Cocoa flavanol (CF) intake improves endothelial function in patients with cardiovascular risk factors and disease. We investigated the effects of CF on surrogate markers of cardiovascular health in low risk, healthy, middle-aged individuals without history, signs or symptoms of CVD. In a 1-month, open-label, one-armed pilot study, bi-daily ingestion of 450 mg of CF led to a time-dependent incre...

OBJECTIVE To examine in a population with a high prevalence of hypertension, the association between six cardiovascular polymorphisms, arterial stiffness and medication use. METHODS In this cross-sectional study (Hypertension: Interaction and Prevalence of POlymorphisms related to Cardiovascular Risk and the Association to Treatment Efficacy Study project), arterial stiffness was assessed by ...

BACKGROUND In school-aged children with cystic fibrosis (CF) structural lung damage assessed using chest CT is associated with abnormal ventilation distribution. The primary objective of this analysis was to determine the relationships between ventilation distribution outcomes and the presence and extent of structural damage as assessed by chest CT in infants and young children with CF. METHO...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are prevalent in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), yet psychological services are rarely accessible in CF clinics. This cross-sectional single center study reports on a psychological needs assessment of people with CF. METHODS We asked adults attending a CF clinic, without integrated psychological services, to complete a psychological needs assessment survey ...

A mapping f from F2m to itself is almost perfect nonlinear (APN) if its directional derivatives in nonzero directions are all 2-to-1. Let Cf be the binary linear code of length 2 − 1, whose parity check matrix has its j-th column [ π f(π) ] , where π is a primitive element in F2m and j = 0, 1, · · · , 2 − 2. For m ≥ 3 and any quadratic APN function f(x) = ∑m−1 i,j=0 ai,jx 2+2 , ai,j ∈ F2m , it ...

Periglasyal ?ekiller, geçmi? dönem iklim ko?ullar?na ba?l? olarak geli?en ve günümüz ko?ullar? alt?ndada devinim gösteren olu?umlard?r. Bu Dünya’n?n yüksek enlemlerinin yan? s?ra alçak da?l?k alanlar?nda da yay?l?? göstermektedir. Kuzeydo?u Anadolu’da, Küçük Kafkaslar (4090 m) üzerinde yer alan Ilgar Da?? (2918 söz konusu periglasyal ?ekillerin da??l?? gösterdi?i önemli noktalar aras?ndad?r. Ti...

We consider the totally real cyclic quintic fields Kn = Q(θn), generated by a root θn of the polynomial fn(x) = x 5 + nx − (2n + 6n + 10n + 10)x + (n + 5n + 11n + 15n + 5)x + (n + 4n + 10n + 10)x + 1. Assuming that m = n4 + 5n3 + 15n2 + 25n + 25 is square free, we compute explicitly an integral basis and a set of fundamental units of Kn and prove that Kn has a power integral basis only for n = ...

Collaborative filtering (CF) is an important and popular technology for recommender systems. However, current CF methods suffer from such problems as data sparsity, recommendation inaccuracy, and big-error in predictions. In this paper, we borrow ideas of object typicality from cognitive psychology and propose a novel typicality-based collaborative filtering recommendation method named TyCo. A ...

by: a. abarghani, m.sc of research center of agriculture and natural resources, ardabil-iran m. bojarpour, assistant professor, department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, ramin university, ahvaz- iran j. fayazi, assistant professor, department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, ramin university, ahvaz- iran. in order to investigate the effect of barely (ba) replacement with s...