Asian women are known to have a larger amount of abdominal fat (AF) for the same level of BMI compared with Caucasian and African-American women. This study was aimed to determine whether waist circumference (WC) could be useful as an index of AF compared with AF measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) before and after a weight-loss program in Asian women. Thirty-eight healthy, pre-m...

Neuronal oscillations in the gamma frequency range have been reported in many cortical areas, but the role they play in cortical processing remains unclear. We tested a recently proposed hypothesis that the intensity of sensory input is coded in the timing of action potentials relative to the phase of gamma oscillations, thus converting amplitude information to a temporal code. We recorded spik...

This study evaluated the sensitivity of maximum likelihood (ML)-, generalized least squares (GLS)-, and asymptotic distribution-free (ADF)-based fit indices to model misspecification, under conditions that varied sample size and distribution. The effect of violating assumptions of asymptotic robustness theory also was examined. Standardized root-mean-square residual (SRMR) was the most sensitiv...

Abstract A negative correlation was found to exist between the low-energy spectral index and redshift of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by Amati et al. (2002). It later confirmed Geng & Huang (2013) Gruber (2014), but also be quite dispersive when sample size significantly expanded. In this study, we have established two even larger samples further examine correlation. One our is consisted 316 GRB...

Using the first three and a half years of observations from the Energetic Gamma Ray Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), phase-resolved analyses are performed on the emission from the three brightest highenergy γ-ray pulsars, Crab, Geminga, and Vela. For each pulsar, it is found that there is detectable high-energy γ-ray emission above the galactic diffuse backgr...

This paper develops a method for appraising health status in elderly people. A frailty index was defined as the proportion of accumulated deficits (symptoms, signs, functional impairments, and laboratory abnormalities). It serves as an individual state variable, reflecting severity of illness and proximity to death. In a representative database of elderly Canadians we found that deficits accumu...

We presented a study of outburst activity in the BL Lacertae source OJ~287, observed extensively with X-ray telescope (XRT) onboard Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. demonstrated that results our analysis flaring using Swift/XRT data allow to refine key characteristics OJ~287 secondary (its nature and mass). discovered energy spectra all spectral states can be fitted XSPEC Bulk Motion Comptonizat...

The acceleration of the solar coronal plasma to supersonic speeds is one most fundamental yet unresolved problem in heliophysics. Despite success Parker's pioneering theory on an isothermal corona, realistic wind observed be non-isothermal, and decay its temperature with radial distance usually can fitted a polytropic model. In this work, we use Parker Solar Probe data from first nine encounter...