BACKGROUND Women with endometriosis are frequently misdiagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for some time before a correct diagnosis is made. Visceral hypersensitivity is a key feature in both conditions. AIMS To determine if there are distinct symptom patterns in women with IBS and endometriosis, and to determine the response of these women to a low FODMAP diet in comparison to those...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of endurance, resistance and concurrent training on plasma leptin levels of male students. for this purpose, 48 male university students (mean age 21.45 years) participated in this study. subjects were randomly assigned to three exercise groups: endurance group (n=12), resistance group (n=12) and concurrent group (n=12) and a control group (n=...

AIMS To investigate the patterns of concurrent sexual partnerships among young opiate users and sexual transmissibility of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in concurrent sexual partnerships in drug-use and sexual networks. DESIGN Cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS A total of 426 young opiate users in Yunnan, China. SETTING Young opiate users recruited from their network ties. MEASUR...

BACKGROUND Multiple concurrent sexual relationships are one of the major challenges to HIV prevention in Tanzania. This study aims to explore sexual behaviour patterns including the practice of multiple concurrent sexual partnerships in a rural Tanzanian setting. METHODS This qualitative study used focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with men and women from the community as well a...

What are the patterns that typical network attackers exhibit? For a given malicious network behaviors, are its attacks spread uniformly over time? In this work, we develop MalSpot, multi-resolution and multi-linear (Multi) network analysis system in order to discover such malicious patterns, so that we can use them later for attack detection, when attacks are concurrent with legitimate traffic....

Reengineering is to reorganize and modify existing systems to enhance them or to make them more maintainable. Reengineering is usually necessary as systems evolve due to changes in requirements, technologies, and/or personnel. Design patterns capture recurring structures and dynamics among software participants to facilitate reuse of successful designs. Design patterns are common and well studi...

Algorithms that exhibit irregular memory access patterns are known to show poor performance on multiprocessor architectures, particularly when memory access latency is variable. Many common data structures, including graphs, trees, and linked-lists, exhibit these irregular memory access patterns. While FPGA-based code accelerators have been successful on applications with regular memory access ...