We study the energy decay of the difference of two solutions for dissipative evolution problems of the type: u" + Lu + g(u') = h(t), t > 0, including wave and plate equations and ordinary differential equations. In the general case, when the damping term g behaves like a power of the velocity v!, the energy decreases like a negative power of time, multiplied by a constant depending on the initi...

The type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most serious diseases that threaten public health. Modified gastric bypass surgery has been applied to the treatment of T2DM patients in the 1990s, but the therapeutic mechanism to this function is still unclear. The aim of this study was to further clarify the effect and the mechanism of modified gastric bypass surgery on glucose metabolism in ...

Epidermal nevi (EN) are hamartomatous lesions derived from epidermal components originating from pluripotent cell mutations. They have been categorized according to their predominant component. The existence of >2 types of EN concurrently within a single area or within contiguous areas has been rarely reported. This report describes the case of simultaneous presence of a yellowish plaque on the...

This paper proposes a system that allows a group of human users to share their cultural experiences online, like buying together a gift from a museum or browsing simultaneously the collection of this museum. We show that such application involves two multiple criteria decision problems for choosing between different alternatives (e.g. possible gifts): one at the level of each user, and one at t...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery has been shown to decrease consummatory responsiveness of rats to high sucrose concentrations, and genetic deletion of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors (GLP-1R) has been shown to decrease consummatory responsiveness of mice to low-sucrose concentrations. Here we assessed the effects of RYGB and pharmacological GLP-1R modulation on sucrose licking by chow...

Redox-active solids with accessible porosity are currently in the focus of materials research due to their numerous and prevailing applications like in sensing, as corrosion inhibitors, in organic synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis and last but not least for electrochemical energy storage e.g. in the form of supercapacitors. Examples include nanostructured transition metal oxides like RuO2 or M...