BACKGROUND Altered levels of markers of oxidative stress, DNA repair, and telomere integrity have been detected in obese individuals and may underlie the pathogenesis of obesity-related diseases. However, whether or not such effects are reversed by intentional weight loss has not been systematically reviewed. METHODS A literature search in PubMed/Medline identified 2,388 articles of which 21 ...

Currently, there is very limited literature on the effect of long-term anticoagulants on total knee arthroplasty. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effect of warfarin and clopidogrel on the transfusion rate, intra-operative blood loss, and postoperative blood loss for total knee arthroplasty. The secondary purpose was to determine their effect on post operative wound compli...

Consider the problem of estimating the mean of a single normal random variable when the mean is known to be bounded. We establish the minimax aane estimator under zero-one loss and discuss minimal xed-length aane conndence intervals. Moreover, the minimal length of arbitrary xed-size conndence intervals is described and the maximal loss of eeciency caused by the restriction to aane estimators i...

in statistical quality control a very widely used measure is average run length (arl) which may be worked out by different methods like integral equation, approximations, and monte carlo simulations. the arl measure and the other related measures are of major significance in every type of production process. an omission in its computation (and hence its related measures such as extra quadratic ...

mutations in the gjb2 gene are the most common known cause of hereditary congenital hearing loss. rapid genomic dna extraction (rgde) method was used for genomic dna extraction. after amplification of coding region of cx26 gene with specific primers, expected pcr products with 724bp length were subjected to direct sequencing in both directions. we describe here a novel heterozygous -t to -c tra...

We consider a photonic switch based on a broadcast WDM architecture with tunable transmitters and xed frequency receivers. The switch supports variable length packets which are internally segmented and reassembled. The switch operates under a schedule that masks the transceiver tuning latency. We analyze approximately a queueing model of the switch in order to obtain the queue-length distributi...

introduction: estimation of stature is one of the most important fields in forensic medicine. also it is of particular interest to anthropologists and anatomist. our aim was to investigate the relationship between stature and the length of lower limb and foot to derive a regression formula for estimating the stature. methods: three anthropometric measurements stature, lower limb length (lll) an...

The resonance properties of a plasmonic dipole antenna array depend on its geometry and the surrounding medium. linear optical an antennas can be modified with inclusion epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) thin film. In this work, we numerically investigate roles dimensions, ENZ film thickness loss, separation between in determining response antenna–ENZ metasurface. results show that for sufficiently small...