OBJECTIVES Our previous studies demonstrated autonomic nervous system disorders and cerebral blood hypoperfusion in school refusal students with underlying emotional distress due to fear or anxiety associated with school attendance. Because severe stress is known to affect glucoregulatory metabolism, this study used the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to measure glucose metabolism in school ...

This paper proposes a rotational invariant texture feature based on the roughness property of the image for psoriasis image analysis. In this work, we have applied this feature for image classification and segmentation. The fuzzy concept is employed to overcome the imprecision of roughness. Since the psoriasis lesion is modeled by a rough surface, the feature is extended for calculating the Pso...

Metabolic syndrome is a common disorder in Taiwan. For this study 431 subjects were randomly selected from visitors to the Department of Health Management. Blood pressure, blood glucose, lipid, uric acid levels and anthropometric measurements with immunoreactive insulin (IRI) and leptin levels were all correlated. We randomly selected 431 subjects who visited the Department of Health Management...

We present data from the Floating Potential Measurement Unit (FPMU) that is deployed on the starboard truss of the International Space Station. The FPMU is a suite of instruments capable of redundant measurements of various plasma parameters. The instrument suite consists of a floating potential probe, a wide-sweeping spherical Langmuir probe, a narrow-sweeping cylindrical Langmuir probe, and a...

The interpersonal reactivity index (IRI) is a widely used personality questionnaire for measuring empathy. We investigated the psychometric properties of the German version using the partial credit model. If this model fits the data, the raw-scores are fair measures of the latent construct. Only in such a case, further analyses based on the raw-scores are accurate and valid. The results showed ...

The aim of the study was to determine immunohistochemical features lymphoid tissue mucous membrane (MM) colon in children with different course Crohn’s disease. Methods: results IHC and morphometric analyzes colonic colony disease uncomplicated complicated are presented. Results: An important role ratio distribution subpopulations T-lymphocytes CO clusters is shown, depending on phenotypic vari...

Empathy is important for good verbal navigation instructions. The present study examined the relationship between verbal route descriptions and personal characteristics of empathy using a verbal navigation task and the Japanese Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI-J). In the verbal navigation task, participants were presented a maze map and were instructed to provide verbal route instructions to...

surfaces may have the same roughness index but one surface may have the roughness on average spaced farThe measurement of the roughness of soil surfaces on centimeter ther apart on the surface. A more complete characterizascales is important to modeling local soil erodibility. An acoustic backscatter technique was examined for its ability to quantify the tion would describe not only vertical sc...

One aspect of higher order social cognition is empathy, a psychological construct comprising a cognitive (recognizing emotions) and an affective (responding to emotions) component. The complex nature of empathy complicates the accurate measurement of these components. The most widely used measure of empathy is the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). However, the factor structure of the IRI as...

Colestimide has been reported to lower blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. We investigated the mechanism of the hypoglycemic activity of colestimide by examining changes in serum cholecystokinin (CCK) and insulin concentrations before and after its 2-week oral administration. A total of seven type 2 diabetes inpatients with hypercholesterolemia receiv...