Caloric restriction (CR) is known to retard the aging process, and a marker of aging is decreased energy expenditure (EE). To assess longitudinal effects of CR on EE in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), data from 41 males (M) and 26 females (F) subjected to 9 or 15 yr of CR were studied. EE and body composition of monkeys 11-28 yr of age were measured using indirect calorimetry and dual X-ray ab...

INTRODUCTION EuroSIDA has previously reported a poorer clinical prognosis for HIV-positive individuals in Eastern Europe (EE) as compared with patients from other parts of Europe, not solely explained by differences in patient characteristics. We explored regional variability in self-reported HIV management at individual EuroSIDA clinics, with a goal of identifying opportunities to reduce the a...

Carum copticum is a grassy and annual plant which is believed to have several therapeutic effects, including anti-asthmatic properties. We have therefore studied the bronchodilatory and anticholinergic effects of 4 rnL aqueous extract (AE), 0.0 5 mL ethanol extract (EE), and 0.0 0 5 mL essential oil (EO) of Carum copticum and 1 rnL of a 5 mM solution of its main ingredient, thymol (T), in ...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic circumstance characterized by high blood glucose level and partial or absolute impairment of insulin secretion. Diabetes in females leads to sexual disorders such as loss of libido, low ovulation rate and disorder in oocyte maturation. Therefore the current study was designed to evaluate the protective effect of Equisetum arvense alcoholic ext...

carum copticum is a grassy and annual plant which is believed to have several therapeutic effects, including anti-asthmatic properties. we have therefore studied the bronchodilatory and anticholinergic effects of 4 rnl aqueous extract (ae), 0.0 5 ml ethanol extract (ee), and 0.0 0 5 ml essential oil (eo) of carum copticum and 1 rnl of a 5 mm solution of its main ingredient, thymol (t), in compa...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Some patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) (>15 eosinophils/high-power field on esophageal mucosal biopsies and lack of response to acid suppression and/or normal pH probe study) demonstrate incidental eosinophilic inflammation of the gastric mucosa. It is unclear whether patients with EE and normal gastric biopsies (EE-N) are phenotypically different from patients with...

1. Introduction The objective of modern superscalar processors is to maximize the instruction-level parallelism (ILP) that can be extracted from programs. The most basic method used for extracting more ILP from programs is out-of-order execution [1]. Unfortunately, out-of-order execution by itself does not provide a desired level of ILP. The program's control flow [2] and data flow [3] impose s...

A typical video projector has three fixed primaries, typically red, green and blue, and operates by showing a sub-frame consisting of a single color primary at a time. In order to improve the color gamut the projector can cover, one could add more color primaries (e.g. yellow, magenta), however, this would require the projector to be able to operate at higher speeds to show more primaries. Here...

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The concept of expressed emotion (EE) has been extended to the study of staff-patient relationships in schizophrenia. A comprehensive review of the literature identified a total of 27 studies investigating EE in this group published between 1990 and 2008. The article aims to assess whether the concept of EE is a useful and valid measure of the quality of professional caregiver and patient relat...