BACKGROUND Nutrition support for critically ill patients supplemented with additional modular protein may promote skeletal muscle protein anabolism in addition to counteracting acute nitrogen loss. The present study was designed to investigate whether the essential amino acid (EAA) enriched high-protein enteral nutrition (EN) modulates the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) system and activat...

We determined whether persistent nausea and vomiting (N/V) symptoms following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is due to elevated systemic glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and leptin in female non-diabetic subjects. Subjects with N/V post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery had significantly elevated fasting GLP-1 levels compared to that with post-operative asymptomatic subjects and to morbi...

We address a mathematical and physical status of exotic (like e.g. fractal) solutions of the Schrödinger equation. To this end, we extend the formal meaning of the Schrödinger evolution of wave packets beyond the domain of the Hamiltonian. The dynamical importance of the finite mean energy condition is elucidated. PACS numbers: 03.65 Pb 1 Motivation For a simple Hamiltonian system whose energy ...

According to X-ray single-crystal structure analysis, {[Cu(II)(en)2]2[Cu(I)2(CN)6]}[Cu(II)(en)2]2[Cu(I)(CN)3]2.2H2O contains copper in four different coordination environments: trigonal planar, square planar, square pyramidal and tetrahedral. The different coordination geometries of copper were investigated by quantum chemical calculations of model compounds, thus allowing to tentatively assign...

Porous CdSe nanorods having a novel flute-like morphology have been prepared facilely via the hydrothermal treatment of CdSe·(en)0.5 (en = ethylenediamine) nanorods as sacrificial templates. During the hydrothermal process, various crystalline imperfections such as stacking faults and twinning planes appear due to lattice mismatches between orthorhombic CdSe·(en)0.5 and hexagonal wurtzite porou...

Exaggerated GLP-1 and PYY secretion is thought to be a major mechanism in the reduced food intake and body weight after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Here, we use complementary pharmacological and genetic loss-of-function approaches to test the role of increased signaling by these gut hormones in high-fat diet-induced obese rodents. Chronic brain infusion of a supramaximal dose of the selec...

The Pieri rule expresses the product of a Schur function and a single row Schur function in terms of Schur functions. We extend the classical Pieri rule by expressing the product of a skew Schur function and a single row Schur function in terms of skew Schur functions. Like the classical rule, our rule involves simple additions of boxes to the original skew shape. Our proof is purely combinator...

In this paper it is argued that virtual reality represents a locus where general psychological processes can be investigated thanks to the fact that it epitomizes a characteristic that is proper to every human endeavor, namely the construction of reality. This presupposition is taken from Cultural Psychology and it insistence on cultural artifacts as key elements in human development. A brief p...

— Recently we considered a heterogeneous questionnaire and characterized an average charge of order t by using the additivity property. Wefound that it is bounded from below by RényVs Entropy of order a, where a = 1/(1 +1), In this paper we have extended this workfor the more gênerai case vohen the order ofboth, the average charge and the bound, is same i. e. equal to a, This gives a new measur...