BackgroundThe aim of this study was to evaluate the lipid abnormalities associated with different stages of albuminuria and also examine role of ApoB lipoprotein as a predictor of early diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetic patients. Methods and ResultsA total 259 diabetic patients (110 men and 149 women) with mean age group 62.5±11.2 years were studied. Normoalbuminurea (n=110), microalbumin...

The potential use of odd- and branched-chain fatty acids (OBCFA) and purine bases (PB) as microbial markers in the equine hindgut was studied. For this purpose, feed particles adherent bacteria [solid associated bacteria (SAB)] and planktonic bacteria [liquid associated bacteria (PAB)] were isolated from total cecum and colon contents of 8 healthy, crossbred horses (9 ± 3 yr). Horses were faste...

A high performance computer includes a fast processor and millions bytes of memory. During the data processing, huge amount of information are shuffled between the memory and processor. Because of its small size and its effectiveness speed, cache has become a common feature of high performance computers. Enhancing cache performance proved to be essential in the speed up of cache-based computers...

Let A be a quotient of J0(N) associated to a newform f such that the special L-value of A (at s = 1) is non-zero. We give a formula for the ratio of the special L-value to the real period of A that expresses this ratio as a rational number. We extract an integer factor from the numerator of this formula; this factor is non-trivial in general and is related to certain congruences of f with eigen...

SCOPE The SCFA acetate (Ac) and propionate (Pr) are major fermentation products of dietary fibers and provide additional energy to the host. We investigated short- and long-term effects of dietary Ac and Pr supplementation on diet-induced obesity and hepatic lipid metabolism. METHODS AND RESULTS C3H/HeOuJ mice received high-fat (HF) diets supplemented with 5% SCFA in different Ac:Pr ratios, a...

We present several new eecient architectures to solve the hidden surface problem in the feature domain. All the architectures operate on segments (instead of pix-els) and create a list of visible segments for each scan line. We present two new semi-systolic architectures consisting of an array of M processors, where M is the maximum number of overlapping segments. Both ar-chitectures require pr...