OBJECTIVE To test whether weaning to a bovine insulin-free cow's milk formula (CMF) reduces type 1 diabetes mellitus-associated autoantibodies in children at genetic risk. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind pilot trial (Finnish Dietary Intervention Trial for the Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes [FINDIA]). SETTING Three pediatric hospitals in Finland from May 15, 2002, to November 22, 2005. PARTICIPAN...

Abstract The microstatistic multi-user receiver (MSF-MUD) belongs to non–linear single–stage multi-user receivers' family (NSS–MUD) [1-3]. The output of the MSF-MUD is taken as the sign of the multi-channel nonlinear transformation of the output of a bank of the matched filters (BMF). The non-linear transformation is made by multi-channel conventional microstatistic filter (M-CMF) [2]. The M-CM...

Context. Stars form in dense, dusty clumps of molecular clouds, but little is known about their origin and evolution. In particular, the relationship between the mass distribution of these clumps (also known as the “clump mass function”, or CMF) and the stellar initial mass function (IMF), is still poorly understood. Aims. In order to discern the “true” shape of the CMF and to better understand...

Litterfall, directly and indirectly, affects the soil physicochemical properties, microbial activity, diversity of fauna flora by adding organic matter nutrients to soil. This study explores litterfall dynamics such as production, litter decomposition rate, associated nutrient return in three forest types, that is, camphor tree (CTF), Masson pine (MPF), mixed (CMF), subtropical China. Results s...

A complete understanding of the origin of the prestellar core mass function (CMF) is crucial. Two major features of the prestellar CMF are 1) a broad peak below 1 M , presumably corresponding to a mean gravitational fragmentation scale, and 2) a characteristic power-law slope, very similar to the Salpeter slope of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) at the high-mass end. While recent Hersch...

the disease of thalassemia major requires mangement by repeated transfusions of packed cell and iron chelators such as deferoxamine. today, serum ferritin is used for estimation of adequacy of the management. as the most morbidities and mortalities of the disease are the consequences of cardiac complications. echocardiography is periodically periodically performed along with the management. in ...

It has been shown that fragmentation within self-gravitating, turbulent molecular clouds (‘turbulent fragmentation’) can naturally explain the observed properties of protostellar cores, including the core mass function (CMF). Here, we extend recently developed analytic models for turbulent fragmentation to follow the time-dependent hierarchical fragmentation of selfgravitating cores, until they...

conclusion the cv value correlated more closely with low lvef and more accurately indicated an enlarged heart than ca or ctr. this may be due to the fact that an anteroposterior measurement of heart size is included in the former but not the latter two measurements. these study results may help quantify left heart enlargement with greater accuracy than may be obtained from standard cxr. backgro...

Similarity in shape between the initial mass function (IMF) and core functions (CMFs) star-forming regions prompts idea that IMF originates from CMF through a self-similar core-to-star mapping process. To accurately determine of CMF, we create sample 8,431 cores with dust continuum maps Cygnus X giant molecular cloud complex, design procedure for deriving considering uncertainty, binning incomp...