Background: Weight regain (WR) after bariatric surgery is common. Several factors involved in WR have been identified, but there has little research on specific eating habits such as snacks rather than regular meals and being a “sweet-eater”.

In this paper we propose a very simple but highly effective algorithm for single channel noise reduction of speech signals. One of the main objectives is to find a balanced tradeoff between noise reduction and speech distortion in the processed signal. This is accomplished by a system based on spectral minimum detection and diffusive gain factors. Our approach to speech enhancement is capable o...

he metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by a clustering of individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus.1 These risk factors include high blood pressure, high fasting glucose, dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL]), and central obesity. Clinical definitions of the MetS, proposed by the International Diabetes ...

Evaluation metrics are an essential part of a ranking system, and in the past many evaluation metrics have been proposed in information retrieval and Web search. Discounted Cumulated Gains (DCG) has emerged as one of the evaluation metrics widely adopted for evaluating the performance of ranking functions used in Web search. However, the two sets of parameters, gain values and discount factors,...

OBJECTIVE Moderate weight gain is usual after starting insulin therapy. The identification and quantification of factors associated with weight gain may help target strategies for avoidance of weight gain. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The noninterventional CREDIT (Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation in people with type 2 Diabetes on Insulin Therapy) study included data from people with type 2 diabe...