Consumption of the MCTD also resulted in significant elevation of blood β-hydroxybutyrate concentrations in comparison with placebo diet (0·071 (SD 0·035) v. 0·053 (SD 0·028) mmol/l, P = 0·028).’ Results ‘There was a significant increase in blood concentrations of BHB when dogs were fed the MCTD (0·071 (SD 0·035) mmol/l) in comparison with the placebo diet (0·053 (SD 0·028) mmol/l, P = 0·028).’...

We consider some subsets of the Euclidean plane R2, having small linear sections (in all directions), and investigate those sets from the point of view of measurability with respect to certain invariant extensions of the classical Lebesgue measure on R2. Many examples of paradoxical sets in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space, having small sections by hyperplanes in this space, are known in th...

PURPOSE Tonometry is widely used as the main screening tool supporting glaucoma diagnosis. Still, its accuracy could be improved if full knowledge about the variation of the corneal biomechanical properties was available. In this study, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) speckle statistics are used to infer the organisation of the corneal micro-structure and hence, to analyse its influence on i...

Soil phosphorus (P) release capability could be assessed through the degree of P saturation (DPS). Our main objective was to determine DPS and, hence, P threshold DPS values of an Ultisol treated with triple superphosphate (TSP), Gafsa phosphate rocks (GPR), or Christmas Island phosphate rocks (CIPR), plus or minus manure. P release was determined by the iron oxide-impregnated paper strip (stri...

Heterogeneous network computing enables the development of a single complex application using a distributed network of possibly dissimilar machines. While heterogeneous networks promise cost-eeective compute cycles, almost no software is available to aid in the design and implementation of their applications. In this paper, we couple the Zoom representation, designed to facilitate development o...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of an urgent care telephone service NHS 111 on population perceptions of urgent care. DESIGN Controlled before and after population survey, using quota sampling to identify 2000 respondents reflective of the age/sex profile of the general population. SETTING England. 4 areas where NHS 111 was introduced, and 3 control areas where NHS 111 had yet to be introdu...