`Avoid trivia.' Such was the advice given to George F. Kennan, first director of the Policy Planning Staff (s/P) 1 of the United States Department of State by the Secretary of State, George C. Marshall. The staff was created by Marshall in April 1947 in response to perceived threats of economic collapse and political chaos in postwar Europe. Kennan and his five-man staff assumed active roles in...

BACKGROUND Spice consumption helps the treatment of diseases due to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory contents. Cardamom is one of this spices; therefore, this study is designed to determine the effect of cardamom supplementation on serum lipids, glycemic indices, and blood pressure in pre-diabetic women. METHODS Eighty overweight or obese pre-diabetic women were randomly allocated to t...

In the scientific field, there is a progressive awareness about the potential implications of food processing on mycotoxins especially concerning thermal treatments. High temperatures may cause, in fact, transformation or degradation of these compounds. This work is aimed to study the fate of mycotoxins during bakery processing, focusing on deoxynivalenol (DON) and deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside (D...

Structural and functional derangement of the liver has been noted in patients with hyperthyroidism(Cameron and Kurunaratne, 1935;Lichtman, 1953;Werner, 1955). Paul, in 1865, was the first to mention the association of hepatic cirrhosis and toxic thyroid disease. Jaundice was first mentioned by Haberson(1874). Kerr and Rusk, in 1922, reported acute yellow atrophy of the liver associated with hyp...

This paper describes a machine translation (MT) evaluation (MTE) research program which has benefited from the availability of two collections of source language texts and the results of processing these texts with several commercial MT engines (DARPA 1994, Doyon, Taylor, & White 1999). The methodology entails the systematic development of a predic tive relationship between discrete, well-defin...

We solve the model order selection problem for a multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) channel in analogy to the detection problem for multiple signals embedded in noisy observations. Our approach uses a multiple hypothesis test based on log-likelihood ratios. This multiple test detects the number of propagation paths in a multipath channel iteratively. To control the global level of the multipl...

The hypothesis was tested that the variation of in vivo glycolytic flux with contraction frequency in skeletal muscle can be qualitatively and quantitatively explained by calcium-calmodulin activation of phosphofructokinase (PFK-1). Ischemic rat tibialis anterior muscle was electrically stimulated at frequencies between 0 and 80 Hz to covary the ATP turnover rate and calcium concentration in th...

CONTEXT Chronic, nonspecific back pain is a ubiquitous problem that has frustrated both physicians and patients. Some have suggested that it is time for a "paradigm shift" in treating it. One of them is John Sarno, MD, of New York University's Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation, who has argued for this in 4 books and several journal publications. We believe that a mind-body approach is more effec...