BACKGROUND Dietary factors play an important role in glycemic control in diabetic patients. However, little is known about their effects among Chinese diabetic patients, whose diets are typically abundant in fiber and high in glycemic index (GI) values. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS 934 patients with type 2 diabetes and 918 healthy volunteers from Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China, were inter...

BACKGROUND Despite increased investment in its recognition and treatment, depression remains a substantial health and economic burden worldwide. Current treatment strategies generally focus on biological and psychological pathways, largely neglecting the role of lifestyle. There is emerging evidence to suggest that diet and nutrition play an important role in the risk, and the genesis, of depre...

background: the present study was conducted to investigate the possible effects of l-carnitine and glutamine and their synergistic effects on male soccer athletes. methods: 28 male soccer players (21.1±0.7 y) were enrolled in a randomized pre and post intervention, double-blind design. before the intervention, their performances were assessed by bruce protocol, and their body composition was me...

In all types of data communication systems, errors may occur. Therefore error control is necessary for reliable data communication. Error control involves both error detection and error correction. Previously error detection can be done by Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) codes and error correction can be performed by retransmitting the corrupted data block popularly known as Automatic Repeat Requ...

As electronic transaction becomes common practice in real-world business, its dependability develops into a major concern, especially in critical transactions, e.g., electronic payment and electronic contract signing. Many recent fair-exchange protocols can recover the transaction from network failures; however, few can survive local system failures. In this paper, we propose a new Dependable E...

objectives this study tried to codify the recommendations of iranian traditional medicine (itm) by studying the main medical manuscripts. the second purpose was to compare these findings with new medical information. materials and methods cardinal traditional medical and pharmacological texts from 10th to 18th century were searched for traditional terms of dementia (nesyan, fisad-uz-zekr, faram...

A new 4-pass Key-Agreement-Protocol is presented. The security of the protocol mainly relies on the existence of a (polynomial-time computable) One-Way-Function and the supposed computational hardness of solving a specific system of equations.