Scientific data pertaining to vitamin D supplementation during lactation are scarce. The daily recommended intake for vitamin D during lactation has been arbitrarily set at 400 IU/d (10 microg/d). This recommendation is irrelevant with respect to maintaining the nutritional vitamin D status of mothers and nursing infants, especially among darkly pigmented individuals. Our objective was to exami...

In this paper, we establish a deterministic error bound for estimating a functional of the solution of the integral transport equation via random walks that improves an earlier result of Chelson generalizing the Koksma-Hlawka inequality for nite dimensional quadrature. We solve such problems by simulation, using sequences that combine pseudorandom and quasirandom elements in the construction of...

In large multi-center studies it is important to quantify data variations due to differences between sites and over time. Here we investigate inter-site variability in signal to noise ratio (SNR), percent integral uniformity (PIU), width and height using the American College of Radiology (ACR) phantom scans from the NIHPD project. Longitudinal variations are also analyzed. All measurements are ...

We consider a new notion of circuit uniformity based on the concept of rational relations, called Rational-uniformity and denoted Rat. Our goal is to prove it is sharper than DLogTime-uniformity, the notion introduced by Barrington et al. [3], denoted DLT , that is: 1) Rational-uniformity implies DLogTime-uniformity, 2) we have NCRat NCDLT ( NCRat, 3) we have ∀k > 0, NCDLT ⊆ NC Rat , 4) Rationa...

For crop production it is desirable for the mapping between genotype and phenotype to be consistent, such that an optimized genotype produces uniform sets of individual plants. Uniformity is strongly selected in breeding programs, usually automatically, as harvest equipment eliminates severely non-uniform individuals. Uniformity is genetically controlled, is known to be increased by interplant ...

Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation is a frequent complication after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT). Method We analyzed 159 alloHCT recipients with 4409 quantitative CMV viral loads to determine pre-transplant predictors of reactivation, clinically significant infection (cs-CMVi, defined as load >1000 IU/mL), disease, kinetics spontaneous clearance CMV, and surviva...