objective: the neck circumference (nc) as an index of obesity and upper-body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution is recently used. this alternative screening tool is reliable, simple, quick and acceptable for assessment of overweight and obesity. the objectives of this study were to examine the correlation between nc measurement and diagnosis of general/visceral obesity and determining the...

Modern modeling approaches for circuit simulation such as the modified nodal analysis (MNA) lead to differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). The index of a DAE is a measure of the degree of numerical difficulty. In general, the higher the index is, the more difficult it is to solve the DAE. The index of DAEs arising from MNA has been characterized by the network structure. In this paper, we con...

let $g$ be a non-abelian group and let $z(g)$ be the center of $g$. associate with $g$ there is agraph $gamma_g$ as follows: take $gsetminus z(g)$ as vertices of$gamma_g$ and joint two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ whenever$yxneq yx$. $gamma_g$ is called the non-commuting graph of $g$. in recent years many interesting works have been done in non-commutative graph of groups. computing the clique...

EFSA’s remit in the risk assessment of GMOs is very broad encompassing genetically modified plants, microorganisms and animals and assessing their safety for humans, animals and the environment. The legal frame for GMOs is set by Directive 2001/18/EC on their release into the environment, and Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 on GM food and feed. The main focus of EFSA’s GMO Panel and GMO Unit lies ...

aim and background:   safe airway maintenance in patients under general anesthesia is the most important duty of anaesthesiologists. classic laryngeal mask airway (clma) is a supra-glottic device to achieve this aim. there are different insertion techniques for this device, but the best of them is unknown. methods and materials:   two hundred patients were included in this mono-blinded clinical...

The Merrifield-Simmons index is related to several physicochemical characteristics and is thus of use in combinatorial chemistry, e.g. in drug design and molecular recognitions. In this paper, we show how one can algorithmically construct databases of acyclic molecular graphs with large Merrifield-Simmons index. Our algorithm can deal with a large number of atoms (several hundreds) in short tim...