introduction: limited data are available on the effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. we evaluated the effectiveness of citalopram in the treatment of childhood functional abdominal pain (fap).   material and methods: children with fap (n=115, aged 6-18 years) received either citalopram 20 mg/day or placebo for 4 weeks. treatment...

The last three chapters discussed how regulatory and economic principles apply to experiments on feeding, the allocation of time among various activities, and choice between different ways of getting food. But a critical test of any approach is how well it can deal with the way animals behave in nature. It is hard to devise a fair test, of course, because in nature nothing is controlled, and ob...

In this paper we consider a predator-prey system with a sigmoid functional response of the form ~ ( x ) = x n / ( a + x n ) , n > 1 . Following Sugie et al. results in [S] and 191, by taking advantage of Freedman and So's theorem in 131, we present a sufficient and necessary condition for the nonexistence of limit cycles of this system with n > 1.

Background: It is important to use reliable, valid, and responsive instruments to assess the treatment outcomes. The functional rating index (FRI) is a patient reported outcome measure to assess the pain and function in patients with neck and low back pain. The FRI has been translated and culturally adapted into Persian language. The purpose of this study was to investigate the responsiveness o...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to provide a reference base for suggesting proper guidelines for the health of the people by analyzing perception and intake pattern on health functional foods and by identifying needs in pre- and postmenopausal women. METHODS We conducted a self-administered survey in women admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a university hospital be...

1 Introduction. Customizable programs and program families provide user-selectable features allowing users to tailor the programs to the application scenario or platform. Beside functional requirements, users are often interested in non-functional requirements, such as a binary-size limit, a minimized energy consumption, and a maximum response time. To tailor a program to non-functional require...

Successful news recommendation requires facing the challenges of dynamic item sets, contextual item relevance, and of fulfilling non-functional requirements, such as response time. The CLEF NewsREEL challenge is a campaignstyle evaluation lab allowing participants to tackle news recommendation and to optimize and evaluate their recommender algorithms both online and offline. In this paper, we s...