The present study was initiated to derive an indirect method for estimating body fat mass (BFM) and to evaluate the correlation between indirect anthropometric techniques for this estimation and to examine the relation of these parameters and of IQ to age of menarche. A total of 578 adolescent girls of ten junior high schools in five educational districts of Mashhad, participated in a cros...

BACKGROUNDS Although height (H) has been considered the principal anthropometric variable governing lung function, the age-dependent differences in its influences on determining spirometric parameters (SPs) have not been conclusively investigated. Moreover, there has been no study centered on age-dependent effects of other anthropometric variables, including body weight (BW) and body fat mass (...

atrics. It has a 2-phase induction. The first phase includes 4 drugs (daunorubicin, prednisone, vincristine and asparaginase), and the second phase contains cyclophosphamide, cytarabine and 6-mercaptopurine. The drugs in the postremission cycles vary within each regimen and between regimens but include asparaginase and a late cycle of delayed reinduction (a truncated modified induction). Hoelze...

In this paper, we study factorizations in the additive monoids of positive algebraic valuations N0[α] semiring polynomials N0[X] using a methodology introduced by D. Anderson, F. and M. Zafrullah 1990. A cancellative commutative monoid is atomic if every non-invertible element factors into irreducibles. We begin determining when atomic, give an explicit description its set An finite factorizati...

OBJECTIVE Existing evidence suggests that family interventions can be effective in reducing relapse rates in schizophrenia and related conditions. Despite this, such interventions are not routinely delivered in Australian mental health services. The objective of the current study is to investigate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of introducing three types of family interventio...

Long-term supplementation with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) reduces body fat mass (BFM) and increases or maintains lean body mass (LBM). However, the regional effect of CLA was not studied. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of CLA per region and safety in healthy, overweight and obese adults. A total of 118 subjects (BMI: 28-32 kg/m2) were included in a double blind, placebo-controlled t...

Background: Normal growth of oocytes, embryos and also successful implantation depend on environmental factors such as the secretion of cumulus cells and composition of follicular and tubular fluids. Therefore, addition of serum, conditioned medium (CM) to the culture medium and also co-culture with somatic cells improve mammalian embryo development. So, in the respect to the secretion of diffe...

The objective of this work is the detection of object classes, such as airplanes or horses. Instead of using a model based on salient image fragments, we show that object class detection is also possible using only the object’s boundary. To this end, we develop a novel learning technique to extract class-discriminative boundary fragments. In addition to their shape, these “codebook” entries als...

Biological force microscopy (BFM) was combined with two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry to search for evidence of putative mineral-specific outer membrane proteins (OM) synthesized by Shewanella oneidensis for Fe-oxide binding and/or anaerobic Fe(III) reduction. BFM shows that S. oneidensis possess an affinity towards goethite (FeOOH) but not diaspore (AlOOH) under anaerob...

OBJECTIVE Body fat mass (BFM) is more homogeneous and accurate than body total mass in measuring obesity but has rarely been studied. Aiming to uncover the genetic basis of fat-induced obesity, a genome-wide association meta-analysis of BFM, after adjustment by body lean mass, was performed in the European population. METHODS Three samples of European ancestry were included in the meta-analys...