BACKGROUND Blood glucose (BG) monitoring systems enable diabetes patients to effectively control and adjust their therapy. BG monitoring systems with a Conformité Européenne (CE) label should meet the standard DIN EN ISO 15197:2003: > or =95% of the BG results shall fall within +/-15 mg/dL of the reference method at BG concentrations <75 mg/dL and within +/-20% at BG concentrations > or =75 mg/...

Black ginseng is produced by a repeated steaming process. The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-obesity effects of black ginseng ethanol extract (BG-EE) in high fat (HF) diet-fed mice. Two groups were fed either a normal control (NC) diet or a HF diet (45% kcal fat). The other three groups were given a HF diet supplemented with 1% BG-EE, 3% BG-EE, and 5% BG-EE for 12 wk. The anti-ob...

The BG-simulation is currently the main tool, short of arguing directly about topology, to show the impossibility of r/w protocol to solve a task T (res) on n processors, t-resiliently. It is done by reducing T (res) from a counterpart task T (wf) on t + 1 processors and showing that T (wf) is not wait-free solvable. The task T (wf) derived from T (res), is driven by the capability of the BG-si...

The correlation of β-glucan (BG) levels with clinical outcomes in invasive candidiasis (IC) remains unknown. Patients with proven IC were followed prospectively from diagnosis to outcome with twice-weekly serum BG sampling. Correlation of BG with clinical outcome was assessed in each patient. BG levels tend to decrease in successfully treated patients and increase in treatment failures. BG leve...

Let G be a discrete group for which the classifying space for proper G-actions is finite-dimensional. We find a space W such that for any such G, the classifying space BG for proper G-bundles has the homotopy type of the W -nullification of BG. We use this to deduce some results concerning BG and in some cases where there is a good model for BG we obtain information about the BZ/p-nullification...

A rapid biological synthesis of multifunctional gold nanoparticle (AuNp) and monodisperse silver nanoparticle (AgNp) was achieved by an aqueous extract of black Panax ginseng Meyer root. The physicochemical transformation into black ginseng (BG) greatly enhanced the pharmacological activities of white ginseng and its minor ginsenoside content. The optimal temperature conditions and kinetics of ...

The basic aspects of both Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) and nonextensive statistical mechanics can be seen through three different stages. First, the proposal of an entropic functional (S(BG)=-k Sigma(i)p(i)ln p(i) for the BG formalism) with the appropriate constraints (Sigma(i)p(i)=1 and Sigma(i)p(i)E(i)=U for the BG canonical ensemble). Second, through optimization, the equilibrium or stationary-state...

BACKGROUND Dysregulations of blood glucose (BG) are associated with adverse outcome in critical illness; controlling BG to target appears to improve outcome. Since BG-control is challenging in daily intensive care practice BG-control remains poor especially in patients with rapidly fluctuating BG. To improve BG-control and to avoid deleterious hypoglycemia, automated online-measurement tools ar...

Recently, oxidative stress has been identified as a pivotal pathological factor inducing bone osteoporosis. This phenomenon is responsible for low bone density. It alters bone quality and generates bone fractures. Strontium is found to induce osteoblast activity by stimulating bone formation and reducing bone resorption by restraining osteoclasts. Bioglass (BG) has been used to repair bone defe...

Germfree beige-nude ( bg/bg-nu/nu) and beige-heterozygous ( bg/bg-nu/+) mice were colonized with a pure culture of Candida albicans or with a probiotic bacterium (Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus reuteri, Lactobacillus casei, or Bifidobacterium infantis). Probiotic-colonized mice were subsequently challenged orally with C. albicans. The effect of prior colonization with probiotic bacter...