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Open AccessPassive and active roles of fat-free mass in the control of energy intake and body composition regulation
While putative feedback signals arising from adipose tissue are commonly assumed to provide the molecular links between the body’s long-term energy requirements and energy intake, the available evidence sugges...
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Robust design of Si/Si3N4 high contrast grating mirror for mid-infrared VCSEL application
A Si/Si3N4 high contrast grating mirror has been designed for a VCSEL integration in mid-infrared (λ = 2.65 μm). The use of an optimization algorithm which maximizes a VCSEL mirror quality factor allowed the adju...
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Optimized sub-wavelength grating mirror design for mid-infrared wavelength range
Several designs of sub-wavelength grating mirrors adapted to mid-infrared operation are reported with several percents of tolerance for the grating fabrication. These designs have been automatically optimized ...
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Low Temperature Transparent ITO-based Contacts for Mid-IR Applications
In this work, thin films of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)-based materials were tested as potential candidates for mid-IR transparent contacts on Te-doped GaSb and Si-doped InAs semiconductor wafers. Since these conta...
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Body composition phenotypes in pathways to obesity and the metabolic syndrome
Dynamic changes in body weight have long been recognized as important indicators of risk for debilitating diseases. While weight loss or impaired growth can lead to muscle wastage, as well as to susceptibility...
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The thrifty ‘catch-up fat’ phenotype: its impact on insulin sensitivity during growth trajectories to obesity and metabolic syndrome
The analyses of large epidemiological databases have suggested that infants and children who show catch-up growth, or adiposity rebound at a younger age, are predisposed to the development of obesity, type 2 d...
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Open AccessLong-term outcome of radiological-guided insertion of implanted central venous access port devices (CVAPD) for the delivery of chemotherapy in cancer patients: institutional experience and review of the literature
Central venous access port devices (CVAPD) are necessary for delivery of prolonged infusional chemotherapy or in patients with poor peripheral venous access. Previous studies of Hickman catheters report compli...
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Pathways from weight fluctuations to metabolic diseases: focus on maladaptive thermogenesis during catch-up fat
It has long been known that obesity is a high risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. In more recent years, the analysis of several large epidemiological databases has also revealed that, independently of exc...
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An adipose-specific control of thermogenesis in body weight regulation
Much of our understanding about ‘adaptive thermogenesis’ as a control system in mammalian weight regulation derives from studies of experimental starvation and overfeeding, and these have served to characteriz...
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Low-protein overfeeding: a tool to unmask susceptibility to obesity in humans
In search for an approach to identify physiological targets for therapeutic intervention in obesity management, we have revisited the classic human overfeeding studies of the 1960s, with new emphasis on a ‘sub...
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Design, modelling and implementation of the ATMOS project fibre delay line photonic switching matrix
This paper presents the fibre delay line switching matrix, a high-performance photonic system consisting of an electrically controlled optical high-speed transport network. This photonic matrix adopts the asyn...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Spectral Bistability in Multielectrode DFB Lasers
We report the bistable behaviour of tunable multi-electrode InGaAsP DFB lasers under the conditions of electrically- and optically-controlled longitudinal mode hop**.