Purpose. To examine behavioral factors related to successful weight maintenance. Methods. Subjects were 90 middle-aged participants who attended a weight loss program and were followed for one year. The subjects were classified into either successful weight maintainers (maintained a weight loss of 5% or more from their initial weight for one year) (SWM) or unsuccessful weight maintainers (USWM)...

Signaling by Hedgehog (Hh) proteins shapes most tissues and organs in both vertebrates and invertebrates, and its misregulation has been implicated in many human diseases. Although components of the signaling pathway have been identified, key aspects of the signaling mechanism and downstream targets remain to be elucidated. We performed an enhancer/suppressor screen in Drosophila to identify no...

Dopamine (DA) losses are associated with various aging-related cognitive deficits. Typically, higher moment-to-moment brain signal variability in large-scale patterns of voxels in neocortical regions is linked to better cognitive performance and younger adult age, yet the physiological mechanisms regulating brain signal variability are unknown. We explored the relationship among adult age, DA a...

PURPOSE To examine several cognitive and perceptual abilities--including working memory (WM), information processing speed (PS), perceptual closure, and perceptual disembedding skill--as factors contributing to individual differences in lipreading performance and to examine how patterns in predictor variables change across age groups. METHOD Forty-three younger adults (mean age = 20.8 years, ...

Navigating the social world requires the ability to maintain and manipulate information about people's beliefs, traits, and mental states. We characterize this capacity as social working memory (SWM). To date, very little research has explored this phenomenon, in part because of the assumption that general working memory systems would support working memory for social information. Various lines...

The antitumor effect of lentinan in syngeneic and autochthonous tumor-host systems and its suppressive effect on 3-methylcholanthrene (MC)-induced carcinogenesis were confirmed using DBA/2 and SWM/Ms hosts. The regressive activity of lentinan against the solid form of Sarcoma 180 was the most effective in DBA/2, SWM/Ms, or A/J mice and less effective in C3H/He or C57BL/6 mice. The growth of a s...

Studies indicate Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) on industrial land can provide substantial adaptive flood mitigation within urban catchments under climate change. To identify a cost-effective GSI network, planners need to evaluate capabilities of properties through time and understand key characteristics informing when, where, how should be implemented for maximum effect. We applied the ...

Abstract The reduction of water resources due to climate change and the increasing demand associated with population growth is a renewed concern. Water distribution monitoring smart metering are essential tools improve efficiency. This paper reports on study, design, implementation meter (SWM) prototype, designed for mechanical meters that need undergo retrofitting process enable automatic read...

Abstract Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) laboratory is the major source of scheduled waste (SW) production which impacts human health and environment if it not well-managed. Therefore, management SW involves serious cooperation from all generators (SWG), students to both academic non-academic staff in an educational institution. The purpose research understand current status SWG’s kn...

Strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) beams with Self-compacting (SCC) jacketing galvanized welded steel wire mesh (SWM) has been an important area study so far. Increasing the mechanical characteristics and structures to maintain required service life load capacity any structure is exciting area. In this research, a Finite Element (FE) investigation conducted on series that were previously...