The Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) is a stimulus set that provides researchers with language words have been pre-rated on bipolar scales valence, dominance, and arousal. Researchers rely these pre-ratings to ensure the they select accurately reflect affective responses elicit. Each word has valence rating reflecting degree which people experience as positive or negative, midpoint rati...

Space heating accounts for a large part of building energy consumption. Lowering the temperature set-point (Tsp) is expected to be feasible approach efficiency. In this paper, eight globally typical cities are selected, and energy-saving mechanism variation trends lowering Tsp investigated under different working conditions (climate conditions, construction completion year inner heat sources). ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the associations among the mid-pregnancy glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level, gestational diabetes (GDM), and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women without overt diabetes and with positive 50-g, 1-h glucose challenge test (GCT) results (140 mg/dL or greater). METHODS This prospective study enrolled 1,989 pregnant Taiwanese wome...

BACKGROUND With the growing prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome, reliable quantitative imaging methods for adipose tissue are required. Monogenic forms of the metabolic syndrome include Dunnigan-variety familial partial lipodystrophy subtypes 2 and 3 (FPLD2 and FPLD3), which are characterized by the loss of subcutaneous fat in the extremities. Through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) o...

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are reported at different strain rates (gamma) and thermodynamic state points for a shearing atomic fluid interacting via a Lennard-Jones potential. Our simulations are performed at the Lennard-Jones triple point, a point midway between the triple point and the critical point, and a high point closer to the critical temperature. We find that, for th...

A companion paper describes three extensions to a classification system for paediatric speech sound disorders termed the Speech Disorders Classification System (SDCS). The SDCS uses perceptual and acoustic data reduction methods to obtain information on a speaker's speech, prosody, and voice. The present paper provides reliability estimates for the two perceptual methods (narrow phonetic transc...

Submaximal treadmill exercise testing up to 80 percent of the maximal heart rate predicted for age was performed on 138 normal men and 142 normal women. Sex difference was analyzed in terms of 3 ST-T items: J, midpoint between J and the peak of T (mid-ST), and the peak of T in leads II, V4 and V. at rest and after exercise. A greater mid-ST point depression at rest, during and after exercise wa...

BACKGROUND The endurance shuttle walking test (ESWT) has shown good responsiveness to interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the minimal important difference (MID) for this test remains unknown, therefore limiting its interpretability. METHODS Patients with COPD who completed two or more ESWTs following pulmonary rehabilitation (n=132; forced exp...