Chronic exposure to urban traffic pollution is documented to promote atherosclerosis in adults but little is known about its potential effects in children. Our study examined the association of long-term exposure to traffic with carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in 287 healthy children. Residential proximity and distance-weighted traffic density (DWTD) were used as proximity markers for tra...

Carbohydrate supplementation is extremely important during prolonged exercise because it maintains blood glucose levels during later stages of exercise. In this study, we examined whether maintaining blood glucose levels by carbohydrate supplementation could be enhanced during long-term exercise by combining this supplementation with alanine and proline, which are gluconeogenic amino acids, and...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of long-term care (LTC) insurance on nursing home use. DESIGN Longitudinal analysis, 1998 to 2006 waves of the Health Retirement Study. SETTING Community-dwelling nationally representative sample. PARTICIPANTS Nineteen thousand one hundred seventy adults aged 50 and older, 1998 wave. METHODS Two groups of respondents were created at baseline: those wit...

the aim of this study was to determine short-term changes of blood rheology after intensive endurance exercise in national triathlon athletes. nine national athletes of triathlon (mean age=20.12±2.15 years, weight 70.12±8.54 kg) took part in this study voluntarily. subjects performed triathlon race which is one of the branches of multiple sports (which consisted of 2 kilometers running, 7 kilom...

the present study was focused upon the assessment of acetyl-cholinesterase (ache) activity in the digestive gland (main metabolic center) and foot (highly innervated organ) of the green garden snail, cantareus apertus (born, 1778), exposed to different nominal dietary concentrations of pb (25 and 2500 mg pb/kg), cd (10 and 100 mg cd/kg) and their combination (25 mg pb + 10 mg cd/kg and 2500 mg ...

We describe a true-concurrent approach for managing dependencies between distributed and concurrent coordinator components of a long-running transaction. In previous work we have described how interactions specified in a scenario can be translated into a tuples-based behavioural description, namely vector languages. In this paper we show how reasoning against order-theoretic properties of such ...