OBJECTIVE To evaluate a maintenance-tailored therapy (MTT) compared to standard behavior therapy (SBT) for treatment of obesity. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE change in body weight. METHOD A non-blinded, randomized trial comparing effectiveness of MTT and SBT in facilitating sustained weight loss over 18 months; 213 adult volunteers> or =18 years participated. SBT had fixed behavioral goals, MTT goa...

This paper investigates & undertakes simulation based study of Adhoc Routing Protocols in Wi-Fi(802.11b) & WiMax(802.16e) Networks. In this paper comparison of four Routing Protocols AODV,DYMO,OLSR & IERP is done in a multicellular high mobility Wi-Fi & WiMax Networks using QualNet 5.0 Simulator. The metrics used for performance evaluation are Average Jitter, Throughput, End-to End delay, Signa...

The maximum segment density problem is this: Given a sequence of pairs (ai, wi), i = 1, 2, . . . , n, with wi > 0, and another pair of numbers L ≤ U , we have to find a subsequence ai, ai+1, . . . , aj whose density (ai + ai+1 + . . .+ aj)/(wi +wi+1 + . . .+wj) is maximum under the constraint that L ≤ wi + wi+1 + . . . + wj ≤ U . A principal motivation for studying this problem is its applicati...

OBJECTIVE The non-heart-beating donor has been proposed as a solution to donor shortage for renal transplantation. Because the nature of such donors, the kidneys so derived have been damaged by primary warm ischemia (WI), and so potentially they may never function. Minimizing graft injury is especially important in case of transplantation form marginal donors because of a high rate of delayed g...

the redundancy allocation problem can be described as selecting the components and system configuration in order to optimize some objective function(s) without violating the system constraints. operating conditions are not constant in many advanced engineering systems. mostly, in the engineering applications selection, the number of redundancy components must be balanced among the constraints (...

The objective of this study was to develop cut-off values and evaluate the accuracy of body mass index (BMI) in the definition of obesity in the Thai population. A cross-sectional, epidemiologic study in 340 men and 507 women aged 50 +/- 16 yr (mean +/- SD; range: 20-84 yr), were sampled by stratified clustering sampling method. Body composition, including percentage body fat (%BF), was measure...

485 This paper gives some extensions of the selection mathematics based on the covariance function published in Price (1970). Application of the mathematics to 'group s.election' is briefly illustrated. More about applications will be shown in a later paper concerning 'Selection in populations with overlapping generations', which will be submitted to this journal. To facilitate reference in tha...

While Wi-Fi 5 is still sufficient for many organizations and businesses, it important to consider upgrade 6. This article discusses the main differences between The goal identify key metrics transmission of information content signals, a method determining best use signals certain categories use, an analysis study influence frequencies on quality transmitted information, also analyzes growth ra...