Appetite controlling has been an main strategy for regulating food intake and energy balance in obesity treatment. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of drinking tea of the medicinal herbs, fennel and fenugreek, on the subjective appetite in overweight Korean women. The study was conducted using a placebo-controlled, single-blinded, randomized, and 3-way crossover design. Nine hea...

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Studies of the immunological environment in the female genital tract (FGT) are critical for the development of vaccines or microbicides to halt the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Challenges arise due to the difficulties of sampling from this site, and the majority of studies have been conducted utilising peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Identifying functional differences between ...

With aspirated specimens from clinical infections, we evaluated the recovery of anaerobic, aerobic, and facultative bacteria in three widely used transport systems: (i) aspirated fluid in a gassed-out tube (FGT), (ii) swab in modified Cary and Blair transport medium (SCB), and (iii) swab in a gassed-out tube (SGT). Transport tubes were held at 25 degrees C and semiquantitatively sampled at 0, 2...

We experimentally investigate second-harmonic transverse voltage response to ac electrical current for a magnetic nodal-line semimetal Fe 3 GeTe 2 (FGT). For zero field, the observed behaves as square of longitudinal current, it should be expected nonlinear Hall effect. The field behavior is found sophisticated: while first-harmonic shows known anomalous hysteresis in FGT, characterized by pron...

The advent of ferromagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets has stimulated high interest exploring topological magnetic textures, such as skyrmions for use future skyrmion-based spintronic devices. To engineer vdW by transforming Bloch-type bubbles into N\'eel-type skyrmions, the heterostructure heavy metal/vdW thin film been made to induce interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya...

Income-differentiated mortality, by reducing the share of poor persons in the population, leads to what can be called the "Mortality Paradox": the worse the survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We show that the extent to which FGT measures (Foster Greer Thorbecke 1984) underestimate old-age poverty under incomedifferentiated mortality depends on whether the pr...

Evaluating sums of multivariate Gaussians is a common computational task in computer vision and pattern recognition, including in the general and powerful kernel density estimation technique. The quadratic computational complexity of the summation is a significant barrier to the scalability of this algorithm to practical applications. The fast Gauss transform (FGT) has successfully accelerated ...

OBJECTIVES We conducted a pilot study to identify whether MRI parameters are sensitive to hormone-induced changes in the breast during the natural menstrual cycle and whether changes could also be observed during an oral contraceptive (OC) cycle. MATERIALS AND METHODS The New York University Langone Medical Center Institutional Review Board approved this HIPAA-compliant prospective study. All...