Several metabolic derangements, including enhanced protein catabolism, have been suggested to be associated with increased circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT). Such conditions, therefore, might lead to an increase in energy expenditure. The present study examined by indirect calorimetry the resting energy expenditure (REE) of 15 hemodialysi...

BACKGROUND Elevated resting energy expenditure (REE) may contribute to weight loss and symptom burden in cancer patients. AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the velocity of weight loss, symptom burden (fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and anorexia-combined score as measured by the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Score), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and survival among cancer patients ref...

BACKGROUND Several studies have reported increased resting energy expenditure (REE) in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, limited data exist on REE in HIV-infected women and the effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on REE in this population. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare REE in healthy controls to adult HIV-infected women classified in three groups...

Rainwater and snow collected from three different sites in France (Vosges Mountains, French Alps and Strasbourg) show more or less similar shapes of their REE distribution patterns. Rainwater from Strasbourg is the most REE enriched sample, whereas precipitations from the two mountainous, less polluted catchments are less REE enriched and have concentrations close to seawater. They are all stro...

BACKGROUND In underweight elders, resting energy expenditure (REE) and its relationship with fat-free mass (FFM) could be modified by sarcopenia, physical activity, and functional limitation. The aims of this study were to investigate REE and its relationship with quantity and metabolic activity of FFM and to evaluate the influence of functional status on REE in underweight elderly subjects. ...

El Sela shear zone occurs in the younger granite rock of Gabal El Sela area, south Eastern Desert, Egypt near the Sudan Frontier. It comprises lines-arranged intrusions trending ENE-WSW and extend for about 1.5 km in length and reach up to 40 meters in width. These lines-arranged intrusions include multi-phase quartz veins, altered microgranite and altered basic dykes. These dykes hosting or ac...

We coordinatize the Moufang generalized octagons arising from the Ree groups of type 2 F4. In this way, we obtain a very concrete and explicit description of these octagons. We use this to prove some results on suboctagons, generalized homologies, Suzuki-Tits ovoids and groups of projectivities of the Ree octagons. All our results hold for arbitrary Ree octagons, finite or not.

BACKGROUND An elevated resting energy expenditure (REE) commonly occurs in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an increased REE on total daily energy expenditure (TDE) in 20 patients with COPD (19 men) with mean (SD) forced expiratory volume in one second of 37 (14)% predicted. METHODS TDE was measured over a two week ...

The Evje-Iveland pegmatite field in Norway contains pegmatites that are known for their rare scandium mineralization. petrogenesis of these has been debated the literature nearly a century. Hypotheses origin pegmatite-forming melt have included either anatexis host amphibolite vapor-absent conditions, wherein is scavenged from amphibolite; or magmatic differentiation, concentrated through proce...

A low-blank, high sensitivity isotope dilution, ICP-MS analytical technique has been used to obtain REE abundance data from single conodont elements weighing as little as 5 mg. Sr isotopes can also be measured from the column eluants enabling Sr isotope ratios and REE abundance to be determined from the same dissolution. Results are comparable to published analyses comprising tens to hundreds o...