OBJECTIVE To determine whether some participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program were more or less likely to benefit from metformin or a structured lifestyle modification program. DESIGN Post hoc analysis of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a randomized controlled trial. SETTING Ambulatory care patients. PARTICIPANTS 3060 people without diabetes but with evidence of impaired glucose me...

Franziska Lys, Northwestern University In this study, I investigate the use and integration of iPads in an advanced German conversation class. In particular, I am interested in analyzing how students learn with this new technology and how it affects the development of their oral proficiency level. Overall, my results suggest that iPads are well suited to practice listening and speaking proficie...

because of its widespread needs in different scientific fields, statistics and probability theory have gained great importance and medical students as well as students of other medically related disciplines including nursing need to use them especially in their research projects in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate schools. this article deals with the question of finding the most effecti...

Introduction: Previous studies describe the evolution of impact generated vapor plumes from above [1]. Here, a new approach is tested whereby early-time self-luminous ejecta products are examined using quarter-space experiments with spectral measurements. At early times, the forming cavity is on the order of centimeters. Hence, the pointing accuracy and small detection regions are necessary. Th...

This paper presents a compact bandpass filter with stopband and high attenuation by using multilayer folded broadside-coupled quarter-wavelength stripline resonators in a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate. The proposed bandpass filter centered at 1.1 GHz with a fractional bandwith of 4.5 % shows the first spurious frequency at 3.8 times the center frequency. In comparison to the...

background: osteoporosis is a serious public health. since the majority of bone mass occurs during adolescence, primary prevention  is important. probably mother’s participation in health education interventions leads to promote health behaviors in children. to assess a lifestyle modifcation intervention focused on mothers and students has an impact on osteoporosis preventive  behaviors in adol...

In these lecture notes we describe recent progress in our understanding of attractor mechanism and entropy of extremal black holes based on the entropy function formalism. We also describe precise computation of the microscopic degeneracy of a class of quarter BPS dyons in N = 4 supersymmetric string theories, and compare the statistical entropy of these dyons, expanded in inverse powers of ele...