Introduction Obesity is known to be a major health risk. The data here arise from a study which aimed to investigate whether or not a new drug, used as part of a regime of diet, exercise and drug treatment, could assist in weight reduction for obese individuals. Patients taking part in the study were healthy adults (aged 18 to 65 years) and were between 30% and 80% above their ideal body weight...

Medical school does not prepare trainees for the reality of the practice of medicine, where book knowledge takes second place to the more pragmatic skills of time management, conflict resolution, and damage control. Junior residents, overwhelmed by the demands of daily floor work, can easily lose sight of the reasons that they went into medicine to begin with. Taken out of the context of the ho...

Today there is a relatively large body of work on automatic acquisition of lexicosyntactical preferences (subcategorization) from corpora. Various techniques have been developed that not only produce machinereadable subcategorization dictionaries but also they are capable of weighing the various subcategorization frames probabilistically. Clearly there should be a potential to use such weighted...

An electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) was connected with a Virtual Reality system in order to control a smart home application. Therefore special control masks were developed which allowed using the P300 component of the EEG as input signal for the BCI system. Control commands for switching TV channels, for opening and closing doors and windows, for navigation and c...

T here is significant debate regarding the clinical utility of the metabolic syndrome.1–3 Limited data suggest that the syndrome is not associated with cardio­ vascular disease above and beyond its individual components, or above and beyond current risk pre­ diction schemes such as the Framingham Risk Score, though additional data are needed in large populations to clarify these points.1 Howeve...

BACKGROUND Caregivers are responsible for the home care of family members with mental-health disorders often experience changes in their life that can generate stress and burden. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with the burden of caregivers of family members with mental disorders. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted with a non-probability sample of family...

Abstract - In early 2020 various parts of the world announced a pandemic status due to Covid-19 outbreak caused by Corona virus. Indonesia is one countries affected this epidemic. The public urged implement health procedures such as taking vitamins, basking in sun, doing physical distancing, staying at home, working from Study Home and so forth. Almost all sectors were paralyzed minimize spread...