Research indicates that people with body image dissatisfaction (BID) are not benefited from exercising in group contexts. The current study tested whether exercise video games (exergames) can provide unique opportunities for exercise interventions through the use of avatars. An experiment was conducted using a 2 (BID: High vs. Low) 2 (Exercise context: Solitary vs. Group) between-subjects desig...

Methods single blind randomized clinical trial; asthmatic children with persistent symptoms undergoing treatment with fluticasone 100 mg bid and b2 agonist as required were studied. Group A (23 males / 17 females, aged 11.5±1.8 years) received fluticasone 200mg bid, and group B (21 males / 19 females, aged 11.5±1.8 years) clarithromycine 15 mg/kg bid, in addition to fluticasone 100 mg bid for 8...

M auctions involve selling several distinct items simultaneously, where bidders can bid on the whole or any part of the lot. Such auctions are referred to as combinatorial auctions. Examples of such auctions include truck delivery routes, industrial procurement, and FCC spectrum. Determining winners in such auctions is an NP-hard problem, and significant research is being conducted in this area...

The BH3 interacting-domain death agonist (BID) is a pro-apoptotic protein involved in death receptor-induced and mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. Recently, it has also been suggested that BID is involved in the regulation of inflammatory responses in the central nervous system. We found that BID deficiency protected organotypic hippocampal slice cultures in vitro from neuronal injury induced by...

BACKGROUND This randomised, double-blind, four-way, crossover, Phase II study compared the 24-h forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) profile of alternative dosing frequencies of two total daily doses of olodaterol (5 and 10 μg) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS Patients received olodaterol 2 μg twice daily (BID), 5 μg BID, 5 μg once daily (QD) and 10 μg ...

This note addresses scenarios of buyers purchasing rate along paths in a nonhierarchical communication network. A sum bid game is proposed in which each buyer submits a bid, also equal to a payment, and the network allocates rate in a weighted proportionally fair fashion, with the bids as the weights. This is in contrast to an itemized bid game, considered recently by Johari and Tsitsiklis, und...

The success of online auctions has given buyers access to greater product diversity with potentially lower prices. It has provided sellers with access to large numbers of potential buyers and reduced transaction costs by enabling auctions to take place without regard to time or place. However it is difficult to spend more time period with system and closely monitor the auction until auction par...

We study the monotonicity of the equilibrium bid with respect to the number of bidders n in affiliated private-value models of first-price sealed-bid auctions and prove the existence of a large class of such models in which the equilibrium bid function is not increasing in n. We moreover decompose the effect of a change in n on the bid level into a competition effect and an affiliation effect. ...