The past two decades have seen a rise in the number of investigations examining the health-related effects of religiously motivated fasts. Islamic Ramadan is a 28 - 30 day fast in which food and drink are prohibited during the daylight hours. The majority of health-specific findings related to Ramadan fasting are mixed. The likely causes for these heterogeneous findings are the differences betw...

Wayne D. Hutchison, Darren J. Goossens, Andrew J. Studer and Katsuhiko Nishimura School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights NSW 2234, Aust...

Traditional capacitance extraction for VLSI interconnects usually adopts 2D scanning and table look-up methods for fast extraction at acceptable accuracy. However, for certain full-3D structures, such as partially overlapping wires and comb capacitors, 2D scanning methods fail to generate accurate results (within 5% errors). Therefore, using 3D field solvers becomes necessary despite the much s...

Traditional capacitance extraction for VLSI interconnects usually adopts 2D scanning and table look-up methods for fast extraction at acceptable accuracy. However, for certain full-3D structures, such as partially overlapping wires and comb capacitors, 2D scanning methods fail to generate accurate results (within 5% errors). Therefore, using 3D field solvers becomes necessary despite the much s...

General: This study was designed to examine the effects of a 21-day Daniel Fast on markers of oxidative stress and endothelial function following ingestion of a high-fat milkshake. The study effectively controlled for compliance, recent exercise, and other extraneous variables that could have erroneously affected the outcome measures. The primary finding stated was that such a diet can improve ...

A novel approach to temporal pattern recognition was recently introduced in the literature, called liquid computing. The model used was very complex, thus the present study uses a simplified version that is easier to understand. By exploring properties of the system with the simple setup, a better unders tanding of the complex version can be reached. A liquid computer needs a liquid memory and ...

In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence it is well-known that correlation functions of local operators in the CFT are dual to boundary correlators computed in anti-de Sitter space. But from the point of view of AdS supergravity one of the most interesting questions is how quasi-local bulk gravitational physics emerges from the CFT. The most direct way to address this question is to study c...

Richard Thaler is out with a new book, Misbehaving, tracing his career in behavioral economics. It offers an appealing combination of entertaining writing and serious discussion of the many areas he has researched. The book is a natural complement to Daniel Kahneman’s classic, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I’ll briefly compare these two books and then address what Thaler’s work says about two issues...

Imaging In article number 2100348, Anh Dinh Bui, Daniel Macdonald, Hieu T. Nguyen, and co-workers report a fast, non-invasive, camera-based method to image pseudo current density - voltage curves of various perovskite-based structures from partially finished cells with micron-scale spatial resolution. This approach is useful resolve the inhomogeneity implied open-circuit maximum fill factor acr...

Background: Improvements in body composition have been reported when men and women switch from consuming a Western Diet (WD) to purified “clean” diet (PD) known as "Daniel Fast.” While no laboratory studies determined physical performance improvements following the Daniel Fast, numerous anecdotal reports of improved capacity well-being noted. Methods: In present study, Long-Evans rats (N=28) we...