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Binge Eating Disorder: A 5-Year Retrospective Study on Experimental Drugs
No full textMichelle N Levitan,1,2 Marcelo Papelbaum,2 Mauro G Carta,3 Jose C Appolinario,1 Antonio E Nardi1 1Psychiatry Institute/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2Eating Disorders Department/Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel; 3Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Sanità Pubblica, Università Degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, ItalyCorrespondence: Michelle N Levitan Email [email protected]: Binge eating disorder (BED) affects a significant rate of the general population causing a negative impact on their quality of life, weight, and self-esteem. Besides psychological treatments that compose the majority of the studies, pharmaceuticals have contributed to improve a host of clinical parameters, thus being an important component of the treatment. We opted to target the latest results by performing a review of the literature on the pharmacology for BED from the last 5 years. To achieve this goal, the terms: “binge eating disorder” and “treatment” were added to the PubMed database and the website clinicaltrials.gov. At least five drugs were either being tested or had already been recognized to improve BED symptoms – although only lisdexamfetamine is currently approved by the FDA to treat this condition. However, due to a better understanding of BED psychopathology in the last decade, it is notorious that improvement of eating-related symptoms is not the only desired target. Due to the significant comorbidity percentage (30%), weight loss is highly pursued, as well as the amelioration of clinical parameters which highlights the importance of having new agents combining both objectives.Keywords: binge eating disorder, treatment, pharmacological treatmen
Life Cycle of Agricultural Plastic Film
No full textLife-cycle flow chart.Flow chart illustrating the cradle-to-cradle life cycle of recycled agricultural plastics vs other end-of-life options. Revised from an earlier version published in Levitan, Cox and Clarvoe, 2005, Agricultural Plastic Film Recycling: Feasibility and Options in the Central Leatherstocking-Upper Catskill Region of New York Stat
Museum of Isaac Levitan
No full textInteriorSecond floor apartment of Isaac Levitan furnished as it was when he lived there in the 1880's
Museum of Isaac Levitan
No full textInteriorSecond floor apartment of Isaac Levitan furnished as it was when he lived there in the 1880's
Museum of Isaac Levitan
No full textMuseum of the artist Isaac Levitan, who lived in the house in the 1880's. His bust is in the right foreground
Inverse scattering designs of dispersion-engineered single-mode planar waveguides
No full textWe use an inverse-scattering (IS) approach to design single-mode waveguides with controlled linear and higher-order dispersion. The technique is based on a numerical solution to the Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko integral equation, for the inversion of rational reflection coefficients with arbitrarily large number of leaky poles. We show that common features of dispersion-engineered waveguides such as trenches, rings and oscillations in the refractive index profile come naturally from the IS algorithm without any a priori assumptions. Increasing the leaky-pole number increases the dispersion map granularity and allows design of waveguides with identical low order and differing higher order dispersion coefficients
Appendix C. Reconciling Vance (1973a, b) and Levitan (2000).
No full textReconciling Vance (1973a, b) and Levitan (2000)
Extending visual dominance over touch for input off the body
No full textHartcher O'Brien J, Levitan CA, Spence CJ. Extending visual dominance over touch for input off the body. Brain Research. 2011;1362:48-55
New York State's Recycling Agricultural Plastics Project (RAPP): Hurdles and High Points
No full textThe Northeast United States supports a vibrant and diversified agriculture that generates lots of different types of plastic waste.
This presentation focuses on logistical decision points in developing a sustainable recycling infrastructure and viable recycling markets suited for agriculture and non-organic agricultural wastes.
The Recycling Agricultural Plastics Project (RAPP) is a Cornell University initiative working in collaboration with agricultural producers, and with organizations, agencies and businesses that support agriculture, environmental protection, regional economic development and recycling
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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