BACKGROUND Many studies have shown that low birthweight is associated with increased risk of heart disease in adulthood. It is controversial whether this association is caused by genetic or non-genetic factors, and whether life course exposures, such as adult overweight, could modify the association. We have studied the association of head circumference at birth with later deaths from coronary ...

During the last two decades, we have witnessed an increasing research interest towards what one could call anthropocentric video analysis, namely, algorithms that aim to extract, describe, and organize information regarding the basic element of most videos: humans. This diverse group of algorithms processes videos from various sources (movies, home videos, TV programmes, surveillance videos, et...

In a randomized, head-to-head, placebo-controlled trial, we enrolled adults with obesity (body-mass index [the weight in kilograms divided by the square of height meters], 32 to 43) who did not have diabetes. After an 8-week low-calorie diet, participants were randomly assigned for 1 year one four strategies: moderate-to-vigorous–intensity exercise program plus placebo (exercise group); treatme...

Seborrheic dermatitis is an inflammatory eruption that tends to distribute on the sebaceous areas of the body and is rarely described as a paraneoplasia. Here we report a case with a responsive seborrheic dermatitis-like eruption of the head which resulted in generalized erythroderma. Intensive examinations detected concurrent malignant lymphoma.

In this article, we present a novel class of robots that are able to move by growing and building their own structure. In particular, taking inspiration by the growing abilities of plant roots, we designed and developed a plant root-like robot that creates its body through an additive manufacturing process. Each robotic root includes a tubular body, a growing head, and a sensorized tip that com...

BACKGROUND We evaluated changes in the levels of urinary 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in patients undergoing mild hypothermia therapy and compared 8-OHdG expressions in those receiving whole-body cooling or selective head cooling. MATERIAL/METHODS The subjects were 15 patients undergoing mild hypothermia therapy following resuscitation after cardiac arrest in our intensive care unit. W...

primary and widely in use computed tomography (ct) dose descriptor is a volumetric ct dose index (ctdiv) that is usually measured by a pencil ionization chamber with active length of 100mm and polymethyl methacrylate (pmma) phantom. ctdiv depends on scan parameters such as mas, kv, collimation, tube rotation time but is independent of patient’s size and shape. for the purpose of a good estimati...