An archaeological investigation of a medieval cemetery gave us the opportunity to investigate 49 Danish skeletons dating from 1000 to 1250 A.D. and to compare them with 298 contemporary Danes (aged 19-79 years) and assess the millennial trend in bone mineral density (BMD) in populations considered genetically closely related. BMD and bone mineral apparent density (BMAD) of the femoral neck were...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact executive remuneration and firms’ leverage on stability as measured by winsorized Zscore (wZscore). wZscore measure corresponds Altman Zscore, which increases default risk decreases. To test study’s hypotheses, a linear regression model applied 6-year panel dataset 180 listed firms categorized in 10 economic sectors operating 22 countries from year...

Identity1 is the percentage sequence identity of the templates in the threading aligned region with the query sequence. Identity2 is the percentage sequence identity of the whole template chains with query sequence. Coverage represents the coverage of the threading alignment and is equal to the number of aligned residues divided by the length of query protein. Normalized Z-score is the normaliz...

Perceptual and acoustic representations of vowel data were compared directly to evaluate the perceptual relevance of several speaker normalization transformations. The acoustic representations consisted of raw F0 and formant data. The perceptual representations were obtained through an experimental procedure, with phonetically trained listeners as subjects. The raw acoustic data were transforme...

The association between onchocerca infection, vision and nutritional status in children aged 5-14 years in an onchocerciasis endemic area in Nigeria was evaluated using pre-ivermectin baseline data. A total of 6950 children in 3 local government areas (LGAs) was examined. The crude prevalence of microfilariae was 27.7% and of nodules 20.6%. The overall intensity was 5.3 ±. 7.6 SD microfilariae ...

We present a method based on multiresolution signal processing on meshes to create a thickness atlas. We applied this method to construct an atlas of bladder wall thickness. Bladder cancer is associated with increased bladder wall thickness. A thickness atlas helps to detect abnormal thickening in the bladder wall. Extracting inner and outer surface meshes from segmented images, we compute the ...