Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to serious body composition adaptations characterized by increasing whole body fat mass and decreased soft tissue lean mass (LM). These adaptations in body composition may lead to several cardio-metabolic disorders that reduce the quality of life, increase patients' and caregivers' burden and eventually leads to mortality. Exercise, an appropriate dietary regimen,...

The aim of this study was to validate the performance and reliability of results obtained from a classification model that measures time spent performing activities in confined (CE) and unrestricted (UE) environments. In CE, participants wore a pair of biaxial and/or triaxial accelerometers while performing pre-determined training activities classified as variants of lying down, dynamic standin...

tea and sesame seed oils extracted by different methods (including supercritical fluid extraction (sfe), at a pressure of 350 atm, a temperature of 60oc, a static extraction time of 20 minutes, a dynamic extraction time of 30 minutes and 150 g kg-1 of ethanol as a modifier). solvent (se) and ultrasound-assisted solvent extraction (ue)), as natural anti-oxidants, were evaluated during 15 days st...

The surface current response to winds is analyzed in a two-year time series of a 12 MHz (HF) Wellen Radar (WERA) off the West coast of France. Consistent with previous observations, the measured currents, after filtering tides, are of the order of 1.0 to 1.8% of the wind speed, in a direction 10 to 40 degrees to the right of the wind, with systematic trends as a function of wind speed. This Lag...

BACKGROUND Hyperuricemia cases (HU) can be classified into four subgroups by combining the two main causes of hyperuricemia, i.e. urate underexcretion and overproduction. These subgroups are as follows: underexcretion-type cases (UE); overproduction-type cases (OP); combined-type cases, and normal-type cases. Since urinary urate excretion (Uua) and urate clearance differ significantly between U...

BACKGROUND The success rate of infertility treatments remains modest. Endometrial injury has been suggested as an intervention to increase the probability of pregnancy in women undergoing assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The majority of studies and systematic reviews have reported that endometrial injury improves the outcomes of IVF, intrauterine insemina...

In this paper the explicit (“obvious”) relation between mean effective gain of an antenna and its radiation efficiency has been pointed out. Introduction The user equipment (UE) is a vital element in UMTS networks which performance has a critical bearing on the overall system performance. In fact UE exhibiting poor performance will have a negative effect on the link quality, giving rise not onl...