Background Serum high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) concentrations independently predict the development of diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. However, the impact of dietary factors on serum high-sensitive C-reactive protein concentrations in diabetic patients has received limited attention. We aimed to investigate the association between dietary factors and high-s...

Receptive fields of 41 slowly conducting sensory fibers were located using a thermal (warm) search stimulus in an in vitro splanchnic nerve-mesentery preparation. Warm-sensitive receptive fields were punctate and were densest in the region surrounding the prevertebral ganglia, an area with prominent deposits of brown adipose tissue, where the abdominal aorta branches into the major trunks suppl...

In this paper we present an output-sensitive algorithm to maintain the view of a set of c-oriented polyhedra under insertions into or deletions from the set. (A set of polyhedra is c-oriented ifthe number of different orientations of its edges is bounded by some constant c.) Cyclic overlap in the scene is aJlowed and the polyhedra may even intersect. The time needed for an update is 0« k + 1) l...

Transactional updates to groups of keys are common to a wide class of distributed systems, spanning MapReduce-based workloads, distributed key-value stores and conventional distributed object databases. Such updates are typically implemented using nested transactions/ locks. The cost of such updates is critically dependent on the nesting depth, the contention on any one lock, and the coherence ...

A new readily synthesized fluorescent chemosensor, calix[1]pyreno[3]pyrrole, displays excellent affinity with C(70). Anion-induced facile conformational changes and the dynamic nature of the receptor could be an excellent scaffold for sensing electron-deficient guests.

background: the dramatic increase in the incidence of diabetes and its associated complications require a natural and safe solution to control and delay such complications. the present study tested the hypothesis that probiotics may affect biochemical indices of diabetic patients methods: thirty four types 2 diabetic patients aged between 25 to 65 years, and diagnosed with diabetes for less tha...