Objectives: Elderly nursing homes residents are at an increased risk of malnutrition due to a variety of factors. We aimed at investigating the prevalence of malnutrition and its correlation with elderly subjects using Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) questionnaire.  Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on elderly individuals (N=56; female=28) dwelling in the Sedigh Nursing ...

providing wider variety of products often leads to higher complexity in the manufacturing and business system. finding appropriate methods and techniques to manage these difficulties is going to be an attractive topic for researchers in operations management. by adopting a qualitative approach we have investigated the product variety management in the apparel supply chain. the main contribution...

In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken southern Brazil. Venetan varieties display default form past participle constructions with postverbal subjects and fully agreeing preverbal subjects: is true both for homeland language, northern Italy, as well under analysis paper, A crucial difference emerges unacc...

background and objectives: cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in developed countries. in addition to traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, nowadays, accumulating evidence indicates that a variety of infections contribute to pathogenesis of atherosclerosis,  (we investigated whether helicobacter pylori infection is related to prevalence of coronary heart dise...

The objective of the present study was to comparatively analyze the clinical status of the lower limbs in healthy subjects and subjects with back pain. Forty three (43) male and female subjects with average age of 36.91± 3.97 were selected as the statistical sample of the study. This population was recognized intelligently by utilizing the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ). Furthermo...

Speech signals can be considered as being generated by mechanical system with inherently nonlinear dynamics. The purpose of this paper is to describe its complexity using the fractal dimension of a variety of spanish voiced sounds (vowels, nasals) and unvoiced sounds (fricatives) In our research, the fractal dimension was computed over recorder signals from a speech spanish database (AHUMADA), ...

Himalaya 292 (Hordeum vulgare var. Himalaya 292) is a novel hull-less barley variety lacking activity of a key enzyme of starch synthesis giving a grain containing less total starch, more amylose and higher total dietary fibre. Animal trials have shown that Himalaya 292 contains more resistant starch and has greater positive impact on biomarkers of large-bowel health than comparable wholegrain ...

We investigated maximal Prym varieties on finite fields by attaining their upper bounds on the number of rational points. This concept gave us a motivation for defining a generalized definition of maximal curves i.e. maximal morphisms. By MAGMA, we give some non-trivial examples of maximal morphisms that results in non-trivial examples of maximal Prym varieties.

We work over fields of characteristic 0. Let X be a variety of general type defined over a number field K. A well known conjecture of S. Lang [L] states that the set of rational points X(K) is not Zariski dense in X. As noted in [א], this implies that if X is a variety which only dominates a variety of general type then X(K) is still not dense in X. J. Harris proposed a way to quantify this sit...

Paramyotonia congenita was first described by Eulenberg (1886). It is a rare, hereditary disorder of muscle in which severe loss of power is induced by degrees of cooling which are insufficient to affect normal muscle. Myotonia also appears on cooling. However, the paralysis produced by cooling distinguishes paramyotonia from Thomsen's disease. The weakness and myotonia can easily be produced u...