This randomized controlled trial investigated whether adding the psychodynamically based body-oriented psychotherapy "Functional Relaxation" (FR) to psychoeducation (PE) is more effective than PE alone to reduce stress and stress-associated complaints. Eighty-one participants with elevated stress-levels, ≥50 points on the global scale of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ), received either...

Food restriction (FR) is the only known intervention capable of increasing mammalian life span. It not only increases longevity, but reduces the incidence of a broad spectrum of age-related pathologies, including cardiomyopathy, and retards the physiological decline associated with aging. Previous work from this laboratory has shown that long-term FR affects the contractile machinery of the hea...

Maternal undernutrition in pregnancy is associated with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). With enhanced nutrient support, IUGR newborns may demonstrate a rapid catch-up growth and, paradoxically, the development of obesity in adult offspring. As hypothalamic control of appetite is likely set during the fetal or neonatal period, nutrient stress and perhaps nutrient enhancement during these...

Maxime Lenormand, ∗ Thomas Louail, 3 Marc Barthelemy, 5 and José J. Ramasco Irstea, UMR TETIS, 500 rue François Breton, FR-34093 Montpellier, France Instituto de F́ısica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus UIB, ES-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain CNRS, UMR 8504 Géographie-Cités, 13 rue du four, FR-75006 Paris, France Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-CNRS (URA 2306), F...

The vulnerability of deep-learning based face-recognition (FR) methods, to presentation attacks (PA) is studied in this paper. Recently proposed FR methods based on deep neural networks (DNN) have been shown to outperform most other methods by a significant margin. In a trustworthy face-verification system, however, maximizing recognition-performance alone is not sufficient – the system should ...

A series of flame-retardant nanocomposites were established based on compounding of natural rubber (NR) and dendrimer modified flame-retardant organic montmorillonite (FR-DOMt). The merits of these nanocomposites were focused on their better mechanical and flame-retardant properties. X-ray diffractometer (XRD) together with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy...

In the Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs), encoded fraction of information is stored in the distributed fashion on different chunk servers. Recently a new paradigm of Fractional Repetition (FR) codes have been introduced, in which, encoded data information is stored on distributed servers, where encoding is done using a Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) code and a repetition code. In this work, ...

Product definition has been recognized as one of the deciding factors in designing a product for success in the market-place. This paper introduces an approach to product definition by evolving from similar existing products. Our methodology is derived from recognizing functional requirement (FR) patterns from past design efforts including FR topology, FR classification and FR templates. A two-...

The radial artery has been increasingly used for its favorable safety profile. However, no conclusive data are available on the optimal sheath size. In particular, it is seemingly difficult to weight both advantages and disadvantages of narrower versus larger sheaths size. Despite several studies were performed to compare the use of 6-Fr to the smaller 5-Fr sheaths, these were mostly small, sin...