BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) induces remission in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). We investigated the short-term impact of EEN on bone quality and muscle mass in children with CD. METHODS Ten newly diagnosed CD patients (7 male, 10.6-17.7 years of age) were assessed by peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) at the forearm before starting an 8-weeks tre...

Seven common normalization strategies are compared for unstopped citation tone F0 in the Chinese dialects of Shanghai, Cantonese, Fúzhōu and Zhāngzhōu. A z-score normalization is shown to give clearly superior clustering as quantified by normalization index, but no indication of superiority for a prior log transform of F0 is found.

When comparing time series, z-normalization preprocessing and dynamic time warping (DTW) distance became almost standard procedure. This paper makes a point against carelessly using this setup by discussing implications and alternatives. A (conceptually) simpler distance measure is proposed that allows for a linear transformation of amplitude and time only, but is also open for other normalizat...

We present results from an extensive parallel search for rank-1 lattice rules using the LLL-spectral test with a new normalization strategy which is proposed in [1]. We introduce the main concepts concerning lattice rules and the spectral test and motivate the new normalization strategy for this test. The concepts for parallelization are explained and some results conclude the article.

Let UZ(n) be the minimal rank of n-universal Z-lattices, by which we mean positive definite Z-lattices which represent all positive Z-lattices of rank n. It is a well known fact that UZ(n) = n + 3 for 1 ≤ n ≤ 5. In this paper, we determine UZ(n) and find all n-universal lattices of rank UZ(n) for 6 ≤ n ≤ 8.

In this article we formalize a free Z-module and its rank. We formally prove that for a free finite rank Z-module V , the number of elements in its basis, that is a rank of the Z-module, is constant regardless of the selection of its basis. Z-module is necessary for lattice problems, LLL(Lenstra, Lenstra and Lovász) base reduction algorithm and cryptographic systems with lattice [15]. Some theo...