Metabolic syndrome (MSX) identifies clinical symptoms and lab results, including abdominal
obesity, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, that lead to …

From hot dogs to Hashimoto9s and inheritance to inactivity, many “entrance ramps” converge
onto the “Highway to Obesity”, each contributing caloric intake that exceeds expenditure. …

Many French wines, and now other kinds of agricultural products, manifest the process of “patrimonialization”
as a counterforce to the homogenizing trends in the globalization of world …

INDEX TERMS: Obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, diabetes. Full Text:
Modern societies suffer from an obesity epidemic, despite considerable societal pressure to …

Background Sarcopenia, the age‐associated decline in skeletal muscle mass and strength,
has long been considered a disease of muscle only, but accumulating evidence suggests …

The Focus section seeks to publish relevant and timely continuing education for clinical
laboratory practitioners. Section editors, topics, and authors are selected in advance to cover …

… gadE gene from strains 206, 209, 227, 241, and 248 and examined functional complementation
by mobilizing plasmid pIB1 (gadE) … , had a defect in their gadE sequence; however, only …

?~ i?? il~ ri: n the early evening of 12 December 1994, Rob-ert Gordon Boling and Jean Gade
Boling were killed in a vehicle accident on the highway between Macan and Aqaba. They …

We present a method for computing lower bounds in the progressive hedging algorithm (PHA)
for two-stage and multi-stage stochastic mixed-integer programs. Computing lower …

This chapter presents nine case studies in which school students engage in challenging
mathematics outside their immediate classroom environment. In each case, students are …