Background: Growth hormone (GH) is known to affect insulin and glucose metabolism.  Blocking its effects in acromegalic patients improves diabetes and glucose metabolism. We aimed to determine the effect of pegvisomant, a GH receptor antagonist, on insulin resistance, endogenous glucose production (EGP) and lipolysis in insulin resistant non-diabetic men.  Methods: Four men between the ages of ...

Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to place a greater emphasis on quality teaching and student learning. However, few faculty receive any type of teacher training prior to entering the academy. As a result, faculty development is one likely solution to teacher quality issues. But faculty development is faced with serious shortcomings that impede its ability to improve teacher qualit...

In project scheduling studies, to the best of our knowledge, hyper-heuristic collaborative is first-time applied with random activity durations. A based ensemble genetic programming (HH-EGP) method proposed for solving stochastic resource constrained problem (SRCPSP) by evolving an priority rules (PRs). The approach features (1) integrating critical path into resource-based policy class generat...

In social stratification research, the most frequently used class schema are based on employment relations (EGP and ESEC). These schemes have been propelled to paradigms for research mobility educational inequalities applied in cross-national both genders. Using European Working Conditions Survey, we examine their criterion construct validity across 31 countries We investigate whether classes w...

Therapists and patients enjoy and benefit from interventions that use electronic games (EG) in health care and mental health settings, with a variety of diagnoses and therapeutic goals. We reviewed the use of electronic games designed specifically for a therapeutic purpose, electronic games for psychotherapy (EGP), also called serious games, and commercially produced games used as an adjunct to...

The strain-rate dependence of a commercial grade ABS copolymer has been analyzed in both compression and tension. By measuring two loading geometries, the hydrostatic pressure-dependence on material's deformation behavior can be established. An alternative method to determine pressure-dependence, based difference for various presented. It was shown an effective technique, thermorheologically si...

In this paper, an innovative solution to minimize noise emission, acting on the flow ripple, in a prototype External Gear Pump (EGP) is presented. Firstly, new tool capable completely simulate pump’s typologies, called EgeMATor, presented; hydraulic model, adopted for simulation, based lumped parameter method using control volume approach. Starting from pump drawing, thanks different subroutine...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...

Nowadays, as the Internet services increase faster than ever before, government systems are reinvented as E-government services. Therefore, government procurement sectors have to face challenges brought by the explosion of service information. This paper presents a novel method for E-government procurement (eGP) to search for the optimal procurement scheme (OPS). Item-based collaborative filter...