Evidence is increasing that the postprandial state is an important factor contributing to the risk of chronic diseases. Not only mean glycemia, but also glycemic variability has been implicated in this effect. In this exploratory study, we measured 24-h glucose profiles in 25 overweight participants in a long-term diet intervention study (DIOGENES study on Diet, Obesity and Genes), which had be...

An incomplete degree is cuppable if it can be joined by an incomplete degree to a complete degree. For sets fulfilling some type of simplicity property one can now ask whether these sets are cuppable with respect to a certain type of reducibilities. Several such results are known. In this paper we settle all the remaining cases for the standard notions of simplicity and all the main strong redu...

Background Diastolic dysfunction (DD) is common in patients with cardiovascular disease. Current cardiac magnetic resonance techniques for assessment of DD require the acquisition of tagged imaging sequences, and complex post-processing. A new post-processing software allows for rapid strain assessment using feature tracking analysis (FT) (TomTec, Diogenes Software, Germany) based on convention...

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Diogenidae), D. canaliculatus, is described and illustrated on the basis of material from off the Kerala State, southern India. It is referred to the D. edwardsii (De Haan, 1849) species group, and compared with D. bicristimanus Alcock, 1905, D. fasciatus Rahayu & Forest, 1995, D. laevicarpus Rahayu, 1996 and D. moosai Rahayu & Forest,...

A diagnosis of Latapi’s lepromatosis (Lucio’s leprosy) is usually established in the setting of Lucio’s phenomenon. The report by Diogenes et al. showed that Latapi’s lepromatosis can be diagnosed in the absence of Lucio’s phenomenon. Our clinical experience with 30 patients with Lucio’s phenomenon and Latapi’s lepromatosis has indicated what features are strongly suggestive of Latapi’s leproma...

The city of Salamanca and its historical University with tradition in classical studies has always attracted the presence Greek Cypriot teachers intellectuals. This study focuses on four them who have been over centuries as academic or admirers famous great figures: Diogenes Paraponaris, Neofitos Rodinos, Nikos Kazantzakis Kostas Tsiropoulos. reached conclusion that from 16th century until 20th...

The data flow in natural language generation (NLG) starts with a 'world' state, represented by structures of an application program (e.g., an expert system) that has text generation needs and an impetus to produce a natural language text. The output of generation is a natural language text. The generation process involves the tasks of a) delimiting the content of the eventual text, b) plano nin...