The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the presence of a malignant tumor influences energy metabolism of the host. Resting energy expenditure (REE) was measured in 104 gastric and colorectal (GCR) cancer patients and in 47 non-small cell lung cancer patients and was compared with REE values in 40 healthy controls. REE expressed per kilogram of fat-free mass (FFM) in lung cancer pa...

We consider dimensional reduction of the lightlike holography of the covariant entropy bound from D + 1 dimensional geometry of M × S1 to the D dimensional geometry M . With a warping factor, the local Bekenstein bound in D+ 1 dimensions leads to a more refined form of the bound from the D dimensional view point. With this new local Bekenstein bound, it is quite possible to saturate the lightli...

Massless elementary-particle propagation is represented historically (cosmologically) through 3-scale “towers of quartet rings” within a lattice of magneto-electrodynamically communicating “pre-events”. The lightlike intervals within a ring of 4 pre-events (discrete “closed string”) display transverse GUT-scale and longitudinal “particle scale”. The lightlike (longitudinal) spacing between succ...

In this paper, firstly, in $E_1^3$, we defined normal Fermi-Walker derivative and applied for the adapted frame. Normal Fermi-Walker parallelism, normal non-rotating frame, and Darboux vector expressions of normal Fermi-Walker derivative by normal Fermi-Walker derivative are given for adapted frame. Being conditions of normal Fermi-Walker derivative and normal non-rotating frame are examined fo...

Planetary boundaries (PBs) and global catastrophic risk (GCR) have emerged in recent years as important paradigms for understanding and addressing global threats to humanity and the environment. This article compares the PBs and GCR paradigms and integrates them into a unified PBs-GCR conceptual framework, which we call Boundary Risk for Humanity and Nature (BRIHN). PBs emphasizes global enviro...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) stimulate oxytocin secretion from bovine granulosa and luteal cells. Since oxytocin on the one hand is released from ovarian cells by cortisol and on the other hand PCBs can be bound by glucocorticoid receptors (GCr), we have tested the hypothesis that PCBs acting via GCr can stimulate oxytocin secretion. In preliminary studies the effect of RU486 (GCr blocker) ...