BACKGROUND The American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (AHA/NHLBI), revising the National Cholesterol Evaluation Program for Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATP III), and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) have proposed definitions of metabolic syndrome that take into account waist circumference thresholds according to ethnicity. In this study we estimated ...

With the increased popularity of replica-based services in distributed systems such as the Grid, consistency control among replicas becomes more and more important. To this end, IDF (Inconsistency Detection Framework), a two-layered overlay-based architecture, has been proposed as a new way to solve this problem—instead of enforcing a predefined protocol, IDF detects inconsistency in a timely m...

The tf-idf is an algorithm which is generally used where massive data processing is done. Tf-idf is the weight given to a particular term within a document and it is proportional to the importance of the term. This paper aims to use the idea behind the tf-idf algorithm to design the df-icf algorithm which finds the importance of a particular document within the given corpus. General Terms DF-IC...

Objectives of this review are to define criteria for evaluating insoluble dietary fiber (IDF) methods, discuss their relevance in meeting the nutritional needs of ruminants and herbivores, describe problems with empirical IDF methods, and assess their relative merits. The challenge for the researcher, nutritionist, and analyst is to select fiber methods that are relevant and reproducible. Witho...

INTRODUCTION Full text searching over a database of moderate size often uses the inverse document frequency, idf = log(N/df), as a component in term weighting functions used for document indexing and retrieval. However, in very large databases (e.g. internet search engines), there is the potential that the collection size (N) could dominate the idf value, decreasing the usefulness of idf as a t...

idf 0.0484 0.0534 0.0565 0.055 0.0546 0.0551 0.0549 0.0549 0.0549 0.0549 log(tf)idf 0.0326 0.0531 0.0583 0.0569 0.0556 0.0551 0.0549 0.0549 0.0549 0.0549 tf 0.0011 0.0048 0.013 0.0247 0.0378 0.0439 0.0495 0.0534 0.0559 0.0584 Claims idf 0.0359 0.0478 0.0498 0.0533 0.0569 0.0619 0.0636 0.06 0.0583 0.0593 log(tf)idf 0.0515 0.064 0.0675 0.0668 0.0641 0.0629 0.0607 0.0606 0.0563 0.0566 tf 0.0012 0....

R ecently, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has formulated a new worldwide definition for the metabolic syndrome (1). In contrast to the previous World Health Organization (WHO) and National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) criteria, abdominal obesity was considered as a prerequisite (2,3). Population-based epidemiological data on the metabolic syndrome in Europe are rare, and th...

The flavonoid pigment pathway in plants has been used as a model system for studying gene regulatory mechanisms. C2-Idf is a stable dominant mutation of the chalcone synthase gene, c2, which encodes the first dedicated enzyme in this biosynthetic pathway of maize. Homozygous C2-Idf plants show no pigmentation. This allele also inhibits expression of functional C2 alleles in heterozygotes, produ...