BACKGROUND We aimed to determine the knowledge and attitudes of Turkish pediatricians concerning vitamin D supplement. METHODS The study was planned cross-sectional to be carried out between April-May 2015 in Turkey. A questionnaire form that determined the participants' opinions and practices concerning vitamin D supplement was completed via face-to-face interview. RESULTS A total of 107 p...

There has been little data on the prevalence of supplement use and the characteristics of the dietary supplement users in the Republic of Korea. This study presents the prevalence and the details of any dietary supplement use and the characteristics of the adults who use dietary supplements in the Republic of Korea. Between May 18 and June 16, 2006, nationwide and population-weighted personal i...

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of dietary supplement users in a large cohort of women and test the hypothesis that supplement users would be more likely to have a healthier lifestyle than non-users. DESIGN Comparison of nutrient intakes from food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) data for 8409 supplement users and 5413 non-users. Use of logistic regression modelling to determine predi...

The effectiveness of supplementation programs is affected by the ability to reduce intake variation and to meet target supplement consumption. A review was made of factors affecting variation in individual animal consumption of supplement by grazing cattle and sheep, including supplement type and feeding method, animal dominance and social interactions, and forage availability. The effects of p...

Little is known about the prevalence and motives of supplement use among elite young athletes who compete on national and international levels. Therefore, the current survey was performed to assess information regarding the past and present use of dietary supplements among 164 elite young athletes (16.6 +/- 3.0 years of age). A 5-page questionnaire was designed to assess their past and present ...

Factors influencing nutritional supplement use by high school students were assessed. Comparisons were made between various groups of sports participants and non-sports participants. The Nutritional Supplement Use and Knowledge Scale was administered to 509 students. Mean supplement use score was 10.87 (SEM = 0.50, range 0-57). Mean knowledge score was 13.56 (SEM = 0.16, range 1-21). Significan...

objective: obesity increases production of the extracellular matrix (ecm) role in pathological cardiovascular damage. regular exercise and the use of medicinal plants, particularly celery, in damage to be effective. the aim of this study is to investigate the changes in matrix metalloproteinases 2,9 (mmp 2,9) and tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (timp-1) with synchronized exercise...

In this document we provide further insights into Boosting Independent Embeddings Robustly (BIER). First, in Section 2 we describe our method for loss functions operating on triplets. Next, in Section 3 we show how our method behaves when we vary the embedding size and the number of groups. In Section 4 we summarize the effect of our boosting based training approach and our initialization appro...