conclusions elevated serum pth level was the predictive factor for nash in morbidly obese patients. also, we reported elevated serum liver enzymes, high serum pth levels and older age as predictors of nash in patients seeking obesity surgical treatments. results forty-six patients (34 women, aged 36.5 ± 10.6 years) were analyzed. the mean levels of liver enzymes were significantly higher in the...

background nafld/nash is a manifestation of metabolic syndrome and is associated with obesity/overweight. not all obese/overweight individuals develop nash. gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) is considered a gastrointestinal manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and is associated with obesity/overweight. again not all obese/overweight individuals develop gerd. recent data show associatio...

Objective(s):Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is an important component of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum, which progresses to the end stage liver disease, if not diagnosed and treated properly. The disproportionate production of pro- and anti-inflammatory adipokines secreted from fat contributes to the pathogenesis of NASH. In this study, the comparative effect of piog...

Background: Pro-inflammatory cytokines are associated with systemic inflammatory responses. Objective: To investigate the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1b, IL-6, and TNF-a) in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) compared to healthy individuals. Methods: This case-control study was c...

Rainfall–runoff modeling is a complex hydrological issue that still has room for improvement. This study developed coupled bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) with sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) learning (BiLSTM-Seq2seq) model to simulate multi-step-ahead runoff flood events. The LSTM Seq2Seq (LSTM-Seq2Seq) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) was set as benchmarks. results show that: (1) ro...

This note analyzes a two-player all-pay auction with incomplete information. More precisely, one bidder is uncertain whether his rival has a head start, i.e., an initial advantage in the auction. The game has a unique Bayesian Nash equilibrium outcome whose shape depends on the expected head start. In equilibrium, the potentially stronger player generates an informational rent if and only if he...

The behaviour of firms on an oligopolistic market is usually modeled via the CournotNash equilibrium concept ([13, 18]). In fact, it is the classical Nash equilibrium, where each player (firm) maximizes its profit subject to production constraints. Assuming that one from the firms has a temporal advantage over the others, this firm can increase its profit by replacing a Cournot-Nash strategy by...

The importance of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) was first recognized formally at a National Institutes of Health Consensus Symposium in December 1998. Since then, there has been a rapid growth of knowledge regarding nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in children. The greatest advances have been made in the realms of awareness, diagnosis, and understanding of associated comorbidities...

In an auction market where the price of each selling item is restricted to an admissible interval (price rigidities), a Walrasian equilibrium usually fails to exist. Dreze (1975) introduced a variant concept of Walrasian equilibrium based on rationing systems, named constrained Walrasian equilibrium, for modelling an economy with price rigidities. Talman and Yang (2008) further refined the conc...

Typical voting rules do not work well in settings with many candidates. If there are just several hundred candidates, then even a simple task such as choosing a top candidate becomes impractical. Motivated by the hope of developing group consensus mechanisms over the internet, where the numbers of candidates could easily number in the thousands, we study an urn-based voting rule where each part...