In the present study, we examined the associations of early nutrition with adult lean body mass (LBM) and muscle strength in a birth cohort that was established to assess the long-term impact of a nutrition program. Participants (n = 1,446, 32% female) were born near Hyderabad, India, in 29 villages from 1987 to 1990, during which time only intervention villages (n = 15) had a government progra...

Current approaches to Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) are computationally quite expensive for most realistic scientific and engineering applications of Fluid Dynamics such as automobiles or atmospheric flows. The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), with its simplified kinetic descriptions, has emerged as an important tool for simulating hydrodynamics. In a heterogeneous computing environment, it ...

An immersed interface-lattice Boltzmann method (II-LBM) is developed for modelling fluid-structure systems. The key element of this approach the determination jump conditions that are satisfied by distribution functions within framework lattice when forces imposed along a surface in an incompressible fluid. In initial II-LBM, discontinuity related to normal portion interfacial force sharply res...

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has recently become an alternative and promising computational fluid dynamics approach for simulating complex fluid flows. Despite its enormous success in many practical applications, the standard LBM is restricted to the lattice uniformity in the physical space. This is the main drawback of the standard LBM for flow problems with complex geometry. Several app...

BACKGROUND Propofol induction dose is variable and depends on many factors, including initial volume of distribution and early disposition. The authors hypothesized that preadministration blood distribution volumes, cardiac output (CO), and hepatic blood flow (HBF) could be examined to establish a propofol induction dose. METHODS Propofol dose required to reach loss of consciousness, when inf...

Laser beam machining (LBM) is one of the most widely used thermal energy based non-contact type advance machining process. In recent years, researchers have explored a number of ways to improve the LBM process performance by analyzing different factors that affect the quality characteristics of LBM process such as kerf width, kerf taper, surface finish etc. It is revealed from the literature th...

In this paper, a diffuse-interface lattice Boltzmann method (DI-LBM) is developed for fluid–particle interaction problems. method, the sharp interface between fluid and solid replaced by thin but nonzero thickness transition region named diffuse interface, where physical variables change continuously. order to describe we introduce smooth function, which similar parameter in phase-field model o...

Amorphous metals which are synonymously called metallic glasses form a rather young group of engineering materials. Compared to crystalline metals they offer unique combinations of properties: tensile strength, hardness, elastic strain, resistance against corrosion and abrasive wear are rather high. In order to minimize crystal growth, rapid solidification from the liquid phase is required. Hig...

Plasma transthyretin (TTR) is a plasma protein secreted by the liver that circulates bound to retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4) and its retinol ligand. TTR is the sole plasma protein that reveals from birth to old age evolutionary patterns that are closely superimposable to those of lean body mass (LBM) and thus works as the best surrogate analyte of LBM. Any alteration in energy-to-protein bala...

The applicability of body composition as estimated by the bioimpedance method to predict energy expenditure (EE) was studied. Ten healthy subjects underwent measurement of body composition and 24-h energy expenditure (24-h EE) twice in a respiration chamber on a fixed program. The 24-h EE and its components, sleeping EE (SEE), basal EE (BEE), and daytime EE, for an individual were very reproduc...