OBJECTIVES Epidemiological studies have shown significant relationships between the use of dietary components and prostate cancer incidence and mortality. Large studies of primary prevention, which confirm these findings, are desirable but costly and difficult to design. The present tertiary prevention study reports on the effect of a dietary supplement in comparison with placebo on the rate of...

Bimodal globular cluster metallicity distributions have now been seen in a handful of large ellipticals. Here we report the discovery of a bimodal distribution in the dominant group elliptical NGC 5846, using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The two peaks are located at V–I = 0.96 and 1.17, which roughly correspond to metallicities of [Fe/H] = –1.2 and –0....

IT has been shown by Zuntz(l), Alexander Schmidt(2), and Fre'de'ricq(3)2, that the serum of blood contains more C02 than the corpuscles. On the other hand, it is stated that if C02 acts on the serum and corpuscles which have been separated from one another, then the corpuscles contain more C02 than the serum. This has been explained by an interchange of acid and basic radicles between corpuscle...

Joseph L. Kirschvink* Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, The California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (Received 5 August 1985) Current experimental limits on the number of magnetic monopoles bound in matter are based on only a few dozen kilograms of material, and of the former experiments only a handful used superconducting-quantum-interference-device(SQUID) ba...

Replicated the efficacy of a short-term, combined medical and behavioral intervention protocol for retentive encopresis. Fifty-nine children who had failed standard medical management for retentive encopresis and their parents participated in six 1-hour group treatment sessions. Treatment protocol combined the medical management strategies of enema clean out, increasing dietary fiber, and daily...

BACKGROUND There are many challenges involved in running randomised controlled dietary intervention trials that investigate health outcomes. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the recruitment process, retention of participants and challenges faced in our dairy intervention trial, and to provide strategies to combat the difficulties of running long-term dietary intervention trials. METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE Dietary fibre has been linked to lower levels of glycosylated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) among diabetes patients. The present study aimed to evaluate the long-term effect of dietary fibre on HbA1c levels among Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. DESIGN Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted in 2006 and 2011, with the second one being a repeat survey on a sub-sample from...

Our society expects engineers to develop products that are affordable, functional and sustainable. Effective product realization methods and tools are the answers to these societal expectations. In this paper, a new type of CAE tools, called virtual and augmented reality technologies, is introduced, reviewed and examined to reveal their great potentials in product realization. Specific areas wh...