The helper therapy principle (HTP) observes the helper's health benefits derived from helping another with a shared malady. The HTP is embodied by the program of Alcoholics Anonymous as a method to diminish egocentrism as a root cause of addiction. This article reviews recent evidence of the HTP in alcohol populations, extends to populations with chronic conditions beyond addiction, and conclud...

BACKGROUND One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments. The HTP has three phases: the first phase (launched in May 5, 2014) is focused on reducing OOP payments for inpatient services; the second phase (launched in May 22, 2014) is focused on primary healthcare (PHC) and the...

The Hard Thresholding Pursuit (HTP) is a class of truncated gradient descent methods for finding sparse solutions of l0-constrained loss minimization problems. The HTP-style methods have been shown to have strong approximation guarantee and impressive numerical performance in high dimensional statistical learning applications. However, the current theoretical treatment of these methods has trad...

AIM We wanted to explore if whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including diffusion-weighted (DW) and liver-specific contrast agent-enhanced imaging could be valuable in lesion detection of neuroendocrine tumors (NET). [11C]-5-Hydroxytryptophan positron emission tomography/computed tomography (5-HTP PET/CT) was used for comparison. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one patients with NET we...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect hydrothermal pretreatment (HTP) at 90, 125 and 155 °C on extent anaerobic digestion (AD) sewage sludge, energy balance, distribution availability N P. AD evaluated with four bench-scale mesophilic, semi-continuous digesters 20-d (Phase 1) 10-d 2) solids retention time (SRT), fed raw sludge (R1), 90 (R2), (R3) (R4) HTP sludge. two mixtures u...

In humans, a well-developed serotonin system is localized to the pancreatic islets while being absent in exocrine pancreas. Assessment of pancreatic serotonin biosynthesis could therefore be used to estimate the human endocrine pancreas. Proof of concept was tested in a prospective clinical trial by comparisons of type 1 diabetic (T1D) patients, with extensive reduction of β-cells, with healthy...

This paper describes the distribution of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) activities in fourteen tissues (eight peripheral tissues and six brain regions) of semicarbazide (SC)-treated rats, using both L-DOPA and L-5-hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP) as substrates. The distribution of pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) was also measured in control and SC-treated rats. SC-treatment decreased the PLP c...

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have increased our capacity for collecting finer spatiotemporal resolution data that were previously unobtainable through conventional methods. The use of UAS obtaining high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) in plant breeding programs has gained popularity recent years. integrity and quality the raw are essential ensuring accuracy predictive tools proper interpretation...

Abstract Bagasse, a major by-product of sugarcane-processing industries, has potential to play significant role as feedstock for production cellulosic ethanol, platform chemicals, and bio-based commodities. Pretreatment is essential efficient processing lignocellulosic feedstocks by biochemical conversion. In this work, auto-catalyzed (A-HTP) dilute sulfuric-acid-catalyzed (SA-HTP) hydrothermal...

Serotonin is known to regulate energy and calcium homeostasis in several mammalian species. The objective of this study was to determine if pre-partum infusions of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), the immediate precursor to serotonin synthesis, could modulate energy homeostasis at the level of the hepatocyte in post-partum Holstein and Jersey dairy cows. Twelve multiparous Holstein cows and twelve ...