The present study compared the effects of a high- and normal-casein-protein breakfast on satiety, 'satiety' hormones, plasma amino acid responses and subsequent energy intake. Twenty-five healthy subjects (BMI 23.9 (SEM 0.3) kg/m2; age 22 (SEM 1) years) received a subject-specific standardised breakfast (20% of daily energy requirements): a custard with casein as the single protein source with ...

This paper will explore the possibilities of critical dimension scanning electron microscope (CD-SEM) metrology at sub10 nm feature sizes using modeling. JMONSEL simulations will be used to illustrate SEM waveforms for very small features, as a function of beam energy, feature size, profile height and sidewall angle. It will also be shown that the dimensions of the electron beam and interaction...

Unobserved heterogeneity is a serious but often neglected problem in structural equation modelling (SEM) challenging the validity of many empirical results. Recently, a finite mixture approach to SEM has been proposed to resolve this problem but until now only a few studies analyse the performance of the relevant software. The contribution of this paper is twofold: First, results from a Monte C...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is used to evaluate potential chromosome preparations and staining methods for application in high-resolution three-dimensional X-ray imaging. Our starting point is optical fluorescence microscopy, the standard method for chromosomes, which only gives structural detail at the 200 nm scale. In principle, with suitable sample preparation protocols, including con...

Progress in rational engineering of Li-ion batteries requires better understanding of the electrochemical processes and accompanying transformations in the electrode materials on multiple length scales. In spite of recent progress in utilizing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to analyze these materials, in situ scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was mostly overlooked as a powerful tool th...

Images of a hematite-based epoxy coating are obtained by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). At the scale of a few micrometers, they show aggregates of hematite nano-particles organized along thin curved channels. We first segment the images and analyze them using mathematical morphology. The heterogeneous dispersion of particles is quantified using the correlation function and the granulometry...

OBJECTIVE A potent heteronymous group II excitation of quadriceps motor neurons has been recently demonstrated in normal subjects. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether this heteronymous group II excitation also contributes to spasticity in hemiplegic patients. METHOD The early and late facilitations of the quadriceps H reflex elicited by a conditioning volley to the common ...

Meuleman and Billiet (2009) have carried out a simulation study aimed at the question how many countries are needed for accurate multilevel SEM estimation in comparative studies. The authors concluded that a sample of 50 to 100 countries is needed for accurate estimation. Recently, Bayesian estimation methods have been introduced in structural equation modeling which should work well with much ...