Objective and Methods: Obesity and obesity-associated diabetes are serious health concerns in patients with psychiatric disorders. We compared the prevalence’s of general obesity and abdominal obesity in 337 patients with psychiatric disorders and evaluated the risk of both types of obesity for diabetes mellitus in patients with psychiatric disorders. Results: In patients with psychiatric disor...

A general approach is given to extend WENO reconstructions to a class of numerical schemes that use different types of moments (i.e., multi-moments) simultaneously as the computational variables, such as point values and grid cell averages. The key is to re-map the multi-moment values to single moment values (e.g., cell average or point values), which can then be used to invoke known, standard ...

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Midori Tanino and Ved Sud of the FAA for their support and encouragement. Within the Volpe Center, we would like to thank Dick Bair, Rick Oiesen and Ken Howard for reviewing the report and their valuable comments and suggestions that improved its content. We also thank Mary Costello for editing this report. The Enhanced Traffic Management System (...

The northern coastal region of Lambayeque in Peru held a referendum last November to ask 123 627 voters to rank health issues in order of importance. Now the authorities there are incorporating this feedback into a five-year plan. Brazil also used a ‘trickle-up’ approach in 2003–04, to craft a comprehensive health research agenda based on feedback gathered at hundreds of meetings from the grass...

This paper describes the syntactic rules which are applied in the Japanese speech recognition module of a speech-to-speech translation system. Japanese is considered to be a free word/phrase order language. Since syntactic rules are applied as constraints to reduce the search space in speech recognition, applying rules which take into account all possible phrase orders can have almost the same ...

Prof. Carlos G. Duran (Fig 1) passed away on his 85th birthday, June 11th. He and his wife had returned to their family home in Bilbao this spring due to his failing health. Prof. Duran was born in Tetuan, Morocco in 1932 as the son of a Belgian mother and a Spanish father who was a general surgeon. Prof. Duran completed his M.D. at Madrid University in 1956, followed by a residency in General ...

The global structure of 1 + 1 dimensional compact Universe is studied in two-dimensional model of dilaton gravity. First we give a classical solution corresponding to the spacetime in which a closed time-like curve appears, and show the instability of this spacetime due to the existence of matters. We also observe quantum version of such a spacetime having closed timelike curves never reappear ...

As I begin my fourth year as editor-in-chief of Stroke, I look back over what has been accomplished during the past 3 years and forward to what can be done to improve the quality and impact of the journal for all the constituents of the cerebrovascular community. Stroke has led the way among journals in the vascular/neuroscience disciplines in striving to improve the quality and reproducibility...

We present a simple alternative to Mackey’s account of the (infinite) inequivalent quantizations possible on a coset space G/H. Our reformulation is based on the reduction G → G/H and employs a generalized form of Dirac’s approach to the quantization of constrained systems. When applied to the four-sphere S ≃ Spin(5)/Spin(4), the inequivalent quantizations induce relativistic spin and a backgro...

In all aerobic organisms on Earth, molecular oxygen is essential for cellular respiration, and our body consisting of those cells is continuously exposed to “oxidative stress”. In response to oxidative stress, NF-E2-related transcription factor (Nrf2) encoded by the Nrf2 gene is considered to play a pivotal role in cellular defense via transcriptional up-regulation of many downstream genes, inc...