BACKGROUND Certain types of carbohydrates increase glucose and insulin levels to a greater extent than others. In turn, insulin may raise levels of insulin-like growth factors, which may influence breast cancer risk. We analyzed the effect of type and amount of carbohydrates on breast cancer risk, using the glycemic index and the glycemic load measures in a large case-control study conducted in...

It has been proposed that the abdominal muscle receptor organ (MRO) of decapod crustaceans acts in a sensory feedback loop to compensate for external load. There is not yet unequivocal evidence of MRO activity during slow abdominal extension in intact animals, however. This raises the possibility that MRO involvement in load compensation is context-dependent. We recorded from MRO tonic stretch ...

An antileishmanial compound, 14-deoxy-11-oxo-andrographolide, a derivative of andrographlide, isolated from the Indian medicinal plant Andrographis paniculata was evaluated for efficacy in free form and in different vesicular delivery modes on hamster model of Leishmaniasis. The subcutaneous injection of free drug reduced the spleen parasite load by 39%, whereas for drug incorporated in liposom...

Keeping aware of the locations of objects while one is moving requires the updating of spatial representations. As long as the objects are visible, attentional tracking is sufficient, but knowing where objects out of view went in relation to one's own body involves an updating of spatial working memory. Here, multiple object tracking was employed to study spatial updating and its neural correla...

The aims of this study were: to analyze differences in learning outcomes, satisfaction, a sense class community, and student involvement between the experimental control classes, effect styles on involvement. This type research is quasi-experimental, with population accounting education students. sampling technique uses purposive. Data collection techniques form tests questionnaires. analysis p...

every year, with regard to rapid development of data, grid computing that is a kind of distributed computing system is that it has attracted the attention of most people and considerably taken into account. computing that cannot be done by huge computers can be performed by grid computing. if load balance is used, efficiency will increase in grid. resources have an important and effective role ...

The problem of short-term electric load forecasting (STLF) is considered. A modified architecture of Elman-type recurrent neural network is proposed. It utilizes a special fuzzification layer to deal with quantitative as well as ordinal and nominal data. The second hidden layer of the network consists of standard Rosenblatt-type neurons with sigmoidal activation functions. The context layer is ...

efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (ppi) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. this brief commentary discusses a recent paper by carter and martin exploring the “challenges facing healthwatch, a new consumer champion in england,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...