BACKGROUND The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the association between lowered endothelial function measured by peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT) and cardio-metabolic risk factors. The study population consisted of Finnish municipal workers who were at risk of diabetes or cardiovascular disease and who had expressed a need to change their health behaviour. METHODS A total...

an important factor in the growth medium of plants and chemical plants. native substrates can be used to improve plant performance. to evaluate the effect of growth medium on the herb f. benjamina experimental design was completely randomized with eight treatments and four replications were carried out in the research greenhouse of islamic azad university of jiroft. f. benjamina  plants from ve...

A multitrait selection index (I T ) for Zimbabwean Jersey cattle was constructed. The breeding objective was defined in terms of production and functionality traits. The production component of the index included milk yield (M), butterfat yield (F), protein yield (P), butterfat percent (F%), and protein percent (P%), while the functional component included the somatic cell count (SCC). The inde...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V(G) and edge set E(G), and let A be an abelian group. A labeling f : V(G) ....... A induces a edge labeling r : E{G) ....... A defined by r(xy) = f(x) + f(y) for each xy E E. For each i E A, let vJ(i) card{v E V(G) : f(v) i} and eJ(i) card{e E E(G) : r(e) i}. Let c(J) {leJ(i) eJ(j)1 : = = (i,j) E A x A}. A labeling f of a graph G is said to be A-friendly if IVJ...

We consider a map f from a locally compact metric space to itself, and use the discrete Conley index to study the difference between the local dynamics of f and f. In particular, we present a method, based on work by Mischaikow, Szymczak, et al., for detecting positive entropy symbolic dynamics by measuring the difference between Conley indices for f and f.

Let k be a field of characteristic zero. F=X+H polynomial map from kn to kn, where X is the identity and H has only degree two terms higher. We say that Jacobian matrix JH strongly nilpotent with index p if for all X(1),…,X(p)∈kn we haveJH(X(1))…JH(X(p))=0. Every F this form automorphism, i.e. there second F−1 such F∘F−1=F−1∘F=X. prove inverse satisfiesdeg⁡(F−1)≤deg⁡(F)p−1, improving in case on...

Let R be a Krull ring with quotient field K and a1, . . . , an in R. If and only if the ai are pairwise incongruent mod every height 1 prime ideal of infinite index in R does there exist for all values b1, . . . , bn in R an interpolating integer-valued polynomial, i.e., an f ∈ K[x] with f(ai) = bi and f(R) ⊆ R. If S is an infinite subring of a discrete valuation ring Rv with quotient field K a...

We prove Hoffmann’s conjecture determining the possible values of the first Witt index of anisotropic quadratic forms of any given dimension. The proof makes use of the Steenrod type operations on the modulo 2 Chow groups constructed by P. Brosnan. Let F be a field of characteristic 6= 2. For an anisotropic quadratic form φ over F with dim(φ) ≥ 2, the first Witt index i1(φ) is the Witt index (i...

We establish Liouville-type theorems for stable and finite Morse index weak solutions of −∆pu = f(x)F (u) in R . For a general non-linearity F ∈ C(R) and f(x) = |x|, we prove such theorems in dimensions N ≤ 4(p+α) p−1 +p, for bounded radial stable solutions. Then, we give some point-wise estimates for not necessarily bounded solutions. Also, similar theorems will be proved for both radial finit...

In this paper we introduce a k-anonymous vector space model, which can be used as an index of a set of confidential documents. This model allows to index, for example, encrypted data. New documents can be added or removed while maintaining the k-anonymity property of the vector space. URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54568-9_23 [10] Source URL: https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/node/54461 Link...