BACKGROUND & AIMS Severe obesity imposes physical limitations to body composition assessment. Our aim was to compare body fat (BF) estimations of severely obese patients obtained by bioelectrical impedance (BIA) and air displacement plethysmography (ADP) for development of new equations for BF prediction. METHODS Severely obese subjects (83 female/36 male, mean age=41.6+/-11.6 years) had BF e...

Auditory conditioning (associative learning) causes reorganization of the cochleotopic (frequency) maps of the primary auditory cortex (AI) and the inferior colliculus. Focal electric stimulation of the AI also evokes basically the same cortical and collicular reorganization as that caused by conditioning. Therefore, part of the neural mechanism for the plasticity of the central auditory system...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the predictive capacity of body fat percentage (%BF) estimated by equations using body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) to identify hypertension and estimate measures of association between high %BF and hypertension in adults. METHODS This is a cross-sectional population-based study conducted with 1,720 adults (20-59 years) from Flor...

The neuroprotective effects of a butanol fraction of white rose petal extract (WRPE-BF) were investigated in a middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model. Seven week-old male rats were orally administered WRPE-BF for 2 weeks and subjected to MCAO for 2 h, followed by reperfusion. Twenty-four h later, MCAO-induced behavioral dysfunctions were markedly improved in a dose-dependent manner by pr...

AIM To investigate effect of capsaicin-evoked masseter-muscle pain on intramuscular blood-flow (BF) at rest and during contractions. METHODS Eight healthy men (22-31 years) participated. BF was measured with Laser Doppler (Moor Instruments, UK) using a single-fibre probe inserted into the right masseter. Three BF probes were attached to the skin above right and left masseter and the right-mid...

A Bloom Filter (BF) is a data structure suitable for performing set membership queries very efficiently. A Standard Bloom Filter representing a set of n elements is generated by an array of m bits and uses k independent hash functions. Bloom Filters have some attractive properties including low storage requirement, fast membership checking and no false negatives. False positives are possible bu...

The Bloom filter (BF) is a space efficient randomized data structure particularly suitable to represent a set supporting approximate membership queries. BFs have been extensively used in many applications especially in networking due to their simplicity and flexibility. The performances of BFs mainly depends on query overhead, space requirements and false positives. The aim of this paper is to ...

Background: The association of duration of breastfeeding (BF)  with  weight disorders remains controversial.  This study aimed to evaluate the association of BF with anthropometric measures and weight disorders in Iranian children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: Using multistage random cluster sampling method, a representative sample of 25,000 school students were selected from urban an...

the author studies the $bf r$$g$-module $a$ such that $bf r$ is an associative ring‎, ‎a group $g$ has infinite section $p$-rank (or infinite 0-rank)‎, ‎$c_{g}(a)=1$‎, ‎and for every‎ ‎proper subgroup $h$ of infinite section $p$-rank (or infinite 0-rank respectively) the quotient module $a/c_{a}(h)$ is‎ ‎a finite $bf r$-module‎. ‎it is proved that if the group $g$ under‎ ‎consideration is local...