UNLABELLED Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the second most commonly performed bariatric procedure worldwide. Altered circulating gut hormones have been suggested to contribute post-operatively to appetite suppression, decreased caloric intake and weight reduction. In the present study, we report a 22-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic SG for obesity (BMI 46 kg/m(2)). Post-operatively, she rep...

In the String Percolation Model [1] the particle density is proportional, once the colour reduction factor is taken into account, to the average number of participants ρ ∝ NA; the normalized particle density at mid-rapidity is related to the gluon distribution at small Bjorken-x, ρ ∝ exp ; and the dense-dilute separation scale decreases, from energy conservation, linearly with Y , ∆0 = −αY with...

NATURE REVIEWS | NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 4 | DECEMBER2003 | 937 GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is a classical inhibitory neurotransmitter, although it has been suggested that it might mediate excitation in some adult neurons. Beg and Jorgensen, writing in Nature Neuroscience, have characterized an unusual GABA receptor that is selective for cations rather than anions, giving it an excitatory effect. Th...

Two experiments were conducted to measure the effect of level of feed intake on net amino acid absorption by portal-drained viscera of six beef heifers with catheters in a mesenteric vein, portal vein and iliac artery (Exp. 1) and to evaluate intrajugular infusion of insulin or glucose on amino acid uptake by hind half of four beef steers with catheters in posterior aorta and vena cava (Exp. 2)...

BACKGROUND Weight regain due to gastric pouch dilatation after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is seen more frequently after long-term follow-up. We studied the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic pouch resizing (LPR) for dilated gastric pouch after RYGB associated with inadequate weight loss. METHODS From 1st June 2011 to 1st September 2013, patients who underwent LPR after failed RYGB we...

osteoporosis is a common health concern in both developed and developing countries. in this study the association between anthropometric measures and osteoporosis was investigated in 3630 males and females visiting bmd clinic of shariati hospital, tehran, iran, a teaching hospital and referral center for osteoporosis affiliated to the tehran university of medical sciences. anthropometric measur...

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate sow and piglet productivity under extended photoperiod. In Exp. 1, 98 crossbred, lactating sows were housed in one of four treatments: thermoneutral air temperature (23.6 degrees C) in either (h of light:dark) 1:23 or 16:8 photoperiods, or heat stress (30.4 degrees C) in either 1:23 or 16:8 photoperiods. Heat stress reduced (P less than .05) sow feed...

AIM To study associations between health-related quality of life (HRQoL), frequency of illness, and weight in primary school children in southern Germany. METHODS Data from baseline measurements of the outcome evaluation of a teacher based health promotion programme ("Join the Healthy Boat") were analysed. Parents provided information about their children's HRQoL (KINDL(R), EQ5D-Y Visual Anal...

Data from a 2-parameter Weibull distribution (with covariates) is traditionally analyzed on a logarithmic scale to take advantage of the resulting location-scale nature of the transformed data Y1, . . . , Yn. Quantities of interest are the regression parameters β, the scale parameter σ, the p-quantile yp(u) = u′β+σ log(− log(1− p)), the tail probability p(y|u) = P (Y ≤ y|u) = 1−exp(− exp((y−u′β...

We give a simple proof of an algorithm for computing the terms of the Campbell-Hausdorff formula. 2000 AMS Subject Classification: Primary: 22E15; Secondary: 22E60 Soient G un groupe de Lie et g = T1G son algèbre de Lie, vue comme l’espace tangent à G en l’élément neutre 1. Alors il existe un voisinage V de 0 dans g et un voisinage U de 1 dans G tels que la restriction de l’application exponent...