Objectives. In traditional Chinese medicine, Yu-Zhi (YZ, indicating stasis and stagnation) constitution describes a body that tends to express abnormal circulatory conditions. This study identified the linkage between YZ constitution and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods. Patients over 20 years of age who had had type 2 diabetes for 5 years or longer we...

II. CONSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .............................................................................................. 296 A. Treaty vs. Constitution .................................................................................................... 297 B. Formal vs. Material Constitution ................................

In short then, this is a book of considerable value, most obviously to psychologists, obstetricians, pediatricians and others who may be called upon to counsel prospective parents, but the enormous range of disorders influenced by the genetic constitution of the host makes it imperative that this book be read as a text in basic medical science. It is encouraging to know that a comprehensive sur...

A longitudinal model based on the simplex model is presented to analyze simultaneously means and covariance structure using univariate longitudinal twin data. The objective of the model is to decompose the mean trend into components which can be attributed to those genetic and environmental factors which give rise to phenotypic individual differences and a component of unknown constitution whic...

Long development times and high costs prevent robots from being practical for use in many important field missions. Here a modular design approach is proposed to produce a rapidly deployable low cost field robotic system. An inventory of components such as actuated joints, links, power supplies, and software modules are assembled to produce a field robotic system for a specified task. The propo...

Human phenotypes – i.e. our characteristics, conditions and diseases – are not merely a product of our genetic constitution, but rather arise out of an intricate system of interactions between the proteins and other molecules in our cells. 1 This fact has inspired a huge effort to document and understand the network of those protein-protein interactions which we’ll refer to collectively as the ...

(Preliminary and incomplete) 2 " If at the level of center-state relations the constitution gave us democracy, at the level of state-panchayat relations the constitution gave us bureaucracy. "

It is known that external environmental or internal physiologic factors interact with an individual’s genetic constitution to determine risk for depression throughout life. This can be possible through epigenetic mechanisms that lead to changes in gene expression – with transgenerational abilities that do not involve a change in the DNA sequence. Here we briefly summarize the link between depre...

1. Forearm bone density may be measured by single photon and dual photon absorptometry to determine bone density and how much bone loss has occurred. If a reading is below the lower normal limit it can be predicted that this woman has a 50% chance of developing osteoporosis in 10 years. Which 50% she falls into may be determined by whether or not she will lose calcium excessively and this will ...