BACKGROUND & AIMS Gluten ingestion leads to small intestinal mucosal injury in patients with celiac disease, necessitating strict life-long exclusion of dietary gluten. Despite adherence to a gluten-free diet, many patients remain symptomatic and still have small intestinal inflammation. In this case, nondietary therapies are needed. We investigated the ability of ALV003, a mixture of 2 recombi...

Introduction: Given the known association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake and poorer health, we instituted an educational curriculum to reduce student consumption of SSBs. Methods: The program included third- to fifth-grade students. A simple demonstration using teaspoons of sugar or small candies showed students the quantity of added sugar in common beverages. This amount of suga...

Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is a high order finite element method for solving hyperbolic conservation laws employing useful features from high resolution finite volume schemes, such as the exact or approximate Riemann solvers serving as numerical fluxes, TVDRunge–Kutta time discretizations, and limiters. Inmost of theRKDGpapers in the literature, theLax–Friedrichs numerical...

This study analyses the relationship between fire incidence and some environmental factors, exploring the spatial non-stationarity of the phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) was used to study the above relationship. Environment covariates comprise land cover, anthropogenic and climatic variables. GWR was compared to ordinary least squares, and the hypothes...

We evaluated the effect of a loyalty program in terms of its ability to alter normal repeatpurchase patterns and move a brand into an “excess loyalty” position. In doing so we replicate the work of (Sharp and Sharp, 1997) and extend the research by examining an almost identical loyalty program but in a more “promotion sensitive” market (and in a different country) and where a retaliatory price ...

This paper has two major goals: (1) to study the effect of the common practice of neglecting the convective terms (inertial approximation) in the hydrodynamic model in the simulation of n+-n-n+ diodes and two dimensional MESFET devices; and, (2) to test analytical criteria, formulated in terms of characteristic values of the Jacobian matrix, as a method of determining the impact of first deriva...