BACKGROUND Knowledge about their past medical history is central for childhood cancer survivors to ensure informed decisions in their health management. Knowledge about information provision and information needs in this population is still scarce. We thus aimed to assess: (1) the information survivors reported to have received on disease, treatment, follow-up, and late effects; (2) their infor...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and Gestational Diabetes (GDM) are important and escalating problems worldwide. GDM increases the risk of complications in pregnancy and birth, as well as a 1 in 2 chance of developing T2DM later in life. The burden of GDM extends to offspring, who have an increased risk of obesity and diabetes-further perpetuating the cycle of diabetes within families. Clinical ...

In these notes we construct a quantization functor, associating a Hilbert space H(V ) to a finite dimensional symplectic vector space V over a finite field Fq. As a result, we obtain a canonical model for the Weil representation of the symplectic group Sp (V ). The main technical result is a proof of a stronger form of the Stonevon Neumann theorem for the Heisenberg group over Fq. Our result an...

Assessing the spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem services (ESs) supply and demand, as well drivers thereof during specific time periods, is critical for regional policy making sustainable management. Taking Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration China an example, we studied four ES supply-demand budgets: carbon storage, water provision, food provision soil conservation from 2000 to 2...

A common method to determine the order of minimal realization of a continuous linear time invariant descriptor system is to decompose it into slow and fast subsystems using the Weierstrass canonical form. The Weierstrass decomposition should be avoided because it is generally an ill-conditioned problem that requires many complex calculations especially for high-dimensional systems. The present ...

the relationship between some habitat factors and fish assemblage was analyzed in the taleghan river, alborz province, iran. fish specimens from thirty-three sites were sampled by electrofishing device in october 2014. the habitat parameters, including elevation (m), water depth (cm), river width (m), river slope (%), current velocity (m.s-1), number of large stone (> 15 cm), average stone diam...

carcinogenesis is a multistep process characterized by the gradual accumulation of genetic changes that ultimately lead to cancer. these genetic mutations can impart limitless replicative potential to the cancer cells making them immortal. telomeres are repeat nucleotide sequence ttaggg that are present at the end of chromosomes. its functions are to protect the chromosomal ends and to ensure t...

n≥0 Γ(nKMg). Mg has been proven to be of general type for g ≥ 22 [EH,Fa,HaMu]. In particular in this case the finite generation of the canonical ring implies that the canonical model is birational to Mg. Recent progress has been made in this area. For example [BCHM] have proved the existence of canonical models in the case of smooth projective varieties of general type. A somewhat easier proble...

Fourteen different morphological traits in 169 and 131 cattle of Oulmes-Zaer and Tidili, respectively were recorded and analyzed using a multivariate approach. The characters measured included heart girth, wither height, rump height, rump length, rump width, chest depth, body length, neck length, cannon circumference, ear length, ear width, head length, horn length and tail length. Breed signif...