Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease, which affects many organs as it impairs chloride channel. This study was performed to evaluate growth status and its relationship with some laboratory indices such as Cholesterol (chol), Triglyceride (TG), albumin and total protein in children with CF referred to pediatrics center. This study was designed as a cross-sectional study in one ...

BACKGROUND Previous Italian paediatric blood pressure (BP) tables overestimated the prevalence of hypertension in adolescents of specific geographic areas, such as Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. This is probably due to a not very homogeneous distribution of the subjects studied, most from Middle and Northern Italy, and the long period from the survey. METHODS BPs were repeatedl...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The purpose of this study was to establish for the first time reference curves for body fat levels in a Greek pediatric population aged 7-15y. METHODS Six hundred and seven (607) children randomly selected from 8 primary and secondary schools from Northern Greece. Percentage body fat was measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis and percentile curves were constructed usi...

Assessment of inspiratory muscle function (IMF) is limited in children with neuromuscular disorders, because respiratory muscle tests are poorly standardized and valid normative data are unavailable. We investigated maximum inspiratory pressure after exhalation to residual volume (MIP), mouth occlusion pressure (P0.1) and time of inspiration during quiet breathing and derived inspiratory muscle...

PURPOSE Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is prevalent in children and diagnostic polysomnography is costly and not readily available in all areas. We developed a pediatric modification of a commonly used adult clinical prediction tool for stratifying the risk of OSA and the need for polysomnography. METHODS A total of 312 children (age 9-17 years) from phase 2 of the Tucson Children's Assessment...

Abnormal passenger behavior in rail transit has become a top priority, as it affects operational safety. Passenger travel time is the main basis for identifying abnormal while considering flexibility of time. Currently, method to use absolute threshold discrimination based on distribution However, there problem missing due large difference between Origin-Destinations (ODs). Therefore, this pape...

let $mathcal{a}$ be a banach algebra and $mathcal{m}$ be a banach $mathcal{a}$-bimodule. we say that a linear mapping $delta:mathcal{a} rightarrow mathcal{m}$ is a generalized $sigma$-derivation whenever there exists a $sigma$-derivation $d:mathcal{a} rightarrow mathcal{m}$ such that $delta(ab) = delta(a)sigma(b) + sigma(a)d(b)$, for all $a,b in mathcal{a}$. giving some facts concerning general...

Global convergence results are derived for well-known conjugate gradient methods in which the line search step is replaced by a step whose length is determined by a formula. The results include the following cases: 1. The Fletcher-Reeves method, the Hestenes-Stiefel method, and the Dai-Yuan method applied to a strongly convex LC objective function; 2. The Polak-Ribière method and the Conjugate ...