Flavanols from chocolate appear to increase nitric oxide bioavailability, protect vascular endothelium, and decrease cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. We sought to test the effect of flavanol-rich dark chocolate (FRDC) on endothelial function, insulin sensitivity, beta-cell function, and blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). After a run-in ...

Although every clinician hopes to diagnose type 2 diabetes in the earliest stages, the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) revealed that 50% of diabetic complications are present upon the diagnosis of diabetes, even with a fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of 6.1 mM/L. This emphasizes the need for diagnosing diabetes in the earliest stages of insulin resistance, before complications su...

The rapid growth in the wireless technology possess the need of high data rate transmission. This can be accomplished by using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). It is a particular case of multicarrier modulation (MCM), where high rate data stream is transmitted over low rate subcarriers. The system uses a number of carriers to transmit data simultaneously. The disadvantage of t...

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...

OBJECTIVE To validate fasting indices of insulin sensitivity and secretion in a diverse pediatric population against gold standard estimates from euglycemic and hyperglycemic clamps. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 31 children (mean BMI 25.1 +/- 4.9 kg/m(2), mean age 8.7 +/- 1.4 years, 15 girls and 16 boys, 12 black and 19 white) underwent euglycemic and hyperglycemic clamps 2-6 weeks ...

The time relationships which characterize the intermedia synchronization in a multimedia stream affect network performance. For this purpose in this paper a new parameter is introduced, here referred to as the Intermedia Synchronization Index (ISI), which measures the intermedia relationships in a multimedia stream. The parameter is defined as the cross-covariance between the monomedia streams ...