In 1966 the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University started a research project funded by the National Institute of Health to analyze agricultural data for improving crop yields. They studied variables such as temperature, grain type or fertilizer variety in order to identify patterns that turned out into better harvests. This is one of the stories commonly used to go back to the origins of Big Data, and also the birth of SAS ...
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Since its discovery, insulin has become one of the most studied molecules in the history of medicine. As we all know, insulin is a protein related to diabetes, a disease that affects a large percentage of the population. The supply of exogenous insulin is needed to regulate glucose levels in patients with type 1 diabetes in all cases, and occasionally in patients with type 2 ...
More...Obesity is defined as an excess of body fat tissue. Adipose tissue (white adipose tissue) is the organ whose main function is to store the overflow of energy from the diet. The body mass index (BMI) is a quick formula to know when an individual person is obese, being 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2 the overweight and obesity thresholds, respectively..
Anatomically, the white adipose tissue is present in three big ...
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