The aim of the study was to investigate effects seasonal variability insolation, implementation new recommendations for vitamin D supplementation (2018), and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic lockdown (2020) on 25(OH)D concentrations in children from central Poland. retrospective analysis during last 8 years performed a group 1440 with short stature, aged 3.0–18.0 years. Significant differences were found be...

BACKGROUND The Multiple Sclerosis Questionnaire for Physical Therapists (MSQPT) is a patient-rated outcome questionnaire for evaluating the rehabilitation of persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). Responsiveness was evaluated, and minimal important difference (MID) estimates were calculated to provide thresholds for clinical change for four items, three sections and the total score of the MSQPT....

Holocene paleohydrology reconstruction is derived combining planktonic and benthic stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and oxygen isotope composition of seawater (δOw) from a high sedimentation core collected in the South Adriatic Sea (SAS). Core chronology is based on 10 AMS 14C measures on planktonic foraminifera and tephra layers. Results reveal two contrasted ...

Aim Recently, a flurry of studies have focused on the extent to which geographical patterns of diversity fit mid-domain effect (MDE) null models. While some studies find strong support for MDE null models, others find little. We test two hypotheses that might explain this variation among studies: small-ranged groups of species are less likely than large-ranged species to show mid-domain peaks i...

Spatially resolved spectroscopic data from the CIRPASS integral field unit (IFU) on Gemini are used to measure the gravitational lensing of the 4–image quasar Q2237+0305 on different size scales. A method for measuring the substructure present in the lens using observations at multiple wavelengths is demonstrated to be very effective and independent of many of the degeneracies inherent in previ...

Keywords: Multi-modal image fusion Data-specific filter Anisotropic heat kernel design Low-rank analysis Multi-scale decomposition a b s t r a c t This paper proposes a novel and robust multi-modal medical image fusion method, which is built upon a novel framework comprising multi-scale image decomposition based on anisotropic heat kernel design, scale-aware salient information extraction based...

Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) are widely used in medical outcome studies, and usually take the form of administered of self-completed questionnaires. The data that these questionnaires produce is of the type known as ordinal scaling, where magnitudes of the attribute may be ascertained. At the same time, most outcome studies rely on the calculation of means, standard deviations, change score...

The temperature and moisture data from TIROS operational vertical sounder (TOVS) are examined to obtain humidity parameters like, mid and upper tropospheric water vapour, and scale height of water vapour. Their usefulness in characterizing the onset of south-west (SW) monsoon over India is studied. The NOAA satellite data (finished product) with a resolution of 2.5 ~ lat/lon are used to obtain ...

Holocene ocean circulation is poorly understood due to sparsity of dateable marine archives with submillennial-scale resolution. Here we present a record of mid-depth water radiocarbon contents in the Northwest (NW) Pacific Ocean over the last 12.000 years, which shows remarkable millennial-scale variations relative to changes in atmospheric radiocarbon inventory. Apparent decoupling of these v...