OBJECTIVES Various cross-sectional studies have revealed a significant positive relationship between systemic oxidative stress and obesity-related indices such as body mass index (BMI, kg/m²). However, little is known of the role of oxidative stress during adolescence. The aim of this study was to determine the association between obesity and serum reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM) in adolescen...

This paper presents a new Bayesian approach to the problem of finding correspondences of moving objects in a multiple calibrated camera environment. Moving objects are detected and segmented in multiple cameras using a background learning technique. A Point Based Feature (PBF) of each foreground region is extracted, in our case, the top. This features will be the support to establish the corres...

paying attention to finance and financial marketing tools could significantly contribute to resolution of financial problems of the firms and avoid their bankruptcy. following the review of previous works in the field of marketing and its application in financing, as well as conducting semi-structured interviews, firstly marketing elements for financing were identified and then marketing strate...

Acute partial compression of the fetal ductus arteriosus (DA) results in an initial increase in pulmonary blood flow (PBF) that is followed by acute vasoconstriction. The objective of the present study was to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO)-endothelin-1 (ET-1) interactions in the acute changes in pulmonary vascular tone after in utero partial constriction of the DA. Twelve late-gestatio...

OBJECTIVE The worldwide prevalence of obesity mandates a widely accessible tool to categorize adiposity that can best predict associated health risks. The body adiposity index (BAI) was designed as a single equation to predict body adiposity in pooled analysis of both genders. We compared body adiposity index (BAI), body mass index (BMI), and other anthropometric measures, including percent bod...

BACKGROUND Obesity has long been highlighted for its association with increased incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nonetheless, the best adiposity indices to evaluate the CVD risk factors remain contentious and few studies have been performed in Asian populations. In the present study, we compared the association strength of percent body fat (PBF) to indirect anthropometric measures of ...

Oxygen availability is regarded as a critical factor to metabolically regulate systemic blood flow. There is a debate as to how peripheral blood flow (PBF) is affected and modulated during hypoxia and hyperoxia; however in vivo evaluating of functional PBF under oxygen-related physiological perturbation remains challenging. Microscopic observation, the current frequently used imaging modality f...

The pulmonary diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide was measured by single breath (DcoSB) and steady state (DcoSS) techniques in 48 patients with various pulmonary circulatory disorders and the results compared with the type of hemodynamic abnormality. Patients with pure inflow obstruction (primary pulmonary hypertension, recurrent pulmonary emboli) had the lowest Dco (mean DcoSB = 14.3 ml/min...

ECG-triggered computed tomography (CT) was used during passage of iodinated contrast to determine regional pulmonary blood flow (PBF) in anesthetized prone/supine dogs. PBF was evaluated as a function of height within the lung (supine and prone) as a function of various normalization methods: raw unit volume data (PBFraw) or PBF normalized to regional fraction air (PBFair), fractional non-air (...

In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, several genes including cdc15+, spo12+, fin1+, slp1+, ace2+ and plo1+ are periodically expressed during M phase. The products of these genes control various aspects of cell cycle progression including sister chromatid separation, septation and cytokinesis. We demonstrate that periodic expression of these genes is regulated by a common promoter seq...