology in some patients. We present three unrelated patients, 6, 9, and 14 years of age, with large deletions of the terminal portion of the Bruton tyrosine kinase... |
sequently statements warranted in such ways are organized into systems. Development of such systems in accord with rational criteria requires the addition of statements which cannot be confirmed through sense perception. Indeed, according to Kitcher, such systems may contain statements which are false if they are inter... |
Drawing on the ‘affective turn’ in the social sciences, this paper demonstrates the value of studying responses to death and loss in illuminating the role of the body and emotions in managing identities in contemporary societies. Looking across cultures at an experience that may threaten identity and continuity of bein... |
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and to identify the risk factors associated with Leptospira spp. infection in technified pig farms in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. To compose sample for the prevalence study, 342 pigs were used (312 sows and 30 boars) proceeding from seven swine farms distributed i... |
Two-pion correlations are studied for pions of like charge in K + p and + p collisions at 250 GeV/c. An enhanced production is observed at small momentum diierence and is attributed to Bose-Einstein interference between identical particles. A systematic study is presented on the innuence of parametrization and referenc... |
The differences in the mineral compositions of cows', ewes' and goats' milks are well known (e.g. Atherton & Newlander, 1977), but have not been considered as a possible basis for identifying the species from which the milk comes. Dairy products contain high levels of some minerals and much lower concentrations of othe... |
Nontracking planar concentrators are a low-cost method of increasing the performance of traditional solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. This paper presents new methodologies for properly modeling this type of system using a bidirectional reflectance function for nonideal surfaces rather than traditional geometric optics. ... |
The water level fluctuation in surge tank causes low- frequency fluctuations of unit's output power and frequency, which adversely affect the response of hydro turbine governing system. Turbine characteristic is one of the most important factors affecting unit's power and frequency during the governing. In this paper, ... |
THE US HEALTH SYSTEM FACES ONGOING CHALLENGES in addressing its shortcomings in access and quality. Against a foreground of uneven and fragmented care lies a bleak background of unrelentingly accelerating costs. Although the problems of quality and costs are long-standing, several organizations have recently asserted t... |
Superconducting hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixers are a competitive alternative to other technologies in the terahertz frequency range because of their ultrawide bandwidth, high conversion gain, and low intrinsic noise level. A process to fabricate stacked YBaCuO / PrBaCuO ultra-thin films (in the 15 to 40 nm range) ... |
The wide application of transfer learning technology can effectively solve the problem of the difference between data collection and actual application equipment of traditional intelligent fault diagnosis methods in the practical application process. However, the difference in subdomain space and the serious imbalance ... |
This paper presents a performance comparison between nature-inspired metaheuristics, namely, Particle Swarm Optimization, Invasive Weed Optimization and Firefly Algorithm. Application to analog circuit sizing is considered. Input parasitic impedance and the current transfert bandwidth of a CMOS second generation curren... |
The low molecular weight bronchial protease inhibitor isolated from purulent bronchial secretions of man was shown to be a potent inhibitor of the elastase from human granulocytes. At a molar ratio of 1:1, the inhibitor prevented elastase digestion of insoluble elastin and soluble elastin, and blocked the hydrolysis of... |
The pathogenicity of highly purified brush border membrane (BBM) antigens in Heymann Nephritis was compared to that of a crude renal tubular Fx1A preparation and was found to be equally pathogenic. Both antigen preparations induced formation of autologous antisera. Double immunodiffusion studies demonstrated a reaction... |
This article reports the results of an investigation on user preferences in subject searching for non-Roman script materials, and analyzes problems users encountered in retrieving non-Roman script using controlled subject headings in English. Key findings indicate that end users were not completely dissatisfied with th... |
An effective attractive Hubbard model is applied to explain the observed non-Korringa relation in doped fullerenes, which leads to a reduced Pauli susceptibility. The results basically agree with the experiments for K3C60, Rb3C60 and RbCs2C60. It implies that the pair correlation on site possibly plays an important rol... |
The sensitivity of the LH surge mechanism to estradiol-positive feedback was examined in immature lambs (19 weeks of age) several weeks before first ovulation (31 weeks of age). To minimize differences in basal estradiol concentrations, lambs were pretreated with a low level of estradiol (2 pg/ml; Silastic capsule) for... |
To deliver patient-specific advice at the time and place of a consultation, to improve clinician performance and compliance by using computer-based decision support, and to integrate such IT solutions with the clinical workflow are important strategies for the implementation of clinical pathways. User acceptance plays ... |
There is a pressing need to update sleep models, education and treatment to better reflect the realities of sleep in a 24/7 connected social world. Progress in this area has been limited to date by available measurement tools, which have largely restricted their focus to recording the frequency or duration of individua... |
INTRODUCTION Trauma is the leading cause of death for individuals under 45 years of age in the Western world and remains the fourth leading cause of death for all ages combined (1,2,3,4). Approximately 0.9 million people worldwide die secondarily to injury (8% of all deaths) (5). It is also a major cause of morbidity i... |
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