BACKGROUND Weight suppression (WS), which is the difference between a patient's highest and current weight, has been associated with bulimic symptom severity in adults with bulimia nervosa (BN). However, the impact of WS on eating disorder psychopathology in youth with BN is unknown. METHODS Participants included 85 youth with DSM-5 BN who presented for outpatient treatment. Current WS was ca...

Williams syndrome (WS) is a unique genetic developmental disorder characterized by excessive social behaviour accompanied by exaggerated prosody. While past studies with off-line assessment of prosodic skills report significant delays in prosodic skills in individuals with WS as compared to typically developing controls, reports typically lack speech analysis. The current study, using a speech ...

Several languages for specification of various aspects of semantics, such as quality of service (QoS), of XML Web services have appeared recently. However, none of them is widely accepted by industry. On the other hand, WS-Policy (a general framework for the specification of policies for Web services) has strong industry support, but currently lacks detailed specification of ontological meaning...

Beginning with SOAP, Web Services (WS) have now been around for about five years. They have reached the point where mainstream customers are beginning to use them or at least seriously consider doing so. Based on my own experience, most successful WS applications reside inside the enterprise, where they help integrate disparate systems. Typically, these integrations are based on fairly simple u...

Along with a continuously growing number of publicly available Web services (WS), we are witnessing a rapid development in semantic-related web technologies, which lead to the apparition of semantically described WS. In this work, we perform a comparative analysis of the syntactic and semantic approaches used to describe WS, from a complex network perspective. First, we extract syntactic and se...

Previous studies of children with Williams syndrome (WS) have found a specific deficit in dorsal cortical stream function, indicated by poor performance in coherence thresholds for motion compared to form. Here we investigated whether this is a transient developmental feature or a persisting aspect of cerebral organization in WS. Motion and form coherence thresholds were tested in a group of 45...

BACKGROUND Recent clinical studies have shown that the number of interstitial mast cells increases in various types of renal disease and correlates well with the magnitude of interstitial fibrosis. The present study was conducted to assess the role of mast cells in renal fibrosis by examining an experimental glomerular disease. METHODS A rat model of chronic glomerular disease, puromycin amin...

operation is true of a retrieved state, the representation state must satisfy the pre-condition of the representation operation. Theorem 8.6 For the first example in the preceding section, the sequent form of the domain obligation 8.4: ws ∈ Dicta, w ∈Word ` pre-CHECKWORD(w , retr -Dict(ws)) ⇒ pre-CHECKWORDa(w ,ws) is vacuously true because the operation on the representation is total. Theorem 8...