There is a growing interest in modulating gut microbiota with diet in the context of obesity. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the dose-dependent effects of prebiotics (inulin and oligofructose) on gut satiety hormones, energy expenditure, gastric emptying and gut microbiota. Male lean and obese JCR:LA-cp rats were randomised to either of the following: lean 0 % fibre (LC), lean...

Two modeling techniques [artificial neural network-genetic algorithm (ANN-GA) and stepwise regression analysis] were used to predict the effect of medium macro-nutrients on in vitro performance of pear rootstocks (OHF and Pyrodwarf). The ANN-GA described associations between investigating eight macronutrients (NO[Formula: see text], NH[Formula: see text], Ca(2+), K(+), Mg(2+), PO[Formula: see t...

Online healthcare forums (OHFs) have become increasingly popular for patients to share their health-related experiences. The healthcare-related texts posted in OHFs could help doctors and patients better understand specific diseases and the situations of other patients. To extract the meaning of a post, a commonly used way is to classify the sentences into several predefined categories of diffe...

BACKGROUND Estrogens and androgens have anti-resorptive effects on bone, although recent evidence indicates that, even in men, estrogen is the dominant sex steroid regulating bone resorption. The receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand is essential for osteoclastic bone resorption, and its effects are blocked by the decoy receptor, osteoprotegerin (OPG). While estrogen has been shown to induce o...

The success of open source software in other fields has generated a surge of interest in open source for healthcare. Open source initiatives not only help reduce costs for the patients and healthcare providers but also establish standards that are necessary to prevent vendor lock-in. The National Health Information Network (NHIN) project is aimed at modernizing the US Healthcare Information Inf...

Octavio Roncero Inst. de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, C.S.I.C., Unidad Asociada UAM-CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain. Abstract In this work three-dimensional potential energy surfaces of the first five singlet states of OHF are developed based on fits of more than 10000 highly accurate ab initio points. An approximate treatment is presented for the calculation of the anisotropy param...

This study was conducted to compare Ventral Median Approach (OHM) and Lateral Flank (OHF) for feline ovariohysterectomy (OH). Fifteen healthy local female cats (Felis catus) with body weights ranged 2-4 kg aged 1-2 years were divided into two groups, OHM (n= 8) OHF 7). Prior OH, the anesthethized using ketamine-xylazine sugery performed by same operator. The wound scoring showed a significantly...

Ocean-to-ice heat flux (OHF) is important in regulating the variability of sea ice mass balance. Using surface drifting buoy observations, we show that during winter Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre region, OHF increased from 0.76 ± 0.05 W/m2 over 2006–2012 to 1.63 0.08 2013–2018. We find this a result thinner and less-compact promotes enhanced growth, stronger ocean vertical convection, subsurface...