BACKGROUND Obesity is investigated as a health concern due to high prevalence in the world. Nowadays, researchers are looking for an indirect method to measure weight and height. Self-reported Body Mass Index (BMI) is ever more served as an alternative method for direct weight and height measurement. Misreporting is a usual concern in self-reported BMI, thus, this study set explored the associa...

Climate is a limiting factor in viticulture, as it defines favorable areas, grape cultivars, and agrotechnical activities. In the Sevastopol region, viticulture main promising agricultural branch. Using outputs of regional climate models from CORDEX project, projections agroclimatic conditions region for two future periods (2021–2045 2046–2070) under representative concentration pathways (RCP4....

Material/Methods: In 34 young patients (aged <40 years) with recurrent deep venous thrombosis (>2 incidents) the activity of antithrombin III, protein C, S, platelet count, adhesion and aggregation, APTT, stipven-kephalin, prothrombin time and INR were investigated. Fibrinogen, factor XIII, ELT, FDP, Ag t-PA levels, antigen concentration and PAI-1 activity were determined. Patients with idiopat...

Th is research note describes an interconnection between touristic potential of localities impacted by the First and the Second World War, by focusing on a case study of cemeteries in the North-East of Slovakia. Th e case study proposes to create a Slovak part of the ‘dark tourism thematic trail’ through cemeteries from the First World War that could join the existing Polish part of the trail a...

Algorithms for triangulating polygons are important tools throughout computational geometry. Many problems involving polygons are simplified by partitioning the complex polygon into triangles, and then working with the individual triangles. The applications of such algorithms are well documented in papers involving visibility, motion planning, and computer graphics. The following notes give an ...

OBJECTIVE The study examined changes in and relationship between body mass index (BMI), leptin and adiponectin levels over a 3-year period in a pediatric population-based cohort. STUDY DESIGN A 3-year prospective cohort study of 268 boys and 251 girls aged 9-10 in Ina, Saitama, Japan. RESULTS Median body mass index (BMI) significantly increased from baseline (age 9-10) to follow up (age 12-...

The synthesis of five new tetracyclic benzopsoralen analogues, compounds 2-6, with 9H-xanthen-9-one or 9H-carbazole frameworks, is described. Their inhibitory effects on the growth of three human tumor cell lines (MCF-7, SF-268, and NCI-460) were evaluated, and discussed in terms of structure-activity relationship, taking into account both geometric and electronic features. Generally, the angul...

Introduction. The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a 19-item questionnaire for the assessment of disability caused by foot pain. The aim was to develop a Danish language version of the MFPDI (MFPDI-DK) and evaluate its reproducibility and construct validity. Methods. A Danish version was created, following a forward-backward translation procedure. A sample of 84 adult patien...