Individual sealing and tray wrap of orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck cv. ‘Valencia’) with heat-shrinkable films of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were held for a period up to 4 months at 5°C and 85-90% RH. Both methods of film-packaging showed little change in the water relations characteristics, wh...

BACKGROUND Nutritional biomarkers may be used to assess dietary exposure without the errors commonly associated with self-reported dietary data. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine the association between plasma folate and intake of folate, fruit, and vegetables in a large cohort of healthy adults consuming foods that had not been fortified with folic acid. DESIGN The present study popul...

In eukaryotes, histone acetylation and methylation have been known to be involved in regulating diverse developmental processes and plant defense. These histone modification events are controlled by a series of histone modification gene families. To date, there is no study regarding genome-wide characterization of histone modification related genes in citrus species. Based on the two recent seq...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether hand contamination with fruit results in a false blood glucose (BG) reading using capillary fingertip blood sample. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study subjects were healthy volunteers with normal glucose tolerance test. Capillary BG samples were collected from the fingertip after peeling orange, grape, or kiwi fruit, followed by no action, washing hands with ta...

Since the early twentieth-century, sanitarians have relied on the radio for educational purposes. Men like Geraldo Horácio de Paula Souza and Borges Vieira used radio waves to popularize hygienic habits and disseminate information on sanitary topics. On April 16, 1940, Paula Souza stood before the microphones at Rádio Educadora Paulista and gave a lecture on the nutritional value of oranges and...

The idea for WAFL came about through a series of conversations that Jaklin Kornfilt and I have had over the past ten years. As we looked at constructions in Japanese, Turkish, and related languages, it became apparent that an analysis of a particular construction in Japanese could be confirmed, extended, or even questioned by comparing it to Turkish, and vice versa. Of course, one can always ma...

Linking relations described in text with relations in visualizations is often difficult. We used eye tracking to measure the optimal way to extract such relations in graphs, college students, and young children (6- and 8-year-olds). Participants compared relational statements ("Are there more blueberries than oranges?") with simple graphs, and two systematic patterns emerged: eye movements that...

We frequently encounter groups of similar objects in our visual environment: a bed of flowers, a basket of oranges, a crowd of people. How does the visual system process such redundancy? Research shows that rather than code every element in a texture, the visual system favors a summary statistical representation of all the elements. The authors demonstrate that although it may facilitate textur...

OBJECTIVES Three consecutive diets of the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board's multiple choice question examination in Medicine were analysed in two different ways, taking into account the responses of the candidates to the three separate specialities within medicine. DESIGN First, discrimination indices were obtained from calculations involving all 60 questions, each with five comp...