Bar code app aims to cut sugar intake

App aims for ward perfection.

An app developed by a private firm and customised by a hospital trust has been helping senior nurses carry out ward inspections.

Advice on maternal nutrition aims to cut health inequalities.

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Efficient Bar-Code Watermark System to Protectagricultural Products Information Andcopyright

In order to protect agricultural product information and copyright, this paper proposes an efficient bar-code watermark system with digital signature. The proposed system adopts digital signature to prevent a buyer from unauthorized copies and to prevent a seller from forged unauthorized copies. The proposed system also encodes the signature with bar-code and embeds the bar-code image into the ...

Sugar intake and myocardial infarction.

In 1957, Yudkin showed that the mortality from arteriosclerotic heart disease in different countries was more closely related to sugar consumption than to fat consumption, and he subsequently suggested that the consumption of sugar might be a cause of the disease (1963). He tested this hypothesis by comparing the dietary histories of patients with myocardial infarction or peripheral vascular di...