Subjects with obesity and elevated fasting blood glucose are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes which may be reduced by a dietary intervention leading to an improvement of insulin resistance. We investigated the potential of a whole-grain based dietary product (WG) with reduced starch content derived from double-fermented wheat during a hypo-energetic diet to positively influence body w...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have reported on the associations between ambient temperatures and mortality. However, few multi-city studies have been conducted in developing countries including China. This study aimed to examine the association between high temperature and mortality outcomes in four cities with different climatic characteristics in China to identify the most vulnerable population...

Weighted Gamma (WG), a weighted version of Gamma distribution, is introduced. The hazard function is increasing or upside-down bathtub depending upon the values of the parameters. This distribution can be obtained as a hidden upper truncation model. The expressions for the moment generating function and the moments are given. The non-linear equations for finding maximum likelihood estimators (M...

runoff simulation is a vital issue in water resource planning and management. various models with different levels of accuracy and precision are developed for this purpose considering various prediction time scales. in this paper, two models of ihacres (identification of unit hydrographs and component flows from rainfall, evaporation and streamflow data) and ann (artificial neural network) mode...

evaporation is one of the main parameters for the optimum operation of reservoirs, design of irrigation systems and scientific management of water resources. accurate estimation of the water evaporation level is crucial in any region especially in arid and semiarid regions. in this study, the feasibility of simulation of pan evaporation in maraghe station using the multiple regression models we...

Revision history Revision 0 (3 May 2006) First revision Revision 1 (10 June 2006) Incorporated comments from May 2006 CAP WG changed to SET/REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER commands instead of the Device Identification VPD page 83h. Revision 2 (7 September 2006) Incorporated comments from July 2006 CAP WG renamed to SET/REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION to avoid overuse of “identifier”, increased the info...

Respiration has a profound influence on crop yield because dry matter accumulation by a crop is closely related to assimilation of CO and respiratory activity. This paper describes the development of a 2 simulation model for respiration in wheat. While the growth respiration can be assumed to be proportional to the assimilation of CO , the model concentrated on the effects of biotic and environ...

Thermal unfolding of 5S rRNA from wheat germ (WG) and lupin seeds (LS) was studied in solution. Experimental curves of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were resolved into particular components according to the thermodynamic model of two-state transitions. The DSC temperature profiles for WG and LS differ significantly in spite of very high similarities in the sequence of both molecules. ...

introduction: the phenomenon of climate change and its consequences is a familiar topic which is associated with natural disasters such as, flooding, hurricane, drought that cause water crisis and irreparable damages. studying this phenomenon is a serious warning regarding the earth’s weather change for a long period of time. materials and methods: in order to understand and survey the impacts ...