This article discusses the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) as an alternative strategy for proposing solutions to mental health problems according Islamic approach. technique has been applied by researchers provide among students. The findings of summary expert recommendations have identified a total 12 alternatives and methods in solving problems. In addition, study show that NGT helped obtain el...

The incretin effect on insulin secretion was investigated in 8 subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and 8 with normal glucose tolerance (NGT), using 25, 75, and 125 g oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) and isoglycemic intravenous glucose infusions (IIGI). The ß-cell response was evaluated using a model embedding a dose-response (slope=glucose sensitivity), an early response (rate sensitivity), ...

The lexicons of many sign languages hold large proportions of “frozen” forms, viz. signs that are generally considered to have been formed productively (as classifier predicates), but that have diachronically undergone processes of lexicalisation. Nederlandse Gebarentaal (Sign Language of the Netherlands; henceforth: NGT) also has many of these signs (Van der Kooij 2002, Zwitserlood 2003). In c...

objective: vitamin d appears to be involved in regulation of glycemic and inflammatory responses in gestational diabetes. the purpose of this study was to compare the serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25(oh)d), inflammatory biomarkers and glycemic profile between gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) and normal glucose tolerance (ngt) pregnant women. materials and methods: in this cross-sectio...

AIMS This analysis was done to compare the risk of development of diabetes among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and early glucose intolerance (EGI; intermediary post glucose level > or = 160 mg/dl) when compared with normal (NGT). Profile of insulin secretion and insulin resistance was compared in a subgroup of subjects with EGI, IGT and diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS A progra...

d-disjunct matrices constitute a basis for nonadaptive group testing (NGT) algorithms and binary d-superimposed codes. The rows of a d-disjunct matrix represent the tests in a NGT algorithm which identifies up to d defects in a population. The columns of a d-disjunct matrix represent binary d-superimposable codewords. A d-disjunct matrix p is called #-disjunct if given any d + 1 columns of p wi...

Several animal studies have shown a protective effect of helminth infections against type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). However, epidemiologic studies demonstrating this protective relationship with T1DM are largely lacking, although an inverse correlation between the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and prevalence of allergies and autoimmunity has been shown. A cross-sectional study was u...

OBJECTIVE To study the association of serum fetuin-A as a potential risk factor with abnormal albuminuria in Chinese individuals with normal glucose tolerance (NGT). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The cross-sectional analysis included 607 men and 1,042 women aged 40 or older with NGT. RESULTS Women with combined microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria (n=68) had significantly higher serum fetuin...