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Site and Mechanism of Leptin's Antisteatotic and Insulin Sensitizing Actions in Lipodystrophic Liver
Esra Asilmaz
Jan 01, 0001
An adipocyte hormone which functions as the afferent signal in a negative feedback loop regulating energy balance, has profound effects on glucose and lipid metabolisms. Lipodystrophic humans and mice have a complete or partial...
Diabetes Leptin Glucose homeostasis Hepatic steatosis Lipid Metabolism Insulin Resistance Life Sciences
Published by: Rockefeller University
Lack of attentional retraining effects in cigarette smokers attempting cessation
Rachna Begh, Marcus R Munafò, Saul Shiffman, Stuart G Ferguson, Linda Nichols, Mohammed A Mohammed, Roger L Holder, Stephen Sutton, Paul Aveyard
Jun 15, 2018
BACKGROUND: Observational studies have shown that attentional bias for smoking-related cues is associated with increased craving and relapse. Laboratory experiments have shown that manipulating attentional bias may change...
Influence of ethnicity on acceptability of method of blood pressure monitoring
Sally Wood, Sheila M Greenfield, M Sayeed Haque, Una Martin, Paramjit S Gill, Jonathan Mant, Mohammed A Mohammed, Gurdip Heer, Amanpreet Johal, Ramandeep Kaur, Claire Schwartz, Richard J McManus
May 02, 2018
BACKGROUND: Ambulatory and/or home monitoring are recommended in the UK and the US for the diagnosis of hypertension but little is known about their acceptability. AIM: To determine the acceptability of different methods of...
Blood Pressure Monitoring Ethnicity Hypertension patient satisfaction PRIMARY CARE Ambulatory Care Facilities Antihypertensive Agents blood pressure Blood Pressure Monitoring Ambulatory Cross-Sectional Studies England Ethnicity Female Focus Groups Humans Hypertension Male Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care Patient Care Management Primary Health Care
Measurement of blood pressure for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in different ethnic groups
Paramjit Gill, M Sayeed Haque, Una Martin, Jonathan Mant, Mohammed A Mohammed, Gurdip Heer, Amanpreet Johal, Ramandeep Kaur, Claire Schwartz, Sally Wood, Sheila M Greenfield, Richard J McManus
Feb 09, 2017
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and prevalence varies by ethnic group. The diagnosis and management of blood pressure are informed by guidelines largely based on data from white...
Mental health law in Turkey
In Turkey, mental health professionals, together with patients and carers, have been involved in the drafting of the Mental Health Bill which is presently under consideration by Parliament. While the Mental Health Law is...
Ethnicity and differences between clinic and ambulatory blood pressure measurements.
Una Martin, M Sayeed Haque, Sally Wood, Sheila M Greenfield, Paramjit S Gill, Jonathan Mant, Mohammed A Mohammed, Gurdip Heer, Amanpreet Johal, Ramendeep Kaur, Claire Schwartz, Richard J McManus
Mar 18, 2015
ambulatory blood pressure monitoring blood pressure Blood Pressure Determination ethnic group Hypertension systolic pressure white coat hypertension. Adult Aged Ambulatory Care Facilities Antihypertensive Agents blood pressure Blood Pressure Monitoring Ambulatory Ethnicity Female Humans Hypertension Male Middle Aged Patient Care Management Practice Patterns Physicians' United Kingdom
A limited region electrical capacitance tomography for detection of deposits in pipelines
Pipeline deposit is a worldwide problem facing the process industry affecting all phases of production, transmission, and distribution causing problems to the pipeline operations up to the customer delivery point. Therefore...
Regional Budget Policy Related to Handling of Covid-19 In Kupang City
This study aims to have a deep, thorough, and detailed understanding of budget policies and provide a broad explanation of how to handle the budget during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kupang City. The data was collected through...
Published by: Indonesia Strategic Sustainability
Emotional Presence in Online Learning
This chapter presents a theoretical understanding of emotional presence in online learning. Research findings show that emotions have a crucial influence on successful online learning. The increasing rate of online courses...
Web-Based Teaching & Learning Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Media and Communications Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A limited region electrical capacitance tomography for detection of deposits in pipelines
Pipeline deposit is a worldwide problem facing the process industry affecting all phases of production, transmission, and distribution causing problems to the pipeline operations up to the customer delivery point. Therefore...
Dissecting the Contribution of the Carboxyl-Terminal Domain and Tail of HIV-1 Integrase to Viral Dynamics and Enzymatic Function
Kevin Dominic Mohammed
Jan 01, 0001
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) is the causative agent of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Combination antiviral therapy has proven to be particularly effective at suppressing viral replication...
HIV-1 HAART antiviral drug therapy IN (antiviral drugs) viral integrase carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) Life Sciences
Published by: Rockefeller University
Applying Machine Learning and Model-Driven Approach for the Identification and Diagnosis Of Covid-19
Ubiquitous environments are not fixed in time. Entities are constantly evolving; they are dynamic. Ubiquitous applications therefore have a strong need to adapt during their execution and react to the context changes, and...
Grid & High Performance Computing Computer Science and Information Technology High Performance Computing
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An Efficient Method for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Web-Kernel Similarity
Searching for the best sense for a polysemous word remains one of the greatest challenges in the representation of biomedical text. To this end, Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) algorithms mostly rely on an External Source of...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Fabrication of nanoscale Bi Hall sensors by lift-off techniques for applications in scanning probe microscopy
Bismuth Hall effect sensors with active sizes in the range of 0.1-2 μm have been fabricated by electron beam lithography and lift-off techniques for applications in scanning Hall probe microscopy. The Hall coefficients, offset...
Tax competition between developed, emerging, and developing countries – Same same but different?
This paper analyzes tax competition between countries, which differ in their country-specific risks. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift...
The Gift of Drugs
Mohammed Hamdan
Dec 14, 2022
This article argues that Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater subverts the colonial representation of foreign places by providing a counter geographical narrative of English imperialism. De Quincey’s...
decolonial studies; Literature; Cultural Studies De Quincey; Confessions; space; arabesque; imperial; opium Romantic Literary Studies
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Learning architecture for the recognition of walking and prediction of gait period using wearable sensors
This work presents a novel learning architecture for the recognition and prediction of walking activity and gait period, respectively, using wearable sensors. This approach is composed of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a...
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