BACKGROUND AND AIM Trace elements and vitamins play a vital role in human body to perform its function properly. Thalassemic patients are at risk of micronutrient deficiency. This study estimated levels of vitamins A, C, E, B12, folic acid, total homocysteine (tHcy), and methylmalonic acid (MMA) along with trace elements, zinc, copper, and selenium in Beta-thalassemia-major patients. METHODS ...

The deployment of vehicle location services generates increasingly massive trajectory data, which incurs high storage and transmission costs. A range studies target offline compression to reduce the cost. However, enable online such as real-time traffic monitoring, it is attractive also costs by being able compress streaming trajectories in real-time. Hence, we propose a framework called TRACE ...

Simulation is an indispensable tool for evaluating I/O systems, complementing benchmarking and analytical modeling. This paper presents a new algorithm, called FastSlim, to reduce the size of I/O traces. FastSlim improves performance of trace-driven simulation of I/O caching systems without compromising simulation accuracy. FastSlim is more general than existing trace reduction schemes in two w...

a host of nutrients are needed by cattle to support functions associated with life, and to grow, reproduce, and nourish their offspring (i.e., produce milk). a vast amount of resources have been expended to quantify the amounts of specific nutrients needed to perform these function so that economically efficient diets can be formulated. feeding diets that provide adequate, but not excessive, am...

BACKGROUND This work represents the first part of a progressive review of AuSPEN's 1999 Guidelines for Provision of Micronutrient Supplementation in Adult Patients receiving Parenteral Nutrition, in recognition of the developments in the literature on this topic since that time. METHODS A systematic literature review was undertaken and recommendations were made based on the available evidence...

Intelligent behavior requires transient memory, which entails the ability to retain information over short time periods. A newly-emerging hypothesis posits that endogenous persistent firing (EPF) is the neurophysiological foundation for aspects or types of transient memory. EPF is enabled by the activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) and is triggered by suprathreshold stimula...

the concentration contents of ca, mg, sr and zn in porites corals from pulau langkawi, pulau redang and pulau tioman were presented. the corals were cleaned and the growth rate examined visually. the growth rate of porites in malaysia waters was between 5 to 25 mm yr-1 and each band was selected for determining the metal contents using the atomic absorption spectrophotometer (aas). the mean val...

Multi-task learning (MTL) seeks to improve the generalization performance by sharing information among multiple tasks. Many existing MTL approaches aim to learn the lowrank structure on the weight matrix, which stores the model parameters of all tasks, to achieve task sharing, and as a consequence the trace norm regularization is widely used in the MTL literature. A major limitation of these ap...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with panic disorder perceive panic attacks as unpredictable. Because predictability is fundamental to Pavlovian conditioning, failure to predict panic attacks could be due to a basic deficit in conditioning. The present study examined trace eyeblink conditioning in order to test the hypothesis that individuals with panic disorder are impaired in associative learning tasks ...