BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery has proved to be an effective strategy in treating obesity. However, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of 3 most common bariatric surgery procedures, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), sleeve gastrectomy (SG), and laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB), reported inconsistent results. We performed a systematic review and network meta-analysis to synthesize evide...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the heritability of child behaviour problems and investigate the association between maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and child behaviour problems in a genetically sensitive design. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING The Twins and Multiple Births Association Heritability Study (TAMBAHS) is an online UK-wide volunteer-based study investigating the deve...

to study the effects of foliar application of common and nano-sized iron sulphate on five sunflower cultivars (alster, olsion, hysun36, yourflour and hysun33) under two levels of salinity (0 and 100 mm nacl), a pot experiment in factorial based using a randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted. plant height, leaf area, shoot weight, chlorophyll content and the conce...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relations among prevalence of arterial hypertension, history of weight change, and current body weight in the range from normal weight to severe obesity. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of medical records of men registered with Danish military authorities from 1943 to 1977 and followed up four to 40 years later. SETTING Draft board of Copenhagen and surrounding countie...

The equipment investment scheme evaluation of enterprise is usually multi-objective optimization problem affected by many factors. Among many optimization methods, the common fuzzy matter element is based on the matter-element analysis and combined with the concepts of fuzzy mathematics, which can reflect the subjective fuzzy judgment; the common entropy weight method makes use of the judgment ...

Nonlinear principal components analysis is shown to generate some of the most common criteria for solving the linear independent components analysis problem. These include minimum kurtosis, maximum likelihood and the contrast score functions. In this paper, a topology that can separate the independent sources from a linear mixture by specifically utilizing a Gaussianizing nonlinearity is demons...

This paper is based on analysis of a common source - common gate low noise transconductance amplifier (CS-CG LNTA). Conventional noise analyses equations are modified by considering to the low output impedance of the sub-micron transistors and also, parasitic gate-source capacitance. The calculated equations are more accurate than calculated equations in other works. Also, analyses show that th...