BACKGROUND In Singapore, as diabetes is an increasingly important public health issue, the cost-effectiveness of pursuing lifestyle modification programs and/or alternative prevention strategies is of critical importance for policymakers. While the US Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compared weight loss through lifestyle modification with oral treatment of diabetes drug metformin to prevent/d...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 538 VOLUME 45__JULY 17, 2008 Pneumonia is now widely regarded as the dominant cause of child mortality in the developing world with over 150 million cases and almost 2.4 million deaths annually(1). Although there are remarkable advances in preventive strategies including nutrition interventions such as promotion of exclusive breastfeeding, environmental control such as reducti...

This report shows that safe extension of the service life of existing bridge structures is possible through bridge health monitoring and structural response modification. To understand bridge health monitoring and structural response modification and control, it is necessary to examine: 1) common bridge vulnerabilities, 2) bridge loading models, 3) response modification devices, and 4) bridge m...

Logistic regression is a non-linear modification of the linearregression. The purpose of the logistic regression analysis is tomeasure the effects of multiple explanatory variables which can becontinuous and response variable is categorical. In real life there aresituations which we deal with information that is vague innature and there are cases that are not explainedprecisely. In this regard,...

A descriptive study was carried out to identify the patient's physical activity with myocardial infarction modification and behavioral intervention adapted for new life style after discharge

background and aim: one of the main strategies for keeping health is having healthy life style. due to important role of adolescent health in community health promotion, this study aimed to determine health promoting life style in female adolescents of high schools and its associated factors in mashhad, iran. methods: this cross- sectional study was conducted on 810 girls ranging in ages from 1...

An astounding number of important regulatory and structural proteins are subject to modification by the attachment of ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins. This modification acts as a targeting signal, delivering the modified protein to different locations in the cell and modifying its activity, macromolecular interactions, or half-life. Deubiquitination, or the removal of this modification, is...

Throughout all domains of life, nucleic acid-based epigenetic modification of DNA is established as a regulatory mechanism that can affect different processes ranging from the replicative mismatch repair to the transcriptional activity of genes. Modifications can be preserved during cell divisions and play important roles in development-with consequences of aberrant regulation of modification s...