BACKGROUND The main source of carbohydrate in the Korean diet is rice, which is usually served in a rice bowl. This study investigated the impact of a meal plan using smaller rice bowls on dietary energy intake and macronutrient composition in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS A total of 67 women with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in our study. We divided the...

The imperative to address the national obesity epidemic has stimulated efforts to develop accurate dietary assessment methods suitable for large-scale applications. This study evaluated the performance of the USDA Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM), the computerized dietary recall designed for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dietary survey, and 2 epidemiological methods ...

T husday, M ay 4, 2017 without complications, 40.2% underwent elective revisions, with significant differences noted by reconstructive modality (p<0.001) (min. DTI 25%, max. LD 59%). The average number of elective revisions also differed by modality (p<0.001)(min. TE 0.7 (SD 1.3), max. fTRAM/DIEP/SIEA 1.3 (SD1.5)). Average total number of procedures in patients without complications at two year...

Premodern Chinese texts pose problems that are difficult to accommodate with the current TEI text model, which bases the main hierarchy of a text on its structural content, rather than on a hierarchy that models the pages, lines and character positions. For the TEI, this is a sensible decision and has led to the abolishment of elements like and in the latest release of the Guideli...

In several on-going projects we were faced with the dilemma of how to reconcile our goal of delivering standardly encoded digital editions, yet have the actual editing and annotation performed by researchers and students who had no knowledge of XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI), and, for the most part, no great interest in learning them. The developed solution consists of al...

BACKGROUND The right ventricular (RV) Tei index (TX) has a significant correlation with the severity of pulmonary hypertension. However, the role of RV dysfunction in dogs with myxomatous mitral valvular heart disease (MMVD) has not been addressed. OBJECTIVES To investigate the correlation between right ventricular Tei-index (RVTX) and the prognosis for dogs with MMVD. ANIMALS Thirty client...

AIM The aim of the study was to determine if the tissue Doppler imaging (TDI)-derived myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction (IVA) of tricuspid lateral annulus could be used in early detection of RV systolic dysfunction in patients with mitral stenosis (MS), before the clinical signs of systemic venous congestion occur. METHODS One hundred and twelve patients with rheumatic MS ...

Abstract Due to the spread of Covid-19, universities had move their courses online abruptly. This paper explores its impact on 510 European tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ classroom emotions and analyses possible links trait emotional intelligence (TEI) learner autonomy. Statistical data gathered with web survey revealed that students rated ‘in-person’ classes signi...

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Accumulating evidence suggests that the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system may be involved in the progression of diabetic nephropathy. Chymase is a potent local angiotensin II-forming enzyme in several species, including humans and hamsters. However, the pathophysiological role of chymase is not fully understood. Here, we report a causal role of chymase in diabetic nephropathy and the therapeu...