Stability of the factorial structure of metabolic syndrome from childhood to adolescence : a 6-year follow-up study

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors that is considered a predictor of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and mortality. There is no consistent evidence on whether the MS construct works in the same way in different populations and at different stages in life. Methods: We used confirmatory factor analysis to examine if a single-factor-model including waist circumference, triglycerides/HDL-c, insulin and mean arterial pressure underlies metabolic syndrome from the childhood to adolescence in a 6-years follow-up study in 174 Swedish and 460 Estonian children aged 9 years at baseline. Indeed, we analyze the tracking of a previously validated MS index over this 6-years period. Results: The estimates of goodness-of-fit for the single-factor-model underlying MS were acceptable both in children and adolescents. The construct stability of a new model including the differences from baseline to the end of the follow-up in the components of the proposed model displayed good fit indexes for the change, supporting the hypothesis of a single factor underlying MS component trends. Conclusions: A single-factor-model underlying MS is stable across the puberty in both Estonian and Swedish young people. The MS index tracks acceptably from childhood to adolescence.

Validity of Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations before and after an Energy-Restricted Diet Intervention in Obese Women

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Sentence comprehension before and after 1970: Topics, debates and techniques

[EN] Language Down the Garden Path traces the lines of research that grew out of Bever's classic paper. Leading scientists review over 40 years of debates on the factors at play in language comprehension, production, and acquisition (the role of prediction, grammar, working memory, prosody, abstractness, syntax and semantics mapping); the current status of universals and narrow syntax; and virtually every topic relevant in psycholinguistics since 1970. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book will appeal to all those interested in understanding the questions that shaped, and are still shaping, this field and the ways in which linguists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists are seeking to answer them.

A new solution for the roommate problem: The Q-stable matchings

The aim of this paper is to propose a new solution for the roommate problem with strict preferences. We introduce the solution of maximum irreversibility and consider almost stable matchings (Abraham et al. [2])and maximum stable matchings (Ta [30] [32]). We find that almost stable matchings are incompatible with the other two solutions. Hence, to solve the roommate problem we propose matchings that lie at the intersection of the maximum irreversible matchings and maximum stable matchings, which are called Q-stable matchings. These matchings are core consistent and we offer an effi cient algorithm for computing one of them. The outcome of the algorithm belongs to an absorbing set.

Cuantificación de la carga interna en jóvenes futbolistas de élite

Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio es analizar los diferentes métodos existentes para la cuantificación de la carga interna (CI) en el fútbol y estudiar las diferencias existentes en la CI en jóvenes jugadores élite de fútbol dependiendo de las características de las sesiones, equipo y puestos. Métodos: Se obtuvo la carga percibida, y la frecuencia cardiaca de 36 jóvenes jugadores élite (18,87 ± 1,24 años, masa:70,81 ± 5,62 kg) de las sesiones de entrenamiento realizadas durante tres semanas. Resultados: Las correlación encontrada entre el método de Edwards-TL y Stagno-TL fue de r=0,921 ± 0,126 entre Edwards-TL y el método de Foster r=0,47 ± 0,343 y entre el método de Stagno-TL y el método de Foster fue de r=0,451 ± 0,386. Los distintos indicadores, sRPE, Edwards-TL y Stagno-TL describen una CI similar en los diferentes tipos de sesión analizadas (Recuperación, Simulación, Resistencia, Fuerza y Velocidad) aunque no siempre coincidían. Siendo la sesión denominada Resistencia la que acumulaba más CI (172,68 ± 47,87; 76,01 ± 28,62y 445,49 ± 115,02 AU; Edwards-TL, Stagno-TL y Foster respectivamente). No se encontraron diferencias significativas en la CI dependiendo de los puestos jugadores, y solo se encontraron diferencias significativas entre los jugadores más veteranos y jóvenes en la carga percibida. Conclusiones: Los diferentes tipos de sesión suponen una CI diferente para los jugadores. Las diferencias existentes entre los tipos de sesión varían dependiendo del método de cuantificación utilizado. Los indicadores de CI basados en la FC y en la carga percibida no siempre pueden ser intercambiables y pueden aportar información distinta a los técnicos.

Development of the heterogeneous catalysts for the production of levulinic acid from furfuryl alcohol

207 p.