OBJECTIVE Two major strategies have typically been used to assess recent drinking: (1) Daily Estimation (DE) measures such as the Timeline Followback (TLFB) and (2) Quantity-Frequency (QF) summary measures. Although QF measures provide a quick and easy measure of consumption, they have been criticized as not being able to capture sporadic and unpatterned drinking (e.g., days that reflect import...

The objectives of this work were (i) to investigate whether chronic endurance running is a sufficient stimulus to counteract the age-related changes in the mechanical and morphological properties of human triceps surae (TS) and quadriceps femoris (QF) muscle-tendon units (MTUs) by comparing runners and non-active subjects at different ages (young and old), (ii) to identify adaptational phenomen...

Defects in gate oxides/insulators have been characterized by many techniques, e.g., electrical, electron beam, ion beam, X-rays, neutron activation analysis, electron spin resonance, and others. These methods played a crucial role during the early MOS development to determine the origin of oxide/interface charges that led to unstable MOS devices. Thermally-grown oxides on silicon are now quite ...

Although cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific cell-mediated immunity (CMI) has been suggested as a predictive marker for CMV infection, proper CMI monitoring strategy in CMV-seropositive recipients and optimal method are not defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate two interferon gamma release assays during early post-transplant period as a predictor of the development of CMV infection in CMV-s...

Abstract— A linear space-time block code (STBC) is a vector space spanned by its defining weight matrices over the real number field. We define a Quadratic Form (QF), called the Hurwitz-Radon QF (HRQF), on this vector space and give a QF interpretation of the ML decoding complexity of a STBC. It is shown that the ML decoding complexity is only a function of the weight matrices defining the code...

Introduction. The purpose of this study was to investigate body composition, muscle function, and muscle morphology in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods. Ten male SpA patients (mean ± SD age 39 ± 4.1 years) were compared with ten healthy controls matched for sex, age, body mass index, and self-reported level of physical exercise. Body composition was measured by dual energy X-ray a...

Genomic aneuploidy is a common cause of human genetic disorders and cytogenetic analysis of metaphase karyotypes remain the standard method to identify aneuploidies and balanced translocations. Quantitative Fluorescence PCR (QF-PCR) is an alternative method in which DNA polymorphic markers on chromosomes, is used to determine the presence of different alleles. The assay based on the use of info...

In this paper we give a complete description of the space QF of quasifuchsian punctured torus groups in terms of what we call pleating invariants. These are natural invariants of the boundary ∂C of the convex core of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifold M and give coordinates for the non-Fuchsian groups QF −F . The pleating invariants of a component of ∂C consist of the projective class of its ...

Underage drinkers typically have not developed regular patterns of drinking and so are likely to exhibit situational variation in alcohol intake, including binge drinking. Information about such variation is not well captured by quantity/frequency (QF) measures, which require that drinkers blend information over time to derive a representative estimate of "typical" drinking. The Timeline Follow...

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