OBJECTIVE Increased basal cortisol levels have been found in bulimia nervosa. After stress, increased cortisol levels have been associated with increased food intake in healthy women. Therefore, we assessed cortisol, hunger, and desire to binge eat after a cold pressor test (CPT) among women with binge eating disorder (BED). METHODS Twenty-two obese (body mass index [BMI] = 36.7 +/- 6.5 SD) f...

I T IS KNOWN that donor-specific transfusion (DST) enhances graft survival in clinical transplantation. However, efforts using xenogeneic DST to improve xenograft survival have resulted in hyperacute rejection (HAR) even in the presence of conventional immunosuppression. 1 In this study. we tested the effect of DST combined with FK 506 on survival of hamster-to-rat liver xenografts. L VG hamste...

According to the diagnostic criteria for adrenal preclinical Cushing's syndrome (PreCS) established by a group headed by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), low- and high-dose dexamethasone suppression tests (DSTs) must be performed to prove autonomous cortisol secretion, i.e., > or =3 microg/dL serum cortisol following 1-mg DST administration, and > or =1 microg/dL serum cortisol...

In this paper, novel recursive algorithms for realization of one-dimensional discrete sine transform (DST) and inverse discrete sine transform (IDST) of any length are proposed. By using some mathematical techniques, recursive expressions for DST and IDST have been developed. Then, the DST and IDST are implemented by recursive filter structures. A linear systolic architecture for realization of...

The escalation hypothesis posits that predation by increasingly powerful and metabolically active carnivores has been a major driver of metazoan evolution. We test a key tenet of this hypothesis by analyzing predatory drill holes in fossil marine shells, which provide a ~500-million-year record of individual predator-prey interactions. We show that drill-hole size is a robust predictor of body ...

Scarab is a prospecting rover for lunar missions to survey resources, particularly water ice, in polar craters. It is designed for the deployment of a deep coring drill and for transport of soil analysis instruments. Its chassis can transform to stabilize the drill in contact with the ground and can also adjust to ascend and descent steep slopes of unconsolidated soil. Additional features inclu...

It is known that the correction of the Kyoto Dst index for the secular variation of the Earth's internal field produces a discontinuity in the Kyoto Dst index at the end of each year. We show that this secular correction also introduces a significant baseline error to the Kyoto Dst index that leads to an underestimate of the solar cycle variation of geomagnetic activity and of the strength of t...

Results obtained by competitive protein binding assay (PBA) and a solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) for cortisol were compared in 157 samples from 100 psychiatric patients given a dexamethasone suppression test (DST). Cortisol levels in plasma samples obtained at 8:00 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. the day following 1.0 mg dexamethasone orally at bedtime ranged from 0 to 30 micrograms/dl and correlated clo...

<span>When compressing a video, the architecture is provided with width and height of frame along video as input. The multiple transform selection (MTS) techniques are used to compress video. Traditional discrete cosine transforms (DCT) other trigonometric (sine cosine) transforms, such DCT-8 DST-7, included in pool transforms. For best outcomes, two additional transforms-DST-2 DCT-5-were...