Adiponectin (APN), an adipose tissue-released adipokine with demonstrated anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties, is encoded by a gene whose polymorphisms are associated with presence of coronary artery disease (CAD). Serum APN levels are inversely related with presence and complexity of CAD. Within this context, we sought to compare levels of total APN and its high molecular weight ...

Modern systems built for the desktop, the web, and the cloud are increasingly being developed in several languages, share code and data with multiple parties of varying levels of authority and trust, and run in environments split across client and server. My goal is to design programming language tools — including type systems, program analysis, dynamic instrumentation, and integrated developme...

The club environment contains a lot of interaction, mainly visitor to visitor but also between the visitor and the people employed by the club such as bartenders and DJs (disc jockey). There is not much a visitor can do to affect the environment, apart from asking the DJ if he or she would like to play a certain song. The people that attend the club should be able to enhance their own and every...

Abstract Introduction Adolescents who experience insufficient, poor quality sleep, and sleep problems might difficulties with externalizing behaviors including aggression impulse control (Bauducco et al., 2019; Brown 2022). Surprisingly, behavior for youth residing in long short-term juvenile justice facilities is understudied. The present preliminary analysis explores self-reported aggressive ...

In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of D’Groove, an intelligent Disc Jockey (DJ) system that uses a haptic turntable for controlling the playback of digital audio. We begin by describing the tasks of a DJ and defining some of the challenges associated with the traditional DJ process. We then introduce our new system, discussing how it improves auditory navigation for DJs and...

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 The differences between ITS-90 and IPTS-68 above 1235 K are described. It is shown that none of the following CIE definitions or recommendations require revision because of the introduction of the ITS-90: International Lighting Vocabulary definitions; CIE Standard Illuminants A, Djs, other illuminants; and sources for realiz...

The problem of Dynamic Job Shop (DJS) scheduling is one of the most complex problems of machine scheduling. This problem is one of NP-Hard problems for solving which numerous heuristic and metaheuristic methods have so far been presented. Genetic Algorithms (GA) are one of these methods which are successfully applied to these problems. In these approaches, of course, better quality of solutions...

word count: 198 text word count: 5414 Acknowledgments: We thank Dr. Stephanie Hiss (University of Bonn, Germany) for bovine Hp determination. Supported by the Foundation for Research at the Medical Faculty, University of Zurich (DS) and by the Hartmann-Muller Foundation (DS). Contributions: DJS: designed and performed research, wrote the paper; CAS: performed research; PWB: performed research; ...

The performance of electronica by Disc Jockys (DJs) presents a unique opportunity to develop interactions between performer and music. Through recent research in the MIR field, new tools for expanding DJ performance are emerging. The use of spectral, loudness, and temporal descriptors for the classification of electronica is explored. Our research also introduces the use of a multitouch interfa...