Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) are widely used in diets for patients with obesity. To develop a delivery system for suppressing dietary fat accumulation into adipose tissue, MCFA were encapsulated in nanoliposomes (NL), which can overcome the drawbacks of MCFA and keep their properties unchanged. In the present study, crude liposomes were first produced by the thin-layer dispersion method, and...

In this paper, natural language (nl) dialogue is suggested as interaction technique for personalized EPGs to handle a variety of well-known problems. nl interaction addresses the new-user cold-start problem since the necessary user model can be gathered gracefully, without the high initial user effort prominent in traditional recommendation systems. It is argued that nl interaction enhances the...

Nucleus laminaris (NL) neurons encode interaural time difference (ITD), the cue used to localize low-frequency sounds. A physiologically based model of NL input suggests that ITD information is contained in narrow frequency bands around harmonics of the sound frequency. This suggested a theory, which predicts that, for each tone frequency, there is an optimal time course for synaptic inputs to ...

The Use Case formalism is an effective way of capturing both Business Process and Functional System Requirements in a very simple and easy-to-learn way. Use Cases may be modeled in a graphical way (e.g. using the UML notation), mainly serving as a table of content for Use Cases. System behavior can more effectively be specified by structured Natural Language (NL) sentences. The use of NL as a w...

Only two classes of antiviral drugs, neuraminidase inhibitors and adamantanes, are approved for prophylaxis and therapy against influenza virus infections. A major concern is that influenza virus becomes resistant to these antiviral drugs and spreads in the human population. The 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenza virus is naturally resistant to adamantanes. Recently a novel neuraminidase I223R muta...

In 1996 Zhou and Hansen proposed a first-order interval logic called Neighbourhood Logic (NL) for specifying liveness and fairness of computing systems and also defining notions of real analysis in terms of expanding modalities. After that, Roy and Zhou presented a sound and relatively complete Duration Calculus as an extension of NL. We present an embedding of NL into an idempotent semiring of...

PURPOSE To analyze the independent effect of metabolic syndrome (MS) on nephrolithiasis (NL) despite differences in gender compared with the known lithogenic factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 1995 to 2009, 40,687 Koreans were enrolled in the study and observed for the development of NL at a health promotion center. The examination included anthropometric and biochemical measurements as well...

The genetic diversity of Taenioides cirratus was investigated on the basis mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and b (Cytb) gene sequences. A total 159 specimens collected from Chaohu Lake (CL), Nansihu (NL), Taihu (TL), Pearl River (PR), Nandu (NR) were sequenced. length sequence 2485 bp with 412 polymorphic sites. 73 haplotypes identified, Hap1 being most widely distributed. PR...

Tree crops contribute to global agriculture production, but they are usually cultivated in soils with low nutrient availability. Cover (CCs) have been reported as a sustainable management strategy improve soil availability for vegetable systems, less is known about their influence on cycling, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and the microbiome tree crops. We examined effect of replacing traditio...

Natural-language-facilitated human-robot cooperation (NLC), in which natural language (NL) is used to share knowledge between a human and a robot for conducting intuitive human-robot cooperation (HRC), is continuously developing in the recent decade. Currently, NLC is used in several robotic domains such as manufacturing, daily assistance and health caregiving. It is necessary to summarize curr...