BACKGROUND The respiratory quotient (RQ), defined as the ratio of carbon dioxide exhaled to oxygen uptake, reflects substrate utilization when energy is expended. Fat and alcohol have RQ values of approximately 0.7, compared with 1.0 for carbohydrate, and approximately 0.8 for protein. Here, the association between RQ and postmenopausal breast cancer risk is studied. METHODS Paired RQ measure...

BACKGROUND As life expectancy increases, dementia incidence will also increase, creating a greater need for physicians well-trained to provide integrated geriatric care. However, research suggests medical students have limited knowledge or interest in pursuing geriatric or dementia care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the PAIRS Program and its effectiveness in enhancing medical educat...

We sought to characterize interchangeability and agreement between cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and digital stereoscopic kV x-ray (KVX) acquisition, two methods of isocenter positional verification currently used for IGRT of head and neck cancers (HNC). A cohort of 33 patients were near-simultaneously imaged by in-room KVX and CBCT. KVX and CBCT shifts were suggested using manufacturer ...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we present a novel approach for image selective smoothing by the evolution of two paired nonlinear‎ ‎partial differential equations‎. ‎The distribution coefficient in de-noising equation controls the speed of distribution‎, ‎and is‎ ‎determined by the edge-strength function‎. ‎In the previous works‎, ‎the edge-strength function depends on isotropic‎ ‎smoothing of the image‎...

In this paper, we continue the study of the domination game in graphs introduced by Bre{v{s}}ar, Klav{v{z}}ar, and Rall. We study the paired-domination version of the domination game which adds a matching dimension to the game. This game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, named Dominator and Pairer. They alternately take turns choosing vertices of $G$ such that each vertex chosen by Domin...

CONTEXT One of the main difficulties in adequately treating the pain of neonatal patients is the scarcity of validated pain evaluation methods for this population. OBJECTIVE To analyze the reliability of two behavioral pain scales in neonates. TYPE OF STUDY Cross-sectional. SETTING University hospital neonatal intensive care unit. PARTICIPANTS 22 preterm neonates were studied, with gest...

In consumer research, the role of the paired preference test appears to be sacrosanct, whether deserved or not. Paired preference simply means putting one product up against another, and instructing the respondent to indicate which one the respondent prefers. The ‘preference’ measure does not show how much one product is liked (or how much more one product is liked versus another). Rather, the ...

Minshew and Goldstein (1998) postulated that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a disorder of complex information processing. The current study was designed to investigate this hypothesis. Participants with and without ASD completed two scene perception tasks: a simple "spot the difference" task, where they had to say which one of a pair of pictures had a detail missing, and a complex "which one...

The loss and degradation of mangrove forests have triggered global restoration efforts to support biodiversity ecosystem services, including fish stock enhancement. As accelerates, it is important evaluate outcomes for species that play functional roles in ecosystems yet this remains a clear knowledge gap. There remarkably little information, example, about how use mangroves varies as restored ...

Hybridity in immersive technologies has not been studied for factors that are likely to influence engagement. An noticeable factor is the spatial enclosure defines where users meet. This involves a mutual object of interest, contents may generate around object, and proximity between users. study examines these factors, namely how interactivity, user-generated (UGC) avatar We designed Hybrid Vir...