The responses of human subjects to a low pantothenic acid test diet and to the same diet supplemented with 10 mg pantothenic acid daily for 63 days were observed. Pantothenic acid in urine and blood and also nitrogen balance were used as criteria for nutritional evaluation. The mean daily urinary pantothenic acid excretion decreased from 3.05 to 0.79 mg in male adult subjects fed a pantothenic ...

Results Radiological signs of GO were present in 78/85 patients (92%). Active phase was diagnosed in 20/85 subjects, among them in 16/20 on the basis of clinical evaluation and in 15/20 by MRI. Concordant diagnosis was made in 11 cases, whereas in the remaining 9 subjects active phase of GO was recognized by clinical (5 pts) or radiological (4 pts) features only. 7 patients with no changes in M...

In this paper, we propose an innovative automatic evaluation process for any sport motions. Based on a 2-level Dynamic Time Warping, the process allows the evaluation of both spatial and temporal errors of a novice motion based on an experts’ motion database and without any prior knowledge on the sport. This new methodology is evaluated with regards to coaches’ assessment on two different kinds...

Abstract. Simplicial complexes represent useful and accurate models of complex networks and complex systems in general. We explore the properties of spectra of combinatorial Laplacian operator of simplicial complexes and show its relationship with connectivity properties of the Q-vector and with connectivities of cliques in the simplicial clique complex. We demonstrate the need for higher order...

introduction: stereotypy is one of the main features of children with autism. these behaviors are associated with deficit in learning processes, social skills acquisition, increased family stress, and self-injuries behaviors. the purpose of the present study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two selected karate-hand techniques on hand stereotypic movements in a boy with autism. mate...

Karate is a widely practiced combat sport. Karatekas’ body composition has typically been obtained in small groups using skinfolds or bioelectric impedance. In this work, we assessed three-compartment the accurate dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry technique (QDR Horizon, Hologic) large sample (n = 58; 74% males) of black belt karatekas. Stature-adjusted indices (fat mass index; fat-free bone min...

The present study was planned to investigate the efficiency of explicit teaching and adequacy of the L2 learners' exposure to L2 input in academic contexts in Iran. The case at hand was the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, as three different types of obligatory subjects in English. 96 Iranian EFL learners were selected from two universities in Isfahan. They were...

We propose a method of community detection that is computationally inexpensive and possesses physical significance to a member of a social network. This method is unlike many divisive and agglomerative techniques and is local in the sense that a community can be detected within a network without requiring knowledge of the entire network. A global application of this method is also introduced. S...