In addition to effects on appetite and metabolism, leptin influences many neuroendocrine and physiological systems, including the sympathetic nervous system. Building on my Carl Ludwig Lecture of the American Physiological Society, I review the sympathetic and cardiovascular actions of leptin. The review focuses on a critical analysis of the concept of selective leptin resistance (SLR) and the ...

INTRODUCTION Coastal vegetated habitats are on a global decline due to climate change, specifically sea level rise (SLR) and increased storminess (IPCC, 2014). These fringing environments connecting land and sea are important mediators of SLR and increased wave action, providing essential ecosystem services such as coastal protection, water purification, and erosion control (Barbier et al., 201...

With a total of four new regional and global navigation satellite systems that have launched first satellites or even started an operational service, the GNSS landscape has experienced major changes in recent years. As part of the Multi-GNSS Experiment (MGEX) of the International GNSS Service (IGS), a global network of multi-GNSS monitoring stations has been established and various analysis cen...

There is no established method for accurately predicting how much blood loss has occurred during hemorrhage. In the present study, we examine whether a genetic algorithm neural network (GANN) can predict volume of hemorrhage in an experimental model in rats and we compare its accuracy to stepwise linear regression (SLR). Serial measurements of heart period; diastolic, systolic, and mean blood p...

Lithium-rich argyrodites belong to a relatively new group of fast ion conducting solids. They might serve as powerful electrolytes in all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries being, from a medium-term point of view, the key technology when safe energy storage systems have to be developed. Spin-lattice relaxation (SLR) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements carried out in the rotating frame ...

CONTEXT-Mobile commerce (M-Commerce) is an emerging business paradigm in which the buying and selling of products and services is done through mobile equipment. These equipments are mobile phones, personal digital assistant (PDA) or other hand held wireless devices. M-commerce vendor organizations face many challenges regarding customer relationships management. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to d...

In recent years space geodetic techniques such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) have been collocated to address many applications in geoscience. While results from all these techniques are contaminated by various biases and errors, a commonmode signal has been found among the collocated results of GPS, VLBI and S...

Human body pose estimation and hand detection being the prerequisites for sign language recognition(SLR), are both crucial and challenging tasks in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. There are many algorithms to accomplish these tasks for which the performance measures need to be evaluated for body posture recognition on a sign language dataset, that would serve as a baseline to provide impo...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the occurrence of the M184V mutation in a single clinic setting over a period of 10 years. We examined the combination Antiretroviral Therapy (cART) being taken at the time of first identification of the M184V mutation as well as Second Line Regimens (SLR) started immediately after the documentation of M184V. SLR were evaluated for frequency ...

The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was applied at six major estuaries along Florida's Gulf Coast (Pensacola Bay, St. Andrews/Choctawhatchee Bays, Apalachicola Bay, Southern Big Bend, Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor) to provide quantitative and spatial information on how coastal ecosystems may change with sea level rise (SLR) and to identify how this information can be used to inform a...