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The reasons that families choose to give birth to their babies at home are wide ranging. For some it's about avoiding unnecessary intervention or guaranteeing the availability of a birth pool and for others it's about being in their own environment surrounded by the things and people they love. Having midwives who once at your home are solely focused on you and will not need to care for other women as they would in other settings can be an attractive prospect too. Arguably one of the most important reasons is because home is where the birthing woman believes she will feel safest and most relaxed. When a woman labours in an oxytocin friendly environment, birth is better able to follow its normal physiological path. Research has shown that for the majority of women home birth is as safe as hospital and in some cases safer as it decreases the likelihood of unnecessary interventions. A recent study also showed a reduced risk of postpartum haemorrhage for those planning a home birth.
A large study in 2011 concluded that giving birth in the UK is very safe regardless of where you plan to have your baby. For second and subsequent babies a planned home birth is as safe as birthing in a midwife led unit (also known as a 'birth centre') or a consultant led unit in a hospital. For first time mums planning a home birth the risks are slightly increased but still very small – increasing from around 0.5% to just under 1%. Significantly more first time mums will transfer in to hospital from a midwife led unit or home but this will include transferring at maternal request ie for pain relief options not available at home and is not always due to complications. Around 10% of women having a second or subsequent baby will transfer in. Women transferring in to hospital from home are still more likely to achieve a 'normal birth' once there.
When considering where you would like to give birth, you should feel able to trust your care providers and feel confident and comfortable discussing your individual needs with them. There are some genuine reasons for recommending a hospital birth but your choice of a homebirth should not be affected by reluctance on the part of your midwife, doctor or the local maternity services management. GPs may decline but midwives when called, must attend a labouring woman, where ever she decides to give birth, regardless of advice to the contrary.
A recent case brought to the European Court of Human Rights saw a ruling passed down that under 'the right to private life and the right to non-discrimination' women have the right to choose the circumstances in which they give birth and under the European Convetion on Human Rights, the state has an obligation to facilitate that choice.
It's important to remember that what ever your reasons and what ever your particular circumstances, you have the right to make decisions about your body and it is ultimately your decision to make.
Further useful links.
Homebirthers & Hopefuls Summary Analysis of The Birth Place Study
NCT analysis of the Birthplace Study
Home birth complications 'less common' than hospital: 2013 study
Birthrights.org.uk – advice and support on UK women's rights in pregnancy and childbirth
Natural homebirth – not just for hippies!


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Eymann plates career-high eight in slugfest
Reds farmhand lines three doubles in Lookouts' 17-11win over M-Braves
May 18, 2008 3:05 PM ET
Eymann went 3-for-5 and drove in a career-high eight runs to power the Lookouts in a 17-11 slugfest win over the visiting Mississippi Braves.
"It felt great," said Eymann, who added that he wanted that his career night made up for him lining out with the bases loaded Saturday. "Just getting the opportunity to hit with the bases loaded twice, it doesn't come very often. I was able to take advantage of that."
The Reds prospect entered the game batting .237 with eight RBIs in 97 at-bats over 33 games this season. He hit three-run doubles in consecutive at-bats in the third and fourth innings and added a two-RBI double in his fourth plate appearance in the sixth to fall one shy of the Southern League record.
"My teammates kept getting on base," he said. "I had the opportunities and the confidence to get them in."
Eymann has had little to complain about lately. The Kansas State product entered the game batting .290 in his previous 10 games. The hot streak came after enduring a 10-game stretch from April 19-30 in which he did not drive in any runs. On Sunday, he couldn't stop sending teammates around the bases, and they made sure he knew it.
"After the second [double], some of the guys were saying 'Man, you just doubled your RBI total on the season,' and I said, 'No, I have eight, don't play it out like that,'" he laughed.
After officially doubling his RBI total in the sixth, he really started hearing the side comments.
"I went up there and thought, 'Oh man, let's try to get these,' and they were giving me some heck about it," Eymann said.
It was the third baseman's biggest offensive output in almost exactly a year. He homered twice and drove in three runs for Class A Advanced Sarasota last May 19, the only multi-homer performance of his career.
"I've been swinging the bat well lately, so it makes me feel better, everything is starting to come to fruition," Eynmann said. "I was able to come through."
The eight-RBI performance was easily a career best. He never had more than two RBIs in 119 games for Class A Dayton in 2006. He drove in three runs on four occasions last season.
After striking out in the second, Eymann found himself up with the bases loaded and two outs in the third.
"I think I had two strikes on me, so I was looking to see a pitch and just drive it," said Eymann, who then doubled to center to plate Justin Turner, Tonys Gutierrez and Sean Henry. "Just wanted to put the ball in play, put a good swing on a good pitch. I got a pretty good pitch to handle."
An inning later, he found himself in the exact same situation.
"The second one, I was coaxing myself into not thinking about the first time," Eymann said. "I tried focusing on every pitch and just getting another ball to drive. I think it was a slider."
His second two-out double drove in Turner, Chris Valaika and Gutierrez to put the Lookouts ahead, 12-7. His third double in the sixth plated Gutierrez and Henry again for a 14-7 advantage.
"I was trying to sit back, just stay back and use my hands instead of getting too eager," he said. "Going up with confidence and knowing I can help the team, it feels pretty good. And it gives your teammates confidence too."
Only four players have ever driven in nine runs in a game in Southern League history. Jose Canseco managed the feat on June 24, 1985 and Butch Garcia was the last to do so on Aug. 4, 1989. Eymann, Cincinnati's 19th-round pick in 2005, has steadily scaled the Reds' Minor League system since breaking in with Rookie-level Billings in '05. The University of Illinois product hit .238 with 42 RBIs for Dayton in '06 and batted .246 with 53 RBIs for Class A Advanced Sarasota last summer.
"You just have to stay focused and in it," he said. "Take every at-bat as it comes." Eymann's confidence seemed to spread all around the ballpark -- the clubs combined for 31 hits.
Cody Strait went 3-for-5 with three RBIs, Craig Tatum drove in two runs and Shaun Cumberland clubbed a two-run homer in the third for Chattanooga (23-21). Robert Manuel (2-0) hurled three scoreless innings of relief for the win after Chattanooga starter James Avery was slammed for seven runs in four innings.
Van Pope hit a three-run homer and Jason Perry knocked in three runs for the Braves (16-28). Mississippi starter Thomas Hanson (1-1), the first of five pitchers used, allowed eight runs on five hits in 2 2/3 innings for the loss.
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The inventor of the Lambeau Leap has a unique take on the Packers' transition from future Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre to Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers.
LeRoy Butler, a popular defensive back with the Packers from 1990-2001, played with Favre and helped Green Bay go to consecutive Super Bowls in the late '9os, winning Super Bowl XXXI after the 1996-97 season. The title was the Packers' first since Super Bowl II and completed a return to prominence that started with the hiring of coach Mike Holmgren in 1992 and the subsequent additions of Favre and Hall of Fame defensive lineman Reggie White.
Sunday's defeat of the Steelers gives Rodgers as many rings as Favre and vindicates an organization that took a risk in handing over the reins of the franchise to a then-unproven QB in 2008. In a radio appearance on WSSP's The Big Show in Milwaukee Tuesday, Butler likened the changing of the guard to a family situation:
"We're all one big family and we're happy for one another. I liken it, again, to if you've been through a divorce and you've been with your wife for 16 years and you love her and you've got five kids from her. When you divorce, you've got a new wife coming in and three of those kids may not even accept this young lady, but they're going to have to."
Perhaps nobody is happier at the fans' and team's acceptance of Rodgers and its success than Packers GM Ted Thompson, who faced the brunt of the criticism for parting with Favre. Thompson, like Rodgers, has also won over Butler.
"I trust whatever he does, and if you don't right now, what is it going to take?"
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Lombardi slotted past David Hay from five yards to open the scoring in the 57th minute.
The Division's top scorer Liam Buchanan looked certain to equalise after 71 minutes but his shot from close range was blocked by Sandy Wood.
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Forfar: Wood, A Trialist (Fraser 88), King, Allison, Lumsden, Coyle, B Trialist, Tade, Tosh, Gribben, Lombardi.
Subs Not Used: Lynn, Donald, Moon. Booked: Gribben.
Goals: Lombardi 57, Gribben 80.
Cowdenbeath: Hay, Baxter, McBride (Dalziel 77), Lennon, Hill, Hannah, Fusco, Fotheringham (Weir 25), Buchanan, Clarke, Patrick Scullion (A Trialist 59). Subs Not Used: Fyfe, Allison.
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The Real Madrid superstar has been struggling with both tendonitis and a thigh problem but he is set to play some part in the game against Martin O'Neill's men
Cristiano Ronaldo is in contention to make his return for Portugal as they conclude their World Cup preparations versus Republic of Ireland.
The Real Madrid attacker has missed Portugal's last two warm-up games, against Greece and Mexico, because of knee and thigh injuries that hampered his involvement in his club's end-of-season run-in.
But the 29-year-old, who helped Madrid to Champions League glory last month, returned to training last Friday and will be hopeful of gaining some match practice before the tournament gets under way on Thursday.
And his prospective comeback will come as a timely boost for Paulo Bento's men, who will look to build momentum ahead of a daunting World Cup opener with Germany a week on Monday.
However, Portugal may have to cope without midfielder Raul Meireles because of a muscular problem, while defender Pepe is continuing his recovery from a leg injury.
Portugal have been unconvincing in each of their previous two games, playing out a dour 0-0 draw with Greece before beating Mexico 1-0 on Friday thanks to an injury-time effort from defender Bruno Alves.
Bento will want his team to produce a much better display on Tuesday against an Ireland side rebuilding ahead of their qualification campaign for Euro 2016.
Ireland are winless in their last five matches under coach Martin O'Neill, but should head into the encounter at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with confidence following decent results against World Cup participants.
O'Neill's men held four-time winners Italy to a 0-0 draw late last month and claimed a 1-1 stalemate against Costa Rica on Saturday.
Portugal, who have been drawn alongside Ghana and United States as well as Germany in Group G, will expect a stern test from Ireland, and Bento is eager for his side to use the game to eliminate the errors in their play before the start of the World Cup.
"It's going to be a balanced group with four strong teams so it's going to be very difficult for us," Bento said after the win over Mexico.
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I love to see women who are comfortable and confident in their skin despite being a different size or shape than what our society markets as the ideal. I love seeing a woman who doesn't lose her confidence or her great smile just because she has a blemish.
I don't think we see enough of real women's bodies (shapes, sizes, blemishes) in a positive context. Even amongst friends, we often hide what we think are our imperfections. I think that if we were exposed to more of what is real and natural, we would all be more comfortable and confident with ourselves
The women who participated in this project are women in my life who I find beautiful and who I knew would want to speak out on this topic. I invited many more women than are seen here (of various ethnicities, ages, and sizes) but not all of the women were available to participate. There were a few women who declined because they didn't feel comfortable with their bodies. I don't blame them. Society has not made it easy for us to step out into the world just as we are.
My hope for this project is that it will play a part in advancing a much bigger movement that is helping women to accept and be kind to their bodies. I don't want any woman to miss out on experiences because she is ashamed of her body – whether that means going to the beach in a bathing suit or smiling at someone she finds attractive.
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AHBA a fifty year Saudi owned company in Sudan that specializes in aviation services and aircraft handling is undertaking a massive capital investment worth close to SR2,500,000 in equipment upgrades, modernization, employee hiring, training and the enhancement of its service offerings which has been proceeding apace for the past two years. This was announced by Sheikh Mahmoud Ibrahim Zahran, Chairman of the Board of AHBA.
Sheikh Mahmoud, further added, "As the oldest and most well established aviation services company in Sudan that is still in operation since 1955 we have handled all the major airlines who have landed or continue to land at Khartoum International Airport, and this is due to our strength as we are able to harness the wealth of our experience, modern technology and our human resources while keeping in mind our client's individual needs."
On the other hand, Mr. Ibrahim Mohamed Zahran, AHBA Board Member and Director of Business Development at AHBA added, "As peace began to dawn on Sudan we as a company and in consultation with the Zahran Family have decided to undertake this SR2.5 million capital investment in order to provide our clients with the services that they require, and allow AHBA to return to the roots of excellence that were instilled by my late grandfather Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail Zahran who founded AHBA's predecessor, Zahran Aviation Services in 1955."
AHBA, with 230 fully trained employees, more than 2,300 square meters of cargo storage space inside the airport, a completely refurbished, upgraded workshop, provides comprehensive services which include counter check-in, boarding services, baggage handling, assisting passenger with special needs, Load Control, ramp equipment coordination, A/C cleaning, safety, technical assistance, cargo acceptance, warehousing handling and delivery.
AHBA is one of the business units of Airhandling & Booking Agency which was established in 1965 by Sheikh Ibrahim Zahran (85% share) and Mr. Mohamed Abdel Kareem Abbas (15% share), which was in turn the successor to Zahran Travel Services which was founded in 1955 by the late Sheikh Ibrahim.
AHBA's historical and present clients are; Saudi Arabian Airlines (1954 – 1971), when Saudi Arabian Airlines established their own operations in Sudan, Lufthansa has been an AHBA client since 1975, DAS Air Cargo, KLM (due to resume its association with AHBA in Q1, 2005), SAS, Alitalia, Air France – until they stopped landing in Sudan due to past economic and political reasons. In addition to being GSA for SABENA, and Emirates worked with AHBA for two years when they began operations in Sudan.
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Muthoot Fincorp Limited (MFL) – Flagship Company of the Muthoot Pappachan Group is a finance company catering to the financial needs of retail and institutional customers. Established in 1997, it is registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a systemically important non-deposit taking Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) with a paid up capital of Rs 62.5 crores and a Net Owned Fund of Rs 461.6 crores as on 31.03.2011.
MFL has its focus on providing a host of financial services through a wide network of over 1,254 branches pan India. It has a diverse mix of retail offerings in the areas of consumer loan products and investment advisory services. These include Gold loans, Home loans, Auto loans, Business loans, Loans against Property, Investment products and Advisory Services.
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Muthoot Fincorp Ltd (MFL) is part of the Muthoot Capital Services Ltd (MCSL) is controlled by the Muthoot Pappachan group. Muthoot Pappachan group's main business is financing against gold. Gold financing, contributes over 95% of the MFL-MCSL combine's total income. Apart from the above, MFL also engages in extending loans for two-wheelers, business, and micro-finance, but the income from these segments is niche over the medium term.
Moreover, the MFL-MSCL operations are highly concentrated in Kerala and Tamil Nadu; with both these states accounting for about 85% of its total AUM (Assets Under Management).
Thus, in order to augment the working capital requirement of the company and for general corporate purposes, MFL proposes to mobilise through private placement of unlisted secured Non Convertible Redeemable Debentures (NCD) of face value of Rs 10,000 each at par aggregating upto Rs 25 Crores with a greenshoe option of Rs 10 crores.
The details of the offering (NCD) are as follows:
*The issuer would have the right to pre-close the issue or extend the closing date by giving one day notice to the arranger.
Note: PAN card is mandatory for subscribing to these bonds. A self attested copy shall be enclosed along with the application form.
Investors' will have the only under-mentioned option available, wherein the interest would be defrayed to them on an annual basis, thus enabling them to enjoy a pre-tax yield of 11.75% at maturity.
(Source: Muthoot Fincorp Ltd. & PersonalFN Research)
It is noteworthy that your investment in MFL's NCD will not make it eligible for tax deduction under chapter VI-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Also, the interest received from debentures will be deducted at source by the company (MFL). However, if you are desirous of claiming exemption from deduction of income tax at source on the interest payable on debentures you need to submit tax exemption certificate/ document, as per Section 193 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, if any, at the Registered Office of the Company, at least 45 days before the due date of payment.
In our opinion though the interest rates offered are lucrative along with the rating being "stable", one needs to check the post tax yield generated by the debentures. Moreover, the investment does not incentivise any tax savings.
Moreover, the following factors dither a big ticket investment of Rs 1,00,000 (minimum investment amount)
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By Brian Winter, Susan Page and Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
So this is what a "3 a.m. moment" looks like.
The underground explosion, which the Russian government said was about as big as the blast that leveled
That will be difficult, analysts say. It's not clear what else can be done to punish North Korea. Its government already faces a range of economic sanctions that have helped make it one of the world's most isolated and impoverished countries. Its reclusive leader,
"This is going to be a big challenge over the course of this administration," says Michael Green, who was in charge of Asian affairs for the National Security Council (NSC) during the Bush administration. "There's not a list of good options.
"We're talking about a country with over a million soldiers, enough nuclear fissile material for six to 10 bombs, chemical and biological weapons. And if it becomes unstable or starts unraveling, it's not a crisis you can manage part time," says Green, who is now a professor at
North Korea's nuclear test was followed by the test-firing of three short-range, ground-to-air missiles, the
The actions came just five days after a missile test by
That's just what Secretary of State
As the vice presidential nominee, Biden said last October that U.S. enemies would "test the mettle" of Obama during the first six months of his presidency.
"It's not a coincidence that this is happening early in the administration," says
Feaver says that until now, Obama has been primarily occupied with "front-burner" national security issues such as the wars in
Both countries are facing potentially volatile transitions of leadership. Kim has been ill for months and rarely seen in public, while Iranian President
"I think North Korea and Iran are very closely comparing strategies," Green says. "And whether the moves were coordinated or not, they are watching how the U.S. responds to each."
Mullen told
Questions surround test
The exact strength of Monday's nuclear test is unclear.
While the test may mark a significant upgrade in North Korea's technology, it is still several steps from being able to use a nuclear weapon against its neighbors, much less the United States.
An attempt by North Korea in April to test a long-range missile was a failure,
However, North Korea's mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle means it can sell its expertise to other states that are seeking to make plutonium for weapons — something the Bush administration accused it of doing with
Even without a nuclear weapon, North Korea is a potentially scary foe. Its midrange missiles are capable of hitting all of South Korea, where roughly 28,000 U.S. troops are stationed. The military journal Jane's Defence estimates the North could hit South Korea's capital,
Any act of military aggression by the North would elicit an overwhelming response from the U.S. and its allies — a Cold War-type of stalemate that has been enough of a deterrent to maintain peace on the
"They believe there is no point in even pretending to give up nuclear weapons," Foster-Carter says. An observer of North Korea for more than 40 years, he admits he finds the motivation behind the test to be a "real puzzle.
"You wonder how they think in
An unpredictable regime
Past attempts to negotiate with the North Korean regime have fallen into a frustrating pattern in which landmark deals are seemingly reached, only to fall apart soon thereafter — often with no logical explanation.
After pursuing a tough stance during his first term, President Bush shifted to a more diplomatic approach toward the end of his presidency. Last October, his administration removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in return for a commitment by Kim's government to end its nuclear weapons program — a deal that has collapsed.
Kim's regime sees the nuclear program as its best bargaining chip to ensure its long-term survival, says
The North Korean regime's already deep isolation makes it difficult for Obama to punish it with further sanctions. A U.N. resolution passed shortly after the country's nuclear test in 2006 imposed tough restrictions on arms and money transfers. Any goods coming from South Korea are closely regulated to block the transfer of anything that might be used for military purposes.
Obama's best chance for punishing North Korea might lie in persuading
Shi Yinhong, a professor at People's University in
Ultimately, Shi says, the world may just have to accept North Korea as a nuclear power. The test seeks to "show Obama that he has to treat them as an equal counterpart," Shi says. "In the future, if there is dialogue with the U.S., it will be on a new basis."
MacLeod reported from Beijing; Page from
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Ghrelin is an orexigenic hormone that is implicated in meal initiation, in part because circulating levels rise before meals. Because previous human studies have examined subjects fed on known schedules, the observed preprandial ghrelin increases could have been a secondary consequence of meal anticipation. A causal role for ghrelin in meal initiation would be better supported if preprandial increases occurred before spontaneously initiated meals not prompted by external cues. We measured plasma ghrelin levels among human subjects initiating meals voluntarily without cues related to time or food. Samples were drawn every 5 min between a scheduled lunch and a freely requested dinner, and hunger scores were obtained using visual analog scales. Insulin, glucose, fatty acids, leptin, and triglycerides were also measured. Ghrelin levels decreased shortly after the first meal in all subjects. A subsequent preprandial increase occurred over a wide range of intermeal intervals (IMI; 320–425 min) in all but one subject. Hunger scores and ghrelin levels showed similar temporal profiles and similar relative differences in magnitude between lunch and dinner. One subject displayed no preprandial ghrelin increase and was also the only individual whose insulin levels did not return to baseline between meals. This finding, along with a correlation between area-under-the-curve values of ghrelin and insulin, suggests a role for insulin in ghrelin regulation. The preprandial increase of ghrelin levels that we observed among humans initiating meals voluntarily, without time- or food-related cues, and the overlap between these levels and hunger scores are consistent with a role for ghrelin in meal initiation.
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although mealtime hunger is a common, daily experience, the nature of the molecular determinants underlying this sensation is debated. Ghrelin is a recently discovered enteric peptide hormone that is the only known circulating orexigen and one of very few substances shown to stimulate appetite and food intake when administered to humans (22, 36, 46, 51). Orexigenic actions of ghrelin have been demonstrated after modest-dose peripheral injections that generate approximately physiological blood levels in humans and rodents, suggesting that normal fluctuations in endogenous circulating ghrelin can affect appetite (51, 52). Considerable evidence in multiple species implicates ghrelin in the control of preprandial hunger and meal initiation. Additional evidence suggests that ghrelin may also participate in long-term body-weight regulation, and blockade of ghrelin signaling is actively being explored as a potential anti-obesity modality (13, 14).
The following observations are consistent with the hypothesis that ghrelin contributes to preprandial hunger and meal initiation (12, 14). 1) The greatest amount of ghrelin is produced by the stomach and duodenum, organs that are well positioned to sense the presence or absence of recently ingested food (3, 16, 19, 22, 24). 2) As predicted for a meal initiator, ghrelin levels increase with fasting and are suppressed within minutes by refeeding or enteral infusions of nutrients but not water (3, 46). 3) Exogenous ghrelin stimulates eating when administered at times of minimal spontaneous food intake (4, 36, 46, 53). 4) Ghrelin's orexigenic actions are extremely rapid and short-lived, as required for a signal influencing individual meal-related behavior (4, 36, 46, 53). 5) A detailed analysis of meal patterns after ghrelin injections reveals that the primary orexigenic effect of ghrelin is to decrease the latency to feed, leading to one extra episode of eating that occurs directly after ghrelin administration (17). 6) Ghrelin stimulates gastric motility and acid secretion, both of which increase in anticipation of meals (4, 29). 7) Hypothalamic neurons that cosecrete the orexigenic substances neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein are the most clearly documented targets of ghrelin action in the brain and are implicated in the central control of meal initiation (13, 14). Levels of these neuropeptides increase at times of maximal feeding in rodents, whereas the expression of other neuropeptides involved in energy balance is relatively constant throughout the day and night (25).
Among the most compelling evidence suggesting a role for ghrelin in meal initiation in humans is the observation that circulating levels increase before, and decrease after, every meal (12, 15, 40, 48, 49). Likewise, sheep habituated to various feeding schedules demonstrate preprandial ghrelin surges occurring as many times per day as meals are provided (43, 44). In the studies reporting these findings, however, subjects knew when food was to be served; therefore, it is possible that the preprandial increases in ghrelin levels were part of a cognitive, anticipatory response to upcoming meals. A causal role for ghrelin in meal initiation would be supported more strongly if such increases were observed among individuals initiating meals spontaneously when isolated from external cues related to either time or food, and also if there were a temporal relationship between ghrelin levels and hunger.
In the current study, we sought to determine, with very frequent blood sampling, whether preprandial increases in circulating ghrelin levels occur among human subjects initiating meals voluntarily, in the absence of any time- or food-related cues. We also assessed whether the timing of fluctuations in ghrelin levels in this setting overlaps with that of the subjective sensation of hunger. Because insulin and leptin are strongly involved in the biological cascade of eating behavior and may modulate ghrelin action, these hormones were also evaluated, as were the important fuel substrates glucose, triglycerides, and nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA).
After approval of the procedure by the Ethics Committee in Human Research at Bocage Hospital, subjects were recruited through advertisements posted at the Faculties of Science and Medicine of Dijon. To be included, subjects had to be male, healthy, aged 19–25 yr, and have a body mass index (BMI) between 19 and 25 kg/m2. We excluded smokers, trained athletes, and individuals who drank alcohol more than occasionally, who had food allergies, and who used medication. Subjects were also excluded if they reported a personal or family history of obesity, eating disorders, diabetes, other metabolic diseases, or a change in body weight of >1 kg over the 3 yr preceding the study. All subjects had to have low dietary restraint scores (≤6 out of a possible 18) on the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (42). Candidates were excluded if they reported fear of blood withdrawal or aversion to any of the foods provided in the study. Moreover, subjects had to be accustomed to eating three meals per day, not including any habitual food intake between lunch and dinner. This criterion was not specified to candidates before they recorded all of their food intake on 5-day diary reports, upon which this criterion was verified. The selected subjects all gave written informed consent before the experiment and were financially compensated for completing the study. Characteristics of these individuals are shown in Table 1.
The experimental session was designed to determine, in subjects deprived of cues related to time and food, the temporal pattern of plasma ghrelin concentrations and hunger sensations from the beginning of lunch (provided at a fixed time) to the beginning of dinner (provided when subjects voluntarily requested it).
Body composition.
Body composition was determined by whole body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry using the Hologic QDR 4500 (Hologic, Waltham, MA). Scans were analyzed with Hologic software version 8.07. A Step Phantom calibration was performed daily, as recommended by the manufacturer. After having urinated, subjects were scanned for 5 min in a supine position, wearing only undergarments and no metal objects. The same investigator performed all scans.
On the test day, lunch was a two-course meal, consisting of spaghetti bolognese (17, 34, and 49% of energy derived from protein, fat, and carbohydrate, respectively) and fruit yogurt (14, 17, and 69% of energy derived from protein, fat, and carbohydrate, respectively). Dinner consisted of chicken with rice, vegetables, corn and mushrooms, bread, apple stew (Andros), and biscuits (Palets bretons). All items were served in large portions, and water was provided ad libitum.
Subjective appetite ratings.
Hunger was assessed using 100-mm visual analog scales preceded by the question "Do you feel hungry?" These scales were anchored with "not at all" and "extremely" at the left and right ends, respectively. The distance from the extreme left to the subject's vertical dash represented the rating score, expressed in millimeters. Hunger ratings were determined every 30 min throughout the study, and subjects were unaware of the duration of this interval. Additional measurements were also randomly intercalated to avoid providing any time cues.
Study protocol.
Subjects arrived at the hospital at 1900 on the evening before the study. After consuming an ad libitum dinner, they slept in private bedrooms at the facility. They were awakened at 0800 the following day and were served their usual breakfast, as determined from their home food intake reports. They were allowed to eat as much of this meal as they desired.
After breakfast, subjects were seated in comfortable armchairs and deprived of time cues by exposing them to artificial light only and by removing all sources of visual and auditory time indicators (e.g., clocks, watches, radios, television, telephones, etc.). They were isolated in individual rooms, which were quiet and comfortable enough to allow them to pursue their studies. At 1100, an anesthetic cream (Emla; AstraZeneca) was spread over the area where the catheter was to be inserted to eliminate any pain-induced stress resulting from the puncture. At 1200, the sampling catheter (see below) was inserted in an antecubital vein; blood withdrawal started immediately thereafter and continued uninterrupted throughout the experiment. Lunch was served 30 min after the first blood sample; meal duration was not constrained, to encourage ad libitum intake. Subjects were served sufficient portions to ensure that they were not limited in their spontaneous desire to eat. Before and after consumption, foods were accurately and covertly weighed to determine actual intake. Subjects were instructed to request their next meal whenever they felt hungry enough to do so. Regardless of the time of this request, they were informed that they would not be allowed to leave the center until 2200 to avoid any premature meal requests. Subjects were served dinner when they asked to eat and were again instructed to consume as much as they desired. After they finished this meal, their catheter was withdrawn, and they were asked to guess the time of day. At 2200, they were allowed to leave the center.
Blood sample collection.
Blood was harvested using a specially designed, double-lumen catheter (MTB Medezintechnik, Amstetten, Germany) fitted into a 21-gauge, indwelling cannula in the antecubital vein. This system allowed heparinized blood to be withdrawn continuously throughout study sessions without any heparin being infused in the vein (9). The catheter was heparinized by pumping sterile heparin-saline solution (200 U/ml) via a peristaltic pump at 24 μl/min through the distal lumen of the catheter to the tip of the cannula. The heparinized blood was continuously withdrawn through the proximal lumen of the cannula at 400 μl/min. Blood samples were collected every 5 min. The transit time of this continuous sampling line was ∼10 min, a lag time that was precisely measured for each test in every subject and taken into account for data analysis. Blood samples were immediately centrifuged for 15 min at 2,000 g at 4°C, after which plasma was separated into aliquots and stored at −80°C until being assayed.
Plasma measurements.
Total immunoreactive ghrelin concentration was determined with our modification of a commercial RIA (Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, Belmont, CA). This assay uses a 125I-labeled ghrelin tracer and a rabbit polyclonal antibody against full-length, octanoylated human ghrelin that recognizes the acylated and des-acyl forms. Although only acylated ghrelin is bioactive (22), total ghrelin appears to be a reasonable surrogate for the acylated form because the ratio of the two levels remains constant under a wide variety of conditions that affect ghrelin (2, 34, 35). The lower and upper detection limits were 80 and 2,500 pg/ml, respectively, and the inter- and intra-assay coefficients of variation were 5.9 and 10.3%, respectively.
Insulin concentration was determined by RIA using the SB-INSI-5 kit (7% accuracy, sensitivity of 2 IU/l; CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France). Leptin concentration was determined by RIA using the commercial Sensitive Human Leptin kit (Linco Research, St. Charles, MO). Mean intra- and interassay coefficients of variation were 3.5 and 5.3%, respectively.
Glucose was measured by the glucose oxidase enzymatic method (kit Hycel, Pouilly en Auxois, France). Triglycerides and NEFA were quantified using a colorimetric enzymatic method (kit C, Wako, both 5% accuracy; Oxoïd, Dardilly, France). All substrate measurements were performed with an automat device (Lisa 200).
Statistical analyses were conducted on SYSTAT software (version 7.01; SPSS, Chicago, IL). All results are expressed as means ± SE, except where standard deviations are specified. Areas under the curve (AUC) of substrate and hormone profiles were determined using the trapezoidal method after subtracting the basal AUC from the calculated AUC. Because AUC does not take into account the differences among subjects in duration of the intermeal interval (IMI), a mean value of each blood factor during the IMI was calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the number of tubes. To obtain a common representation of the IMI for all subjects, a time scale based on percentages of IMI was constructed (see Ref. 10 for details). The IMI of each subject was divided into 20 equal intervals, and, for each of these periods, a mean value of the measurements was calculated for every variable. The changes of concentrations were expressed as percent change from the baseline, defined as the mean of three samples taken at 5-min intervals immediately before the beginning of lunch.
The significance of the changes during the IMI (either in minutes or as %IMI) was evaluated by ANOVA for repeated measures. When an interaction with time was found, post hoc analyses were conducted using Scheffé's test.
Pearson's correlations were used to assess relationships between ghrelin levels and anthropometric measures (BMI, fat mass, fat-free mass, and %body fat), behavioral measures (duration of the IMI and energy intake at dinner), and levels of blood factors (insulin, leptin, glucose, NEFA, and triglycerides). Predictive equations were fitted by multivariate linear regression using a backward stepping procedure. Significance was fixed at P < 0.05.
The mean time taken to eat lunch was 20 min (range 17–23), and the mean energy intake at that meal was 3,356 kJ (range 2,558–3,989; Table 2). The mean IMI between the fixed lunch and freely requested dinner was 359 min (range 320–425). The mean guessed time at the point when dinner was requested was 34 ± 5 min (range 15–55 min) later than the actual time (P = 0.005).
Individual subject profiles for ghrelin and other analytes are shown in Fig. 1. Presumably as a continuation of the preprandial rise before lunch, mean ghrelin levels generally increased briefly after the start of this meal, for 21 ± 2 min (an average of 7.5% of lunch-dinner IMI; Fig. 2). Ghrelin levels then began to fall shortly after lunch was consumed in all subjects, and this decline reached statistical significance for the group by 60 min after the start of the meal (P = 0.035). Calculated as percentage of individual IMI, the change from baseline was significant by 22.5% of the IMI (P = 0.021; Fig 2). The trough was reached ∼70 min after the start of lunch, and the nadir was 34.6 ± 8.4% lower than the baseline value. The duration of the trough varied widely across subjects, e.g., from ∼150 min in subject 5 to 250 min in subject 2. A progressive increase was then observed until the voluntary dinner request in all subjects except subject 6. Mean ghrelin levels were no longer different from baseline by 57.5% of the IMI, and they reached an average of 116 ± 15% of trough values at the time when dinner was freely requested (Fig. 2). At this time, mean ghrelin levels were 31.2 ± 19.5% above baseline values, but this difference did not reach significance because of subject 6.
The temporal profiles of mean ghrelin levels and subjective hunger scores overlapped closely with each other throughout the IMI (Fig. 2). This relationship was observed, regardless of the duration of the IMI, in all subjects except subject 6 (Fig. 1). In subjects 1, 2, 4, and 5, the increase in ghrelin levels slightly preceded the increase in hunger scores, whereas the two variables were synchronized in subject 3. It is noteworthy that, in all but subject 6, the differences in ghrelin levels between dinner and lunch mimicked those in hunger scores, i.e., a higher ghrelin level corresponded to a higher hunger score and vice versa. This relationship was particularly evident in subject 5, who displayed considerably lower levels of both ghrelin and hunger before lunch than were observed for both measurements before dinner. The only time throughout the IMI when the mean curves for ghrelin and hunger diverged substantially was shortly after lunch was consumed, during which time appetite scores fell more rapidly from preprandial values than did ghrelin levels (Fig. 2).
To assess a possible role for insulin, glucose, NEFA, leptin, or triglycerides in the variability of ghrelin levels among subjects, concentrations of these hormones and substrates were analyzed in the same manner as was ghrelin (Figs. 1 and 2). Subject 6 displayed two profiles that differed substantially from those of the other subjects, in addition to a markedly different ghrelin profile lacking the usual preprandial increase. This individual's profiles were unusual in that, before dinner, NEFA levels did not increase and insulin levels never reached baseline values after their postlunch peak (Fig. 1). Fatty acid levels also did not increase before dinner in subject 2, who nevertheless showed a robust preprandial ghrelin increase. Thus the failure of insulin levels to reach baseline values during the IMI in subject 6 seems the most parsimonious explanation for the lack of a preprandial rise in this individual's ghrelin levels.
The only association between AUC values for ghrelin and the other measured blood parameters was a negative correlation between ghrelin and insulin AUC (r = −0.814, P = 0.049). We found no correlations between ghrelin AUC and energy intake at lunch, intake at dinner, duration of the IMI, or anthropometric measures. To assess the accuracy of our anthropometric measurements of adiposity, we evaluated the correlation between percent fat mass and leptin levels, two factors known to be tightly associated. As expected, there was a significant correlation between percent fat mass and both mean leptin levels (r = 0.872, P = 0.023) and leptin AUC (r = 0.870, P = 0.024).
The multiple-regression analyses showed that a model could be constructed for ghrelin AUC. The only significant predictive factors were insulin AUC and NEFA AUC, with negative and positive coefficients, respectively (r2 = 0.950, P = 0.011; Table 3). The correlation between estimated and actual ghrelin AUC was r = 0.975, P = 0.001.
In this study, the very frequent blood measurement (every 5 min from continuously withdrawn blood) and the avoidance of all environmental conditional cues associated with eating allowed a detailed analysis of variations in plasma ghrelin levels relative to spontaneous eating. The postprandial decrease and preprandial increase of plasma ghrelin levels that have been reported among individuals fed on fixed schedules was also observed among all but one of our subjects initiating meals voluntarily, in the absence of cues related to time or food. Moreover, except in this one subject, the temporal profiles of ghrelin levels overlapped considerably with those of subjective hunger scores, with ghrelin increases generally preceding hunger increases by a short interval.
It is important to note that, although our protocol reduces the effect of external cues on the parameters we measured, it does not exclude circadian influences on these parameters, since subjects were deprived of time cues for only a short period. Durable circadian rhythms could clearly affect our results, and elimination of these potentially confounding effects would require long-term studies of people deprived of time cues for many weeks or months. Furthermore, we studied a small number of subjects, each examined quite intensively. The large amount of data resulting from frequent blood sampling allows us to draw conclusions regarding the interrelationships among our measured end points within individuals, but this small sample size limits our ability to extrapolate our findings to broad populations.
Not withstanding these caveats, however, the close association that we observed between a subjective measure of appetite and a blood parameter is, to our knowledge, the first to be described in the area of ingestive behavior. Moreover, it is striking that the relative difference in hunger scores between lunch and dinner in each individual mimicked those of ghrelin levels. Although NEFA and ghrelin levels showed similar IMI profiles, the relationship of hunger scores to NEFA levels was, on a group or individual basis, much less tightly linked than were hunger scores and ghrelin levels. Because our subjects were isolated from any time indicators and also from the sight, smell, sound, or mention of food, their decision regarding when to eat should have been driven more by putative endogenous appetite signals than by external influences. The observed preprandial increase in ghrelin levels and their close association with hunger scores under these conditions is, therefore, consistent with the hypothesis that ghrelin may function as part of the mechanism leading to an appetite signal. Although our observations are correlative and do not prove a causal role for ghrelin in meal initiation, they are consistent with that model and represent more compelling evidence in its favor than has been provided from our prior work on subjects fed according to a fixed schedule (12, 15).
Because one subject did not show a preprandial increase in ghrelin levels, however, a mandatory relationship between ghrelin and meal initiation is questioned. One explanation might be that this subject's decision regarding when to eat was not driven by physiological factors. Although this possibility cannot be excluded, some facts argue against it. First, the subject's hunger scores manifested the usual profile observed in a spontaneous IMI and reached high values before the request for dinner. Second, the duration of the IMI and the energy intake at dinner were not reduced compared with those in other subjects. Third, a small increase in ghrelin levels was actually apparent ∼250 min after lunch, but, contrary to those in other subjects, this level plateaued until the dinner request. Other blood profiles were explored to provide hypotheses to explain this unusual ghrelin profile, and additional atypical features were observed. By the end of this subject's IMI, NEFA levels had not increased from trough values, and insulin levels had not declined to their baseline. The unusual NEFA profile is unlikely to explain the unusual ghrelin profile, however, since subject 2 showed a similar NEFA profile but had a clear preprandial increase in ghrelin levels. Moreover, it is important to note that a preprandial increase in NEFA levels is not consistently observed and requires a long IMI and low insulin levels (10, 27, 28). This subject's unusual insulin profile was, therefore, the only parameter we measured that, together with the ghrelin profile, contrasted with that of all other subjects. Although insulin levels reached baseline values 250–350 min after lunch in all other subjects, they remained >250% higher than baseline in subject 6. In summary, the most likely explanation for the lack of a preprandial increase in ghrelin levels in subject 6 appears to be the failure of this individual's insulin levels to return to baseline during the IMI.
A relationship between ghrelin and insulin is further supported in our study by the inverse correlation of AUC values of the two hormones during the IMI. This observation is consistent with recent reports supporting a role for insulin as a negative regulator of ghrelin (1, 18, 26, 30, 33, 39). Modeling of ghrelin AUC by multivariate linear regression, however, suggests that NEFA could be a potential cofactor linking insulin and ghrelin. The relationship between ghrelin and NEFA being positive, this means that, for a similar insulin level, ghrelin would be higher if NEFA were elevated. It is noteworthy that NEFA were also found to be tightly related to leptin in a previous study conducted with a similar procedure (10). In sparing glucose from oxidation via the glucose-fatty acid cycle (37) in the late part of the IMI (after the insulin-induced inhibition of lipolysis is weakening), mobilized NEFA can help maintain glucose levels and prolong satiety (21). However, NEFA contribute to metabolism mainly in the late part of the IMI (28). Beginning its increase sooner, ghrelin may represent a precocious enteric signal enhancing the disposition of a person toward food seeking, i.e., the interest in food.
Leptin showed its usual daytime increase in all subjects, but the onset and the magnitude of this increase varied among individuals. The highest values during the lunch-dinner interval were reached between 275 and 380 min across subjects. The predinner decline in leptin levels that we previously reported in five out of six subjects (10) was observed in only four out of six subjects here. In summary, it appears that spontaneous meal initiation can occur without a prior decrease in leptin levels, an increase in NEFA or ghrelin levels, or a return of insulin levels to baseline. The most consistent preprandial profile across subjects in this and several other studies in which very frequent blood sampling was performed is the preprandial decline in glucose (7, 8, 11, 23, 31, 32).
Our results, however, still support a role for ghrelin in the dynamic situation leading to meal initiation, and additional lines of recent evidence are also compatible with such a role. Spontaneous increases in circulating ghrelin levels correlated with episodes of feeding (but not growth hormone release) among ad libitum-fed rats evaluated with formal pulsatility analysis (45). The assertion that similar preprandial increases might affect human meal initiation is strengthened by observations that three different single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genes encoding either ghrelin or its receptor are associated with abnormal meal patterns characterized by excessive nibbling (or "grazing"), findings consistent with a role for ghrelin in dictating the timing of meals (20). A positive correlation was reported between preprandial ghrelin levels and gastric emptying time, a determinant of the duration of satiety (47). Finally, we have shown in humans that the depth and duration of postprandial ghrelin suppression is related dose dependently to caloric load, when all other features of meals are held constant (6). In other words, large meals suppress ghrelin more thoroughly than do small meals, similar to the manner in which caloric load affects appetite. Although these observations and our current findings present a picture of ghrelin as participating in meal initiation, the data are largely correlative and thus are not yet definitive. Critical loss-of-function experiments with ghrelin-blocking agents or genetic ablations are required to prove or disprove the hypothesis that ghrelin is an important participant in meal initiation.
The temporal profiles of ghrelin levels and hunger scores in our study overlapped more closely during the preprandial increase than during the postprandial decline. This finding is more consistent with a physiological role for the preprandial rise of ghrelin in meal initiation than with a key role for the postprandial fall of ghrelin in mediating meal termination. The latter event results from sensory cues (5, 38), gastric distention, and several short-acting, meal-stimulated intestinal satiation factors (e.g., CCK; see Refs. 41 and 50). These forces presumably cause the sensation of gastrointestinal fullness via ghrelin-independent mechanisms and are likely to be responsible for the postprandial fall of hunger scores that we observed preceding the fall of ghrelin levels.
In summary, we observed postprandial suppression and preprandial increases of plasma ghrelin levels among human subjects initiating meals voluntarily, in the absence of time- and food-related cues. Our data favor a role for insulin in both this short-term prandial regulation of ghrelin and in overall ghrelin AUC. We also found a close overlap between the temporal profiles of ghrelin levels and hunger scores. These correlative data are consistent with, but do not prove, the hypothesis that ghrelin functions as an endogenous meal-initiation signal. Further studies in which ghrelin signaling is abolished are required to establish definitively if ghrelin is, indeed, an important physiological meal initiator.
This study was supported by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Grant RO1 DK-61516 (D. E. Cummings), the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and by a grant from Danone Vitapole Nutrivaleur, Danone, Co. (Palaiseau France).
We thank Dr. Jeanine Louis-Sylvestre for extensive and insightful input into the work and this manuscript.
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We propose a framework for the exact probabilistic analysis of window-based pattern matching algorithms, such as Boyer–Moore, Horspool, Backward DAWG Matching, Backward Oracle Matching, and more. In particular, we develop an algorithm that efficiently computes the distribution of a pattern matching algorithm's running time cost (such as the number of text character accesses) for any given pattern in a random text model. Text models range from simple uniform models to higher-order Markov models or hidden Markov models (HMMs). Furthermore, we provide an algorithm to compute the exact distribution of
The basic pattern matching problem is to find all occurrences of a
A question that has apparently so far not been investigated is about the exact probability distribution of the number of required character accesses
In contrast to these results that are special to the Horspool algorithm, we use a general framework called
Here, we show that a similar idea can be applied to the analysis of pattern matching algorithms by constructing an automaton that encodes the behavior of such an algorithm and then combining it with a text model. The PAA framework allows doing this in a natural way, which further highlights its utility The random text model can be quite general, from simple i.i.d. uniform models to high-order Markov models or HMMs. The approach is applied to the following pattern matching algorithms in the non-asymptotic regime (short patterns, medium-length texts): Horspool, B(N)DM, BOM. We do not treat BDM and BNDM separately as, in terms of text character accesses, they are indistinguishable (see Section 2.2).
This paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we give a brief review of the Horspool, B(N)DM and BOM algorithms. In Section 3, we define
An extended abstract of this work has been presented at LATA'10 [
Throughout this paper, Σ denotes a finite alphabet,
In the following, we summarize the Horspool, B(N)DM and BOM algorithms; algorithmic details can be found in [
We do not discuss the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm because its number of text character accesses is constant: Each character of the text is looked at exactly once. Therefore,
We also do not discuss the Boyer–Moore algorithm, since it is never the best one in practice because of its complicated code to achieve optimal asymptotic running time. In contrast to our earlier paper [
The Horspool, B(N)DM and BOM algorithms have the following properties in common: They maintain a search window its cost its shift
its cost
its shift
First, the rightmost characters of window and pattern are compared; that means,
In any case, the rightmost window character a is used to determine how far the window can be shifted for the next iteration. The shift function ensures that no match can be missed by moving the window such that a becomes aligned to the rightmost
For concreteness, we state Horspool's algorithm and how we count text character accesses as pseudocode in Algorithm 1. Note that after a shift, even when we know that
The main advantage of the Horspool algorithm is its simplicity. Especially, a window's shift value depends only on its last character, and its cost is easily computed from the number of consecutive matching characters at its right end. The Horspool algorithm does not require any advanced data structure and can be implemented in a few lines of code.
The main idea of the BDM algorithm is to build a deterministic finite automaton (in this case, a suffix automaton, which is a directed acyclic word graph or DAWG) that recognizes all substrings of the reversed pattern, accepts all suffixes of the reversed pattern (including the empty suffix), and enters a FAIL state if a string has been read that is not a substring of the reversed pattern.
The suffix automaton processes the window right-to-left. As long as the FAIL state has not been reached, we have read a substring of the reversed pattern. If we are in an accepting state, we have even found a suffix of the reversed pattern (
Note that
The advantage of BDM is that it makes long shifts, but its main disadvantage is the necessary construction of the suffix automaton, which is possible in
Constructing a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) instead of the deterministic suffix automaton is much simpler. However, processing a text character then does not take constant, but
From the "text character accesses" analysis point of view, BDM and BNDM are equivalent, as they have the same shift and cost functions.
BOM is similar to B(N)DM, but the suffix automaton of the reversed pattern is replaced by a simpler deterministic automaton, the factor oracle [
The only string of length
It has the minimal number of states (
It has between
It may recognize more strings than the substrings of
The cost function
By construction, BOM never gives longer shifts than B(N)DM. The main advantage of BOM over BDM is reduced space usage and preprocessing time; the factor oracle only has
In this section, we introduce deterministic arithmetic automata (DAAs). They extend ordinary deterministic finite automata (DFAs) by performing a computation while one moves from state to state. Even though DAAs can be shown to be formally equivalent to families of DFAs on an appropriately defined larger state space, they are a useful concept before introducing probabilistic arithmetic automata (PAAs) and allow us to construct PAAs for the analysis of pattern matching algorithms in a simpler way. By using the PAA framework, we emphasize the connection between the problems discussed in the present article and those solved before using the same formalism: Other applications in biological sequence analysis include the exact computation of clump size distributions and
Informally, a DAA starts with the state-value pair (
Further, we define the associated joint transition function
As usual, we extend the definition of
For each state
As a simple example for a DAA, take a standard DFA (
For a given algorithm and pattern
While different constructions are possible (see also [
Given a window-based pattern matching algorithm
The remaining components are defined as
The total cost
We have to prove that the DAA computes this value for
Let (
It remains to show that
The size of the constructed DAA's state space is (
Hopcroft's algorithm [
The algorithm can straightforwardly be adapted to minimize DAAs by choosing the initial state set partition appropriately. In our case, each DAA state is associated with the same operation. The only differences in state's behavior thus stem from different emissions. Therefore, Hopcroft's algorithm can be initialized by the partition induced by the emissions and then continued as usual.
As we exemplify in Section 7, this leads to a considerable reduction of the number of states.
This section introduces finite-memory random text models and explains how to construct a
Given an alphabet Σ, a random text is a stochastic process (
A finite-memory text model is a tuple (
The idea is that the model given by (
Note that the probability ℙ(
Let (
We have
Similar text models are used in [
For an i.i.d. model, we set
Probabilistic arithmetic automata (PAAs), as introduced in [
A PAA induces three stochastic processes: (1) the state process (
We now restate the PAA recurrences from [
The state-value distribution is given by
The recurrence in Lemma 2 resembles the Forward recurrences known from HMMs.
Note that the range of
We now formally state how to combine a DAA and a text model into a PAA that allows us to compute the distribution of values produced by the DAA when processing a random text.
Let a text model a state space
a start state
transition probabilities
(deterministic) emission probability vectors
a state space
a start state
transition probabilities
(deterministic) emission probability vectors
Note that states having zero probability of being reached from
Let a text model ℒ( the value distribution ℒ( if for all
the value distribution ℒ(
if for all
As in Section 5.2, we define
In the above derivation, step (
To compute the table
As a direct consequence of the above lemma and of the DAA construction from Section 4, we arrive at our main theorem.
Let a finite-memory text model (
Using optimal algorithm-dependent DAA constructions schemes (e.g., the
Computing the cost distribution for two algorithms allows us to compare their performance characteristics. One natural question, however, cannot be answered by comparing these two (one-dimensional) distributions: What is the probability that algorithm
We start by giving a general construction of a DAA that computes the difference of the sum of emission of two given DAAs.
Let a finite alphabet Σ and two DAAs
ℰ ≔ ℰ1 × ℰ2 and
ℰ ≔ ℰ1 × ℰ2 and
Follows directly from Definition 6.
Lemma 4 can now be applied to the DAAs constructed for the analysis of two algorithms as described in Section 4. Since the above construction builds the product of both state spaces, it is advisable to minimize both DAAs before generating the product. Furthermore, in an implementation, only reachable states of the product automaton need to be constructed. Before being used to build a PAA (by applying Lemma 3), the product DAA should again be minimized.
As discussed in Section 5.2, at most
In Section 2, we considered three practically relevant algorithms, namely Horspool's algorithm, backward oracle matching (BOM), and backward (non)-deterministic DAWG matching (B(N)DM). Now, we compare the distributions of running time costs of these algorithms for several patterns over the DNA alphabet {
It is remarkable that for BOM we find zero probabilities with a fixed period. The period equals
Let a window-based pattern matching algorithm
By using the assumption that
The probability that one pattern matching algorithm is faster than another depends on the pattern. Using the technique introduced in Section 6, we can quantify the strength of this effect.
Worth noting and perhaps surprising is the fact that there is a non-zero probability of BOM being faster than B(N)DM although,
To assess the effect of DAA minimization before constructing PAAs, we constructed minimized DAAs for all 21840 patterns of lengths 2 to 7 over Σ = {
The algorithms were implemented in JAVA and are available as part of the MoSDi software package available at
Using PAAs, we have shown how the exact distribution of the number of character accesses for window-based pattern matching algorithms can be computed algorithmically. The framework admits general finite-memory text models, including i.i.d. models, Markov models of arbitrary order, and character-emitting hidden Markov models. The given construction results in an asymptotic runtime of
The behavior of BOM deserves further attention: first, periodic zero probabilities are found in its distribution of text character accesses; and second, it may (unexpectedly) need fewer text accesses than B(N)DM on some patterns, although BOM's shift values are never better than B(N)DM's.
We focused on algorithms for single patterns, but the presented techniques also apply to algorithms to search for multiple patterns like the Wu-Manber algorithm [
Other metrics than text character accesses might be of interest and could be easily substituted; for example, just counting the number of windows by defining
The given constructions allow us to analyze an algorithm's performance for each pattern individually. While this is desirable for detailed analysis, the cost distribution resulting from randomly choosing text
The results of this paper were obtained while Tobias Marschall was a PhD student with Sven Rahmann and TU Dortmund. The thesis is available at
Factor Oracle for
Illustration of the DAA encoding the behavior of Horspool's algorithm when searching the text
Exact distributions of character access counts for patterns
Exact distributions of differences in character access counts for different patterns using a second order Markovian text model estimated from the human genome and random texts of lengths 100.
Example of a string for which BOM executes less character accesses than B(N)DM when searching for the pattern
Histogram on number of states of minimal DAAs over all patterns of length 6 over Σ = {
Comparison of DAA sizes for all patterns of length
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JVC DLA-RS1 Remote Control
Click enlarge. So close. Nothing like a really good remote control, and the JVC RS1's remote is very good. Long and thin, and very light (I wouldn't mind a little more weight), it should be easy to handle by large hands and small alike.
One thing I consider very important, is for a remote to be easily workable with one hand, and the JVC remote does that just fine. Another key issue is backlight brightness, and the JVC's backlight is nice and bright. Speaking of backlights, the button to engage the backlight is in the lower right corner, very easy to access. By comparison, many (including the Sony VW50) put it in the top left, much harder to get to.
Let's start at the top: On the left is a very small Off button (press twice for off) and opposite it a larger On button.
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OK, next left is a rocker bar for Contrast + and -, and right, the same for brightness. In between these two large rockers, is a small Info button (on top) and the image mute (labeled HIDE), button.
That takes us to the usual navigation area, with the Menu button on the left, Exit, which moves you back up a menu level on the right, and the four arrow keys in the usual diamond configuration, with a large Enter button in the center.
That's it, except for the Test button on the bottom left, and the previously mentioned backlight button on the right. The Test button toggles you through a number of built in test patterns, including full color bars, gray scale, and separate Red, Green and Blue gradation screens.
JVC DLA-RS1 Lens Throw and Lens Shift
he manual zoom lens on the RS1 is quoted as having a 2:1 ratio. The actual lens throw chart in the manual indicates that the ratio is actually just slightly more than that. Officially, here are the numbers for a 16:9 100″ diagonal screen. Based on this info, you should be able to calculate the placement range for any sized screen.
For the 100″ diagonal screen, the lens can be as close as 9 feet 10 inches, or as far back as 19 feet 11 inches.
The amount of lens shift is very generous, quoted as being 80% vertical and 34% horizontal. As with almost all projectors with lens shift, the two affect each other. If you use most of 80% vertical, you are limit, the amount of horizontal shift, and vice versa.
What does 80% mean? The center point would be having the lens at the same height as the center of the screen. The adjustment would allow you to move the image or down the same amount. Let's assume that 100″ diagonal screen. It would be approximately 49.3″ high – but I'll round to 50″ for simplicity. 80% of 50 inches would be 40 inches. The center point is at 25 inches, so up 40 inches would have the lens 15 inches above the top of the 100″ screen, or as low as 15 inches below the bottom. That 100″ screen would be 87 inches wide, so 34% of that would be about 27 inches either side of dead center, as the furthest off center – if you are not using the vertical lens shift at all. The manual has a chart to show you how they affect each other.
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