Physiological levels of cortisol have been found to blunt neuroendocrine and metabolic responses to subsequent hypoglycemia in humans. The aim of this study was to determine whether cortisol acts directly on the brain to elicit this effect. A total of 41 conscious unrestrained Sprague-Dawley rats were studied during 2-day experiments. Day 1 consisted of two episodes of clamped 2-h hyperinsuline...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the most widely used technique for evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of homogeneous decision making units. Traditionally, it assumes that input and output variables are known in advance, ignoring the critical issue of data uncertainty. In this paper, we deal with the problem of efficiency evaluation under uncertain conditions by adopting the g...

In any legal system, one finds numerous rules and practices as well as constitutional provisions which are incompatible with utilitarian considerations. These rules and practices often grant benefits to an individual whose wellbeing is at risk; yet the costs of these benefits to other individuals outweigh the benefits. Thus, for instance, despite the persistent belief of economists that efficie...

There are various methods for the identification of human remains; most of them are based on comparisons between available ante- and post-mortem data. Although fingerprinting is the most accurate and precise method, in many cases, such as in mutilated, decomposed, burned or fragmented bodies, it cannot be used, and the dental methods become of the utmost importance, since teeth and dental resto...

@INPROCEEDINGS{SBKl_FDT94, AUTHOR = {Böhmer, S. and Klafka, R.}, TITLE = {A new approach to performance evaluation of formally specified protocols}, JOURNAL = {Formal description Techniques VII}, YEAR = {1994}, VOLUME = {0}, PAGES = {452-454}, PUBLISHER = {Chapman and Hall}, ADDRESS = {Londo}, AFFILIATION = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University}, URL...

background and objective: evaluation is one of the major aspects in process of educational activities. evaluation provides the possibility to assess strengthens and weaknesses. the present study has been conducted under the goal to assess approach of students evaluation by basic sciences and clinical sciences educational groups at medical school of shiraz university of medical sciences. methods...

Evaluation is a central and essential activity in conducting rigorous Design Science Research (DSR), yet there is surprisingly little guidance about designing the DSR evaluation activity beyond suggesting possible methods that could be used for evaluation. This paper extends the notable exception of the existing framework of Pries-Heje et al [11] to address this problem. The paper proposes an e...

We previously determined that both antecedent hypoglycemia and elevated cortisol levels blunt neuroendocrine and metabolic responses to subsequent hypoglycemia in conscious, unrestrained rats. The adrenal steroid dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) has been shown in several studies to oppose corticosteroid action. The purpose of this study was to determine if DHEA-S could preserve counterre...