ABCC8 clinical and functional characterization of the Pro1198Leu ABCC8 gene mutation associated with permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus, Takagi 269–273 adipocyte fatty acid binding protein obesity as the common soil of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and diabetes: role of adipokines (Review Article), Hui 413–425 adipokines glypican-4 is a new comer of adipokines working as insulin sensitize...

s from The 9th International Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Region Congress, 4th Scientific Meeting of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes, November 24--27 November, 2012, Kyoto, Japan Supplement 1, 1--304 abdominal obesity visceral adipose tissue level, as estimated by the bioimpedance analysis method, is associated with impaired lung function, Inomata 331--336 acarbose glucag...

The eighty-six articles that have been summarized for this volume present an in-terweaving of observation and theory that will be of use to the many people who are concerned about the topic of work and about its future in a time of rapid globalization and technical change. It is relevant to workers in general, including those who care about the evolution of unions; to people who are involved in...

The source of equine-virulent strains of Venezuelan equine encephalitis (WE) virus that sporadically cause epidemics and equine epizootics is unknown. This is the most important unanswered scientific and public health question relating to VEE virus. One possibility is that epizootic virions exist at low levels in populations of enzootic strains. These virions could then break out into a visible...

This report summarizes my research on the visualization of scalar fields and the rendering of participating media. A strong focus of my work is on the development of optical models for exploring and visualizing volumetric data sets interactively. In particular, my research is concentrated on goal-oriented optical models that offer simple control over the visual properties of a visualization com...

Since the announcement of the Differential Power Analysis (DPA) by Paul Kocher and al., several countermeasures were proposed in order to protect software implementations of cryptographic algorithms. In an attempt to reduce the resulting memory and execution time overhead, a general method was recently proposed, consisting in “masking” all the intermediate data. This masking strategy is possibl...

The relationship between placental size and pathology and risk of stillbirth is well recognised. Placental volume may predict birthweight and by association, outcome of pregnancy. The size of the placenta can be determined by two-dimensional sonography and volumetric mathematic modelling [1] and placental volume could be calculated at each ultrasound scan. We have developed a mathematical solut...

abdominal obesity predictors of deterioration of glucose tolerance and effects of lifestyle intervention aimed at reducing visceral fat in normal glucose tolerance subjects with abdominal obesity, Akita 218–224 Abstracts from the 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes, 22–24 July 2011, Beijing, China Supplement 1, 1–106 adipocyte adipocytes as a vehicle for ex...

There is increasing evidence that entropy can induce microphase separation in binary fluid mixtures interacting through hard particle potentials. One such phase consists of alternating two-dimensional liquidlike layers of rods and spheres. We study the transition from a uniform miscible state to this ordered state using computer simulations, and compare results to experiments and theory. We con...