It is well known that the complexity of testing the correctness of an arbitrary update to a database view can be far greater than the complexity of testing a corresponding update to the main schema. However, views are generally managed according to some protocol which limits the admissible updates to a subset of all possible changes. The question thus arises as to whether there is a more tracta...

People modify their voice to accommodate the communicative needs of their audience. Previously, speech recipient groups with communicative needs such as foreigners and infants have been investigated, however, there is a lack of research into speech directed to hearing-impaired people. The aim of our study was to investigate prosodic modifications in speech directed to hearing-impaired people an...

Berries have shown several cardiovascular health benefits and have been associated with antioxidant functions in experimental models. Clinical studies are limited. We examined the antioxidant effects of freeze-dried strawberries (FDS) in adults [n = 60; age: 49 ± 10 years; BMI: 36 ± 5 kg/m(2) (mean ± SD)] with abdominal adiposity and elevated serum lipids. Participants were randomized to one of...

Quenched chiral perturbation is used to study the decay constants for heavy-light mesons beyond the leading order in 1/M . The results are used to estimate the error in quenched lattice calculations of the decay constants. For the double ratio R1 = (fDs/fD)/(fBs/fB) we find that the error is small — conservatively 5%, but likely smaller. We also find that quenching decreases the ratio fDs/fD re...

INTRODUCTION Ethnic variations in the prevalence of absence of the palmaris longus (PL) are well known. Many techniques for clinically determining the presence of the PL have been described. Studies have also attempted to correlate its absence with other anatomical anomalies. However, most studies have been done in Caucasian populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The presence of the PL was clinic...

The aim was to investigate differences of the kinetics of the crimp and the slope grip used in rock climbing. Nine cadaver fingers were prepared and fixated with the proximal phalanx in a frame. The superficial (FDS) and deep (FDP) flexor tendons were loaded selectively and together with 40 N in the crimp grip (PIP joint flexed 90°/DIP joint hyperextended) and the slope grip position (<25° flex...

Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation (SV) is a powerful first-principle technique for the study of protein interactions, and allows a rigorous characterization of binding stoichiometry and affinities. A recently introduced commercial fluorescence optical detection system (FDS) permits analysis of high-affinity interactions by SV. However, for most proteins the attachment of an ...

Functional dependencies (FDs) have recently been extended for data quality purposes with various notions of similarity instead of strict equality. We study these extensions in this paper. We begin by constructing a hierarchy of dependencies, showing which dependencies generalize others. We then focus on an extension of FDs that we call Antecedent Metric Functional Dependencies (AMFDs). An AMFD ...

Until now, there have been no published researches evaluating referrals from family doctors (FDs) or utilizations of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR) in Croatia. The main study aim was of determining the referral trend and the trends in the number of PMR consultations. The data were collected from the Croatian Health Statistics Yearbook, 1995-2012. The results of this study pointed ou...