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Evidence-Based Nutrition Principles and Recommendations for the Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and Related Complications (2002)

Historically, nutrition principles and recommendations for diabetes and related complications have been based on scientific evidence and diabetes knowledge when available and, when evidence was not available, on clinical experience and expert consensus. Often it has been difficult to discern the level of evidence used to construct the nutrition principles and recommendations. Furthermore, in clinical practice, many nutrition recommendations that have no scientific supporting evidence have been and are still being given to individuals with diabetes. To address these problems and to incorporate the research done in the past 8 years, this 2002 technical review provides principles and recommendations classified according to the level of evidence available. It reviews the evidence from randomized, controlled trials; cohort and case-controlled studies; and observational studies, which can also provide valuable evidence (1,2), and takes into account the number of studies that have provided consistent outcomes of support. In this review, nutrition principles are graded into four categories based on the available evidence: those with strong supporting evidence, those with some supporting evidence, those with limited supporting evidence and those based on expert consensus.

Evidence-based nutrition recommendations attempt to translate research data and clinically applicable evidence into nutrition care. However, the best available evidence must still be moderated by individual circumstances and preferences. The goal of evidence-based recommendations is to improve the quality of clinical judgments and facilitate cost-effective care by increasing the awareness of clinicians and patients with diabetes of the evidence supporting nutrition services and the strength of that evidence, both in quality and quantity.

Before 1994, the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) nutrition principles and recommendations attempted to define an “ideal” nutrition prescription that would apply to everyone with diabetes (3,4,5). Although individualization was a major principle of all recommendations, it was usually done within defined …
Cyclophosphamide for multiple sclerosis (2007)

We were unable to achieve all of the objectives specified for the review. This review shows that the overall effect of CFX (administered as intensive schedule) in the treatment of progressive MS does not support its use in clinical practice.
Positioning FBAR technology in the frequency and timing domain (2012)

This paper focuses on the technical differentiation of film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology from other mechanical resonator technologies for timing applications. The paper will touch on a recent modification of FBARs, the zero-drift resonator (ZDR), that is temperature compensated. One technology differentiator is the size of the chip-scale packaged resonator. Another is that the silicon lid is perfectly suitable for placement of integrated circuits and this is currently being done. Many factors (wide tuning range, high Q, high frequency, small size, integrated circuitry) are being used to differentiate potential products for the time and frequency markets.
Calorimetric measurements of laser energy and power (1973)

The use of calorimeters for measuring laser output energies and powers is broadly reviewed. Instruments are categorized as disc, cone, hollow-sphere, bolometer, volume-absorption, and partial absorption types.
POSITION-MEASURING ERROR ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION OF HALL SENSOR IN PSEUDO-SENSORLESS PMSM DRIVING SYSTEM (2004)

Referring to a PMSM (permanent magnet synchronous motor)driving system with only two low- cost hall sensors,We analyze the position- measuring error in one pseudo-sensorless scheme,and offer methods of error compensation.Adopting the method ology based on 3-d finite element analysis,we evaluate and locate practically the mounted positions of hall sensor in the PMSM to minimize the position-measuring error.Finally, experiments are carried out to verify the corresponding 3-d finite element analysis results.
New Dielectric Elastomers with Variable Moduli (2015)

Dielectric elastomers have been widely investigated for muscle‐like soft actuators and capacitive sensors. Mechanical properties play a central role in the performances of the active material. Most elastomers have specific moduli pre‐determined by the polymers' molecular structures, which are not suitable for applications in changing working conditions as natural muscles are capable of. Here new dielectric elastomers are described exhibiting variable moduli controlled via thermal treatment. The elastomers contain furan‐maleimide Diels–Alder adduct moieties to administer the crosslinking densities of the elastomeric networks via reversible Diels–Alder/retro‐Diels–Alder cycloaddition reaction, resulting in changes in the elastomers' moduli. One of the synthesized elastomers has moduli that can be controlled between 0.17 and 0.52 MPa incrementally and reversibly. Capacitive strain sensors based on this elastomer can be operated in both rigid and soft modes to achieve variable sensing response up to 30% linear strain. Actuators were fabricated and operated in both high strain mode (35% actuation area strain at 65 MV m −1 ) and high force output mode (0.55 MPa at 104 MV m −1 ). The elastomers can exhibit a range of stress–strain outputs in similar fashion as muscle.
Urinary excretion of chromium, copper, and manganese in diabetes mellitus and associated disorders. (1991)

The urinary excretion of chromium, copper and manganese was determined in 185 diabetics and in an equal number of control subjects by measuring the concentration of each of these metals using electrothermal atomic spectrophotometry and dividing the values by the urinary concentration of creatinine (creat) in each subject. The mean (SEM) values for the overall diabetics and the control group were 2.32 (0.17) and 2.62 (0.22) mumol Cr/mole of creat, 76.5 (5.5) and 73.9 (6.1) mumol Cu/mole of creat, and 3.56 (0.44) and 2.66 (0.3) mumol Mn/mole of creat, respectively. There was no correlation between the urinary excretion of any of the metals examined and age or sex of either group. While the cardiovascular or ophthalmologic diseases associated with diabetes did not influence the excretion of any of these metals, significantly higher urinary excretion of Cu was exhibited by diabetics with neuropathy (p < 0.0027) or infections (p < 0.014) than by those without. Also, diabetics with liver disorders or those who were not treated with insulin excreted significantly more Mn than did their diabetic counterparts.
Epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films fabricated by chemical solution deposition (2006)

Epitaxial BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films were fabricated on (001)-, (110)-, and (111)-oriented single-crystal SrRuO3(SRO)∕SrTiO3(STO) structures by chemical solution deposition. X-ray diffraction indicates the formation of an epitaxial single-phase perovskite structure and pole figure measurement confirms the cube-on-cube epitaxial relationship of BFO‖SRO‖STO. Chemical-solution-deposited BFO films have a rhombohedral structure with lattice parameter of 0.395nm, which is the same structure as that of a bulk single crystal. The remanent polarization of approximately 50μC∕cm2 was observed in BFO (001) thin films at 80K.
Search and target acquisition: single line of sight versus wide baseline stereo (2001)

This study investigates observer performance in visual search and target detection tasks for two different conditions of image viewing: binocular viewing of single line of sight images versus stereoscopic display of wide baseline stereo images. A multiple baseline imagery database was obtained during a field test. The targets were personnel wearing forest camouflage uniforms. They were arrayed at two rural terrain sites. The weather condition at the first site was clear to partly cloudy and at the second site overcast with light rain. The preliminary analysis of the first site database indicated that wide baseline stereo can improve search and target acquisition, but that the baseline used was too wide for many of the closer targets at that site. The database from the second site was then analyzed through observer testing, with single line of sight and wide baseline stereo displays. The results indicate that with training, stereo vision effectively reduces false alarm detection by a factor of 2. Additionally, guidelines are obtained for optimum stereo display that can be used to improve positive target detection by 20%.
Characterization of the Functional Binding Properties of Antibody Conjugated Quantum Dots (2007)

Antibody conjugated quantum dots are an emerging technology for high-resolution labeling of biological systems. In this work we determined the number of functional antibodies (i.e., antibodies that are sterically available for functional binding to target proteins) conjugated to semiconductor quantum dots. This is critical for the interpretation of biological data labeled with these methods. We found that the number of available functional antibodies varied significantly for different conjugation methods and are lower than previously estimated. These results may suggest potential strategies for improving quantum dot labeling of biological preparations.
Electrochemical production of ozone for water purification (1994)

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Optimistic concurrency control for abstract data types (1986)

A concurrency control technique is optimistic if it allows transactions to execute without synchronization, relying on commit-time validation to ensure serializability.This paper describes several new optimistic concurrency control techniques for objects in distributed systems, proves their correctness and optimality properties, and characterizes the circumstances under which each is likely to be useful.These techniques have the following novel aspects.First, unlike many methods that classify operations only as reads or writes, these techniques systematically exploit type-specific properties of objects to validate more interleavings.Necessary and sufficient validation conditions are derived directly from an object's data type specification.Second, these techniques are modular: they can be applied selectively on a per-object (or even per-operation) basis in conjunction with standard pessimistic techniques such as two-phase locking, permitting optimistic methods to be introduced exactly where they will be most effective.Third, when integrated with quorum-consensus replication, these techniques circumvent certain tradeoffs between concurrency and availability imposed by comparable pessimistic techniques.Finally, the accuracy and efficiency of validation are further enhanced by some technical improvements: distributed validation is performed as a sideeffect of the commit protocol, and validation takes into account the results of operations, accepting certain interleavings that would have produced delays in comparable pessimistic schemes.
A Computerized Marijuana Decision Maze: Expert Opinion regarding its Use in Health Education (1986)

The Marijuana Action Maze (MAM) is a computerized simulation game designed to aid drug decision-making skills development. Its intended target population is adolescents and its developmental goals include sensitization to alternatives, consequences, and educational and rehabilitative resources available for making certain marijuana related decisions. In this initial assessment of the MAM, the Delphi technique was used to explore the MAM's applicability to its intended audience and setting and to the health education discipline. To this end, the study assessed expert opinions of practicing school health educators, practicing community health educators, and educational software experts to determine the MAM's acceptability among potential purchasers. Panelists assessed the importance, feasibility, desirability, and achievement of the MAM's developmental goals, rated its technical quality, and suggested appropriate health education applications.
MUSIC ON THE HEARTH (1930)

Journal Article MUSIC ON THE HEARTH Get access ALEXANDER BRENT SMITH ALEXANDER BRENT SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume XI, Issue 2, April 1930, Pages 184–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/XI.2.184 Published: 01 April 1930
Antiphospholipid antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögrenʼs syndrome (1993)

The spectrum of clinical descriptions and clinicopathologic studies on patients with primary and secondary forms of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome continues to widen. Some differences exist for patients with lupus compared with those with Sjogren's syndrome. Some new thoughts regarding pathogenetic mechanisms and the cofactor beta 2 glycoprotein I have been generated. Last year marked the first time the International Symposium on Anti-Phospholipid Antibodies was held in the United States; new data regarding the heterogeneity of antiphospholipid antibodies and lupus anticoagulant were highlighted, as well as the growing concept that assay modifications should not only include attention to the cofactor but also to prothrombin and other phospholipids such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Prognostic and predictive factors of both a clinical and serologic nature of antiphospholipid antibodies are the focus of much recent work, as is the controversial role of steroid therapy for specific patients. Murine models of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome have opened new avenues to explore pathogenesis and therapeutic efficacy.
3D Printed Waveguide Slot Array Antennas (2016)

Waveguide slot array antennas can have high gain, since the power distribution network (waveguide) has low loss, enabling a large aperture size. Rapid response to requirements for frequency, gain, and skew angle inspired a search for an alternative to conventional, commercial slot array acquisition. The solution to this requirement is high-resolution 3-D printing of modified slot arrays combined with metal plating. Modification of the structure included removal of wall material in regions where these openings would not cause radiation, opening the structure to enable metal plating while not affecting gain. A 3-D-printed slot array requires no further assembly, unlike conventional waveguide-based arrays that require soldering or brazing, block machining, or plate assembled, brazed structures. Stereolithography 3-D printing of plastic slot array antennas, modified to enable metal plating, has been used to produce a 30 dBi realized gain slot array at 21 GHz for under $1000 USD in a few weeks. Metal plated, 3-D printed plastic slot arrays are also very lightweight in comparison with conventional metal structures. Performance of 3-D printed, metal plated slot arrays has been shown to be identical to conventional metal structures at frequencies up to 22 GHz.
Spectroscopic Mueller matrix polarimeter using four channeled spectra (2008)

A Mueller matrix polarimeter acquired for four channeled spectra is proposed by both polarizing and analyzing optics with high-order retarder. Nine elements of the matrix can be deconvoluted without modifying the configuration of polarizing and analyzing optics.
Synthesis of mesoporous tungsten carbide by an impregnation–compaction route, and its NH3 decomposition catalytic activity (2008)

A mesoporous tungsten carbide (WC) with high surface area (138 m2 g(-1)) has been synthesized at 700 degrees C using a modified template replicating route in which the pore entrances were sealed under external pressure after the W source impregnation. X-Ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and nitrogen sorption techniques were employed to characterize the replicated material. The prepared tungsten carbide with high surface area is well crystallized and has a partially ordered mesoporous structure. Temperature programmed reaction (TPR) and time-on-stream (TOS) results show that the prepared mesoporous tungsten carbide has high and stable catalytic activity for the decomposition reaction of NH3, and the complete NH3 decomposition temperature was obtained at 500 degrees C. This mesoporous WC appears to be a good catalyst for use for NH3 decomposition.
The Need of Top Anti-reflective Coating Materials for ArF Immersion Lithography (2005)

Recently, a new technology called ArF immersion lithography is emerging as a next generation lithography. The first problem of this technology is contamination issues that come from the dissolution of contaminants from the photoresist to the immersion liquid. The second is optical problem that comes from the using hyper NA system. To solve these two problems, we have developed top antilective coating (TARC) material. This TARC material can be coated on resist without damage to the resist property. In addition to, this TARC material is easily developable by conventional 2.38 wt% TMAH solution. The reflective index of this TARC is adjusted to 1.55, so it can act as an antireflective material. To this TARC material for immersion, quencher gradient resist process (QGRP) was applied also. As a result, we could improve resolution and process margin. However, some of resists showed defects that were generated by this TARC material and QGRP. To solve this defect problem, we introduced buffer function to the TARC material. Thanks to this buffer function, we could minimize defects of resist pattern in immersion lithography.
A method of electric vehicle charging to improve battery life (2015)

The lithium-ion battery is the most expensive part of the electric vehicle (EV). Improving battery performance is one of the most important factors in promoting the EV market by prolonging battery life, reducing the cost of ownership and giving confidence in the product to potential customers. This paper considers a method of improving battery performance that extends the life of the battery and increases holding capacity. This will be realized by finding the best charging profile for an EV battery by identifying, the time that battery can accept charging and the charging profile with minimum effect on battery life. The analysis presented shows that including rest periods during battery charging reduces battery degradation in two ways. Firstly, it reduces the rate of change in battery internal resistance. Secondly, it slows down the rate of capacity fade. Moreover, it reduces the average battery temperature through charging.
Characterization of Antigenic Determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi Shared by Other Bacteria (1992)

Three antigenic determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi that were shared with other spirochetes and gram-negative bacterial species, as measured by Western blot, ELISA, or both, were identified and characterized using monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Two were associated with immunogenic integral membrane lipoproteins of 19- and 22-kDa, respectively, by [3H]palmitate incorporation and Triton X-114 phase partitioning. A third antigenic determinant was shown to be associated with a 72-kDa heat shock protein that was also immunogenic in human patients. MAb agglutination assays with B. burgdorferi and treatment of the spirochete with proteases indicated that none of the antigenic determinants were surface exposed. NH2-terminal sequence analysis revealed the 72-kDa protein to have 100% identity with the first 13 amino acid residues of the Escherichia coli dnaK heat shock protein. The presence of these and other shared antigenic determinants in ELISA antigen preparations could explain the high degree of serologic crossreactivity in current diagnostic procedures.
Entropic trapping and electrophoretic drift of a polyelectrolyte down a channel with a periodically oscillating width (1996)

We consider the electrophoretic drift of a polyelectrolyte (such as DNA) in a narrow channel or capillary with a spatially varying bore size (this can be thought of as a simplified gel model). These bore-size variations reduce the migration pathway to a series of pores and strictures creating an entropic potential surface through which the polyelectrolyte must migrate. The frequency of barrier crossing (probability of jumping to an adjacent pore) is described as an activated process that is dependent on the change in confinement entropy and on the electrostatic potential energy. At low field intensities, the strictures induce an entropic-trapping regime where the time between traps is a strong function of the molecular size; our simulations corroborate our analytic results. Moreover, we examine two critical field intensities: the first, ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}}$, is the field intensity beyond which the entropic barriers are overcome in an inhomogeneous system, while the other, ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}}_{\mathit{D}}$, is that for which the longitudinal diffusion coefficient is a maximum. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
A Wearable Platform to Identify Workers Unsafety Situations (2019)

IoT technologies allow the development of innovative solutions to monitoring human activities and, among others, ones connected to workers in order to improve their safety. However, this kind of solutions need to guarantee workers privacy preventing an usage aimed at people's control. Indeed, a similar employment is forbidden in several legislations and, more in general, solutions that have mechanisms that can hypothetical be used to monitoring the workers' activities, usually aren't accepted by workers. In this paper we illustrate the solution developed inside the SmartBench project based on wearable sensors to monitor the workers' status. Specifically, we describe in detail a waist mounted platform able to detect several situations ranging from standing, running, falling, laying down, etc. The platform is also equipped with environmental sensors able to monitor the presence of carbon monoxide, humidity, temperature, etc. Moreover, the platform can share data using an architecture-free communication schema, i.e. BLE protocol, with environmental sensors dispersed in the work area. On the base of such data, the system is able to detect anomalous situations and provide information about the status directly and exclusively to the worker. Only in case of an emergency the information is shared with the supervisor and other workers in order to better manage the crisis. Precisely, in this paper we illustrate the algorithms developed to identify the workers' status on the base of data extracted from the wearable sensor.
Mortars with Partially Oxidized Waste Rubber Crumbs (2010)

Waste rubber crumbs were partially oxidized and used as additives of mortars and have shown promising results in this study. SEM was used to observe the microstructure of the interfacial surfaces between cement hydration products (C-S-H) and rubber crumbs. SEM imagines showed that, in the interfacial zone, mortars with partially oxidized rubber crumbs had more uniform C-S-H distribution than that of mortars with as- received rubber crumbs. The compressive, flexural, and tensile strengths of mortars that included partially oxidized rubber crumbs also increased significantly.