Background: Although Americans receive almost a quarter of their daily energy from snacks, snacking remains a poorly defined and understood eating occasion. However, there is little dietary guidance about choosing snacks. Families, clinicians, and researchers need a comprehensive approach to assessing their nutritional value. Objective: To quantify and compare the nutrient density of commonly c...

DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M School of Chemistry, University of the Wi South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M Institute, School of Physics, University Johannesburg, South Africa Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers New Jersey 08854, USA † Current address: Renewable Energy and of Namibia, 13 Storch Street, Private bag Cite this: Na...

The authors acknowledge the funding of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Plastic Electronics Doctoral Training Centre (EP/L016702/1) KP Technology Ltd for EPSRC CASE studentships. This research was also supported by ATIP Programme Grant (EP/T028513/1) Global Laboratory Program National Foundation (NRF) funded Ministry Science, ICT & Future Planning (NRF-2017K1A1A2 01...

BACKGROUND The role of airway inflammation and inflammation-induced oxidative stress in the pathogenesis and progression of chronic inflammatory airway diseases has received increasing attention in recent years. We investigated the potential anti-inflammatory and antioxidative effects of esculentoside A (EsA), a saponin isolated from the Chinese herb Phytolacca esculenta, in comparison to dexam...

INTRODUCTION The present study evaluated the pharmacokinetics and safety of elotuzumab, a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against signaling lymphocyte activation molecule-F7, combined with lenalidomide and dexamethasone, in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and renal impairment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with MM and normal renal function (NRF) (creatinine clearance [CrCl] ≥ 90 mL/min...

An algorithm is described for the nonnegative rank factorization (NRF) of some completely positive (CP) matrices whose rank is equal to their CP-rank. The algorithm can compute the symmetric NRF of any nonnegative symmetric rank-r matrix that contains a diagonal principal submatrix of that rank and size with leading cost O(rm) operations in the dense case. The algorithm is based on geometric co...

Supported by grants to T.J.R. from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF; GUN 2053812) and the Wellcome Trust (to T.J.R. and M.A.F.-S.). The work was conducted while V.T. was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stellenbosch. His support from the NRF, the University of Stellenbosch and the Russian Fund of Basic Research and Grant 01-2163 from the International Association fo...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2010-0026438), PLSI supercomputing resources of Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), and a grant from the Integrative Aging Research Center of Gwangju Institute of Science and Tech...

In order to reduce background noise in noisy speech, we have investigated a noise reduction method based on a noise reconstruction system (NRS) with an adaptive line enhancer (ALE). The NRS uses a noise reconstruction filter (NRF) estimating the background noise. In case a fixed step size for updating tap coefficients of the NRF is used, it is difficult to estimate the background noise accurate...