Search results for "classes"

Effect of dietary interventions during weaning period on parental practice and lipoproteins and vitamin D status in two-year-old children

2016

ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate if a two-day course for parents on nutrition and applied baby food preparation had an effect on child’s intake of home-made foods, lipid concentration, and vitamin D status. Design: Randomized controlled trial at age 6 months and follow-up at ages 15 and 24 months. Setting: Four health care clinics in Kristiansand, Norway. Subjects: Thirty-nine pairs of 6-month-old children and their parents in the intervention group and 20 pairs in the control group. Results: At age 15 months, the intervention group had lower intakes of ready-made porridge (2.0 vs. 5.8 servings per week (p < 0.05)), lower intake of canned baby food (2.9 vs. 6.3 servings per week (p < 0.05)) and…

Bergamot reduces plasma lipids, atherogenic small dense LDL, and subclinical atherosclerosis in subjects with moderate hypercholesterolemia: A 6 mont…

2016

Background: Some patients experience statin-induced side effects or prefer nutraceutical approaches for the treatment of dyslipidemia. This has led to a search for alternative therapeutic approaches for dyslipidemia management. In recent studies Citrus bergamia (known as Bergamot) juice was able to reduce serum levels of lipids. Such benefit may be attributed to high amounts of flavonoids contained in Bergamot fruit juice (neoeriocitrin, neohesperidin, naringin). The aim of the present study was to fully investigate the effects of a Bergamot extract on cardio-metabolic parameters, including plasma lipids, atherogenic lipoproteins and subclinical atherosclerosis. Methods: Eighty subjects (42…

Metabolic disorders and inflammation are associated with familial combined hyperlipemia

2019

Background: Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia (FCH) is related to different metabolic disorders. The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of alterations of hydrocarbonated metabolism and lipid profile together with inflammatory and adhesion molecules in subjects with FCH compared to controls. Methods: 75 HFC patients and 75 healthy individuals were studied. Glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR index and lipid parameters, in addition to anti-oxidized LDL antibodies (Anti ox-LDL), small and dense LDL (sdLDL) and HDL subfractions, proinflammatory cytokines and adhesion molecules were measured. Results: FCH patients showed higher levels of hydrocarbonated metabolism parameters, total choles…

Serum low density lipoprotein subclasses in asthma

2013

Summary Background The levels of serum low-density lipoproteins (LDL) have been implicated in the inflammatory cascade in a murine model of asthma. Recent findings suggest that LDL may modulate the inflammatory state of the asthmatic airways in humans. Objective We explored whether LDL subclasses are associated with the occurrence and severity of asthma. Methods 24 asthmatics (M/F: 11/13) and 24 healthy individuals, with normal BMI and absence of metabolic syndrome, matched for age and gender. Serum concentrations of LDL subclasses were distributed as seven bands (LDL-1 and -2 defined as large, least pro-inflammatory LDL, and LDL-3 to −7 defined as small, most pro-inflammatory LDL), using t…

Rationality and normal 2-complements

2008

Abstract We study the finite groups in which every irreducible rational valued character is linear, and those in which every rational element is central.

Products of pairwise totally permutable groups

2003

[EN] In this paper finite groups factorized as products of pairwise totally permutable subgroups are studied in the framework of Fitting classes

Processi cognitivi e soluzioni di problemi matematici con studenti italiani e cinesi

2012

To compare cognitive processes adopted by students with different cultures in solving mathematical problems we have to focus on the Math epistemology through a cultural analysis concerning the fundamental elements of the students different cultural traditions and the philosophical, logic and linguistic bases subtended to the mathematical thought and its historical evolution. The paper describes this theoretical framework, emphasizing a possible comparison between different cognitive styles and mathematical problem solutions in the context of arithmetic and Algebraic thought of Italian and Chinese students in multicultural classes.

BIM Modelling of Ancient Buildings

2018

In the last years, new procedures on design and management of constructions, based on 3D standardised models of building elements, have been proposed. It’s the case of Building Information Modelling (BIM) applications, that, differently from CAD ones, allow to work with libraries of 3D parametrical objects (smart objects) describing geometric, structural and material properties of building elements. This methodology is based on the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model, that represents a global standard for the building data exchange. Initially used for the design of new architectures, BIM methodology has been even more considered also for the management and the conservation of historical…

Atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype and LDL size and subclasses in patients with growth hormone deficiency before and after short-term replacement ther…

2007

Affirmative action in India: redistribuzione di beni e creazione di identità

2009

L’India è probabilmente lo stato in cui l’affirmative action riguarda la più ampia percentuale di popolazione e i più svariati ambiti della vita pubblica; inoltre le prime forme di agevolazione di gruppi svantaggiati previste dal governo risalgono ad oltre 130 anni fa. La reservation policy (il nome con cui in India vengono chiamate le azioni positive) è argomento ricorrente del dibattito pubblico: tema eminente di ogni programma elettorale, influisce fortemente nella costituzione della base dei partiti e nella scelta dei rappresentanti, è contestata o invocata in molte battaglie politiche e in numerosi conflitti sociali che agitano il paese. Ha contribuito fortemente a profilare le identit…