The main aim of this study was to analyze overweight and obesity in children on the basis of body mass index (BMI) and triceps skinfold thickness (TSF). The sample included 5613 children, aged 6 to12 years (X = 9.23; SD = 1.69) from Slovenia. Children were classified as non-overweight, overweight and obese according to age and sex specific BMI cut-off points. The results show that 18.3% of boys...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and other receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are overexpressed and/or mutated in various cancers and their abnormal activation is implicated in carcinogenesis. We explored the possibility of generating an imaging probe for RTK activation using the SH2 domain of Grb2 for cancer characterization. For cell penetration, molecular analysis and radiolabeling, the...

INTRODUCTION Our motivation is increased bronchoscopic diagnostic yield and optimized preparation, for navigated bronchoscopy. In navigated bronchoscopy, virtual 3D airway visualization is often used to guide a bronchoscopic tool to peripheral lesions, synchronized with the real time video bronchoscopy. Visualization during navigated bronchoscopy, the segmentation time and methods, differs. Tim...

We have described (1) a biologically active antigen-specific Ly-1-; 2 + T cell product that has the capacity to suppress the ability of Ly-2 cell-depleted spleen cells to make primary responses in Mishell-Dutton cultures. It has been presumed that this material, referred to as "Ly-2 suppressor factor from T cells (TsF), ''1 is a direct suppressor molecule because (a) it requires no other cells ...

To date, thermally activated delayed fluorescence-sensitized fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (TSF-OLEDs) have undergone substantial research to achieve high efficiency and good operational stability in wide color gamut regions. Usually, a highly efficient TSF device, the Förster resonance energy transfer rate (kFRET) should be enhanced, whereas Dexter (kDET) suppressed. Even though de...

This study assessed the anthropometric status of 451 hospitalised female patients aged 70 or over, at their admission to hospital, in reference to 77 healthy women of the same age. The most frequent diseases were circulatory diseases (40.8%), mental disorders (29.9%), respiratory diseases (12.4%), endocrine and metabolic diseases (11.5%), osteomuscular diseases (8.4%), and traumatisms (6.9%). T...

Time Series Forecasting (TSF) uses past patterns of an event in order to predict its future values and is a key tool to support decision making. In the last decades, Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and more recently Support Vector Machines (SVM), have been proposed for TSF. The accuracy of the best CI model is affected by both the selection o...

There is increasing interest in wireless ad hoc networks built from portable devices equipped with short-range wireless network interfaces. This paper addresses issues related to internetworking such networks to form larger “scatternets.” Within the constraints imposed by the emerging standard Bluetooth link layer and MAC protocol, we describe an efficient online topology formation algorithm, c...

We described a T suppressor factor made by an I-J- Ly-2 T cell (Ly-2 TsF) that expresses biological activity only when its acceptor cell shares H-2-linked polymorphic genes with the cells that made the Ly-2 TsF (or when the producer cell had differentiated in a thymic environment where the gene products of the acceptor cell were expressed). The Ly-2 TsF requires the presence of I-J+ Ly-1 cells ...

In this report we examined the possibility that suppression of the mixed lymphocyte response by MLR-TsF results from interference with IL-2 regulation of T cell proliferation. Two distinct processes of inhibition involving both a direct effect on IL-2-driven proliferation of responder T cells, and induction of a second-order suppressor cell (Ts2) were described. Exogenous IL-2 did not abrogate ...