Pyridoxine toxicity courtesy of your local health food store

Finding Your Way, Courtesy of Machine Learning

In this paper, we consider the multi-label, multi-class prediction problem in the context of classifying undergraduate education requirements at Stanford University – namely, given a course’s description, determining what general education requirements it satisfies. Given the extremely tough challenge of using a small dataset, we opt to consider models and make modifications that are able to ha...

Food store accessibility.

Although occupational therapists try to help their wheelchair-bound clients reenter the community or maintain independence, many facilities' noncompliance with accessibility standards makes such planning difficult. In the present study, a survey was used to investigate the wheelchair accessibility of 20 grocery and convenience stores. The results of the survey indicated that types of stores wit...

The Good Food Junction: a Community-Based Food Store Intervention to Address Nutritional Health Inequities

BACKGROUND This is a 2-year study to assess the early impacts of a new grocery store intervention in a former food desert. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study is to understand the early health effects of the introduction of a large-scale food and nutrition-focused community-based population health intervention, the Good Food Junction (GFJ) Cooperative Store, in a geographically bounded group o...

Ultrastructural lesions of pyridoxine toxicity in beagle dogs.

Three adult Beagle dogs given pyridoxine hydrochloride orally at a dose of 150 mg/kg body weight/day for about 100 days developed ataxia and had spastic, dysmetric leg movements. Ultrastructural alterations in the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord were degeneration and loss of axons and myelin, and secondary changes of the myelin sheaths. Possible pathogenic mechanisms of pyridoxine neurotoxi...

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