Submitted by dallison on Tue, 10/08/2013 9:34am Title Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2013 Authors Brown, AW, Allison, DB Journal Virtual Mentor Volume 15 Issue 4 Pagination 339-46 Date Published 2013 ISSN 1937-7010

BACKGROUND Observational studies have shown that postmenopausal hormone therapy may increase, decrease, or have no effect on the risk of stroke. To date, no clinical trial has examined this question. To investigate the relation between estrogen plus progestin therapy and risk of stroke among postmenopausal women, we analyzed data collected from the Heart & Estrogen-progestin Replacement Study (...

We have studied spacetime structures of static solutions in the n-dimensional Einstein-GaussBonnet-Maxwell-Λ system. Especially we focus on effects of the Maxwell charge. We assume that the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient α is non-negative and 4α̃/l ≤ 1 in order to define the relevant vacuum state. Solutions have the (n− 2)-dimensional Euclidean sub-manifold whose curvature is k = 1, 0, or −1. In Gauss...

This article presents a study on the power consumption and performance analysis of small, portable, ultra-low total L-band radiometer. The explores two processing architectures: ZYNQ 7010 ARM A8 embedded microprocessor. algorithm based in C++ was tested for different clock frequencies, ADC sampling speeds, sizes buffer. To reduce execution time, high-level system-level opti...

A two-point binding mechanism for the cationic rhodium(I)-catalyzed carbonyl-directed catalytic asymmetric hydroboration of a cyclic γ,δ-unsaturated amide is investigated using density functional theory. Geometry optimizations and harmonic frequency calculations for the model reaction are carried out using the basis set 6-31+G** for C, O, P, B, N, and H and LANL2DZ for Rh atoms. The Gibbs free ...

Interactions of CD47 and RhAG and the Rh proteins are visualized between one another and with the cytoskeleton of intact erythrocytes. In a first study, CD47 is labeled with a phycoerythrin (PhE)- tagged antibody, which generates discrete spots that reflect induced clusters of CD47. Rh and RhAG colocalize with each other and to these induced clusters, whereas Band 3 and glycophorin C remain mor...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Erythropoietin (EPO), a hematopoietic growth factor, has been shown to be neuroprotective when administered as either a pretreatment or posttreatment. This study tested the hypothesis that one of the mechanisms of protection afforded by posttreatment with recombinant human EPO (rh-EPO) is an anti-inflammatory effect via inhibition of interleukin (IL)-1beta. METHODS Seve...

chrysoperla carnea is a voracious predator. it is currently mass-reared and released for biological control programs. this study was aimed at finding out the effect of different diets on biological characteristics of adult predator, and to introduce a better and cheaper artificial diet for its mass-rearing. in order to obtain a pure and physiologically homogenous population, the predator was re...