Objective: to examine the clinical evidence reporting the prevalence of sarcopenia and the
effect of nutrition and exercise interventions from studies using the consensus definition of …

This study reviews several problems which are specific of composites with periodic
microstructure composed of linear or nonlinear constituents. The theoretical background of the …

Background In Europe cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 3.9 million deaths (45%
of deaths), being ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension (leading to heart failure) …

The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) developed a
practical clinical definition and consensus diagnostic criteria for age-related sarcopenia. …

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed.
Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the …

Daily numbers of deaths at a regional level were collected in 16 European countries.
Summer mortality was analyzed for the reference period 1998–2002 and for 2003. More than …

Although populations around the world are rapidly ageing, evidence that increasing longevity
is being accompanied by an extended period of good health is scarce. A coherent and …

This book treats cavitation, which is a unique phenomenon in the field of hyd-dynamics,
although it can occur in any hydraulic machinery such as pumps, propellers, artificial hearts, and …

On its original publication, this book provided the first elementary treatment of representation
theory of finite groups of Lie type in book form. This second edition features new material to …

The recruitment of monocytes via the endothelial expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1
(VCAM-1) is a key step in the formation of the initial lesion in atherosclerosis. Because …