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with T2DM have more difficulty in losing weight than people without T2DM when following Lifestyle intervention. In patients who were unable to lose weight following Lifestyle intervention alone, the addition of Sibutramine to Lifestyle advice enabled similar or greater amounts of weight 1m"> as pair matched patients who successfully lost weight in the Lifestyle clinic. These studies demonstrate that effective dietetic management for patients with T2DM result in positive outcomes, such as weight loss. However, changes to standard care would be required towards more intensive and longer term dietetic interventions as well as the use of pharmacotherapy. The treatment of obesity in T2DM needs to be more aggressive to enable people to manage their weight, and different weight loss strategies should be attempted until success prevails. Dietitians provide an excellent foundation on which new skills for obesity management can be built, which then urgently need to be implemented nationwide to help turn the tide on the obesity epidemic.

A fusion-evaporation reaction between a thick self-supporting 110Pd target and a 'Li beam has been used to populate and study indium and cadmium nuclei with A=112-114 using the YRAST Ball -y-ray spectrometer array. Previously unreported states in 112In and 114In have been observed by use of -y--y and 'y3 coincidences, and tentative spin and parity assignments using -y-ray angular correlation and distribution analysis have identified several bands consisting of stretched dipole transitions. Experimental B(M1)/B(E2) values extracted from these dipole bands are consistent with values indicative of a shears mechanism. The experimental B(M1)/B(E2) values have been compared with theoretical values calculated using the semi-classical Dönau formalism and are consistent with a single 99/2 proton coupled to various rotationally aligned neutron configurations. Calculations of Z(2)/B(E2) result in values in excess of those usually obtained from rotational bands based on collective rotation and further add to the evidence of angular momentum generation by the shears mechanism. Two previously unreported states in 112C d have been observed which allow the observation of the vibrational to rotational evolution by use of E-GOS curves. The commissioning of SASSYER, a recoil separator situated at the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, is documented in Appendix A. The use of an array of solar cells as a recoil detector is reported and the initial performance of SASSYER is investigated.

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The long-standing problem of possible formation of metastable states in collisions of the eta-meson with atomic nuclei is revisited. The two-body eta-nucleon interaction is described by a local potential, which is constructed by fitting known low-energy parameters of this interaction. The many-body eta-nucleus potential obtained within the folding model, is used to search for metastable states of the systems formed by the eta-meson with hydrogen and helium isotopes. It is found that all these systems generate strings of overlapping resonances. / Physics / M.Sc. (Physics)

The long-standing problem of possible formation of metastable states in collisions of the eta-meson with atomic nuclei is revisited. The two-body eta-nucleon interaction is described by a local potential, which is constructed by fitting known low-energy parameters of this interaction. The many-body eta-nucleus potential obtained within the folding model, is used to search for metastable states of the systems formed by the eta-meson with hydrogen and helium isotopes. It is found that all these systems generate strings of overlapping resonances. / Physics / M.Sc. (Physics)