Cholesterol lowering effect of a soy drink enriched with plant sterols in a French population with moderate hypercholesterolemia

Abstract Background Plant sterols are an established non-pharmacological means to reduce total and LDL blood cholesterol concentrations and are therefore recommended for cholesterol management by worldwide-renown health care institutions.Their efficacy has been proven in many types of foods with the majority of trials conducted in spreads or dairy

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A quantitative identification method based on CWT and CNN for external and inner broken wires of steel wire ropes

The detection of broken wires in steel wire ropes is of great significance for the production safety.However, the existing identification techniques mainly focus on the external broken wires problem.Here, the artificial feature extraction is one of the most important method, while only the prior knowledge of the artificial feature extraction method

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Development of a High Precision Telescopic Instrument Based on Simultaneous Laser Multilateration for Machine Tool Volumetric Verification

This paper presents the design of a high precision telescopic system consisting in three lines, with measuring principle based on simultaneous laser multilateration.The system offers the high precision of the interferometer systems and allows the autonomous tracking of a sphere joined to the spindle nose of the machine tool by simultaneous contact

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