Modern ideals of female attractiveness include an extremely toned and fit appearance in addition to extreme thinness. Although viewing thin models has a negative effect on women's body image, research has not tested the effect of exposure to the ultra-fit physique separate from the thin-ideal. This randomized, posttest-only experiment tested the effects of the athletic aspect of the current ide...

A large population of citizens have single-peaked preferences over a one-dimensional convex policy space with independently and identically distributed ideal points. They are partitioned into disjoint constituencies C1, . . . , Cm. Collective decisions are determined either in a directly democratic fashion and the implemented policy XD corresponds to the ideal point of the (issue-specific) popu...

OBJECTIVES Voriconazole is a second-generation triazole antifungal, approved by the FDA in 2002. Despite a decade of experience with voriconazole, there are limited published data analysing serum concentrations and toxicity in obese patients. Therefore, we evaluated voriconazole trough serum concentrations in obese and normal-weight patients in a retrospective cohort study. METHODS Voriconazo...

Background. Multiple weight loss failures among obese patients suggest the design of new therapeutic strategies. We investigated the role of 2-week course of enteral treatment with a very low-calorie protein-based formula in the management of severe obesity. Methods. We evaluated the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of 2-week continuous administration of a protein-based formula (1.2 g/kg of id...

An important predictor of historical sound change, functional load, fails to capture insights from speech perception. Building on ideal observer models of word recognition, we devise a new definition of functional load that incorporates both a priori expectedness and perceptual information. We explore this new measure with a simple model and find that it outperforms tra-

Steady-state serum concentrations of carbamazepine (CBZ) and valproic acid (VPA) were investigated in normal weight (body mass index; BMI 20 to 25), lean (smaller than 20 BMI) and moderately obese subjects (greater than 25 BMI) who received either 400 mg/day of CBZ or 800 mg/day of VPA. The CBZ serum concentration in lean subjects was significantly higher than that in normal weight subjects. Ho...

Certain non-associative algebras have important applications intheoretical Mendelian genetics. The following definitions and summary of the theory are taken from papers by Etherington [2]-[7], who initiated their study. A baric algebra is one which admits a non-trivial homomorphism, x-*a)(x), into its coefficient field. co(#) is called the weight of £. In this paper we shall only be concerned w...