AIISTIIACT' Two fectling trials rveie conducted to evaluate the protein quality of Mormon crickets (Anabrtts simplex llaldeman) whcn fed to broiler chicks. The first trid was designed to idcntify the limiting amino acids in Mormon crickets using purified diets. The basal diet wessupplemcnted rvith amino acids based on an amino acid analysis of Mormoncricketsandpreliminary fccrling trials, anrl ...

The most popular way is to evaluate the diet in terms of its metabolizable energy (ME) content measured in kcal ( I kcal=4-184 kJ). The problems associated with the determination of ME have been recently reviewed by Miller (1974). Unfortunately, the ME of a diet is not always equal to the sum of the ME values of its constituent parts (Vohra, 1972). It is reduced by the presence of toxicants, bu...

Adherence to a Mediterranean style diet affords protection from degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Identification of the active constituents of the Mediterranean diet is crucial to the formulation of appropriate dietary guidelines. Also, research on the pharmacological properties of the "minor components" of this diet, eg vitamins and polyphenols, is very active ...

BACKGROUND To minimize the risk of accidental reactions, atopic children with multiple sensitizations to tree nuts are advised to avoid all nuts. Multiple food challenges would be needed to confirm the clinical relevance, but are too burdensome to be practical. The usefulness of open mixed nut challenges in terms of safety, reactions during challenge, tolerance of the challenge material, effect...

141 M ost practicing child neurologists possess a basic understanding of the ketogenic diet, which is a high-fat, low-protein, low-carbohydrate diet for treating children with epilepsy who do not respond to or cannot tolerate drugs. This diet mimics the biochemical changes associated with starvation and induces, among other changes, production of ketone bodies (mainly beta-hydroxybutyrate, and ...

We describe an ontological approach for determining the relevance of documents based on the underlying concept of exploiting complex semantic relationships among real-world entities. This research builds upon semantic metadata extraction and annotation, practical domain-specific ontology creation, main-memory query processing, and the notion of semantic association. A prototype application illu...

Dorothea Orem, RN, MSN, Ed, FAAN, began to develop foundations for the selfcare deficit theory of nursing in the 1950s, when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine, psychology, and sociology. Thus, Orem is a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge. The development of the self-care deficit theory of nursing has been de...

A important problem in many areas of complex information processing is to integrate heterogeneous information from different sources. For handwriting recognition we accomplished such an integration through an agent architecture of three co-operating agents. One agent represents the bottom-up knowledge as generated by a shape-based classifier of unistrokes. The second agent contains top-down (sy...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary lipid and inorganic phosphorus supplementation on growth, retention and loading of phosphorus and nitrogen in young red sea bream. Two levels of lipid (190 and 250 g/kg) and two levels of phosphorus (14 and 19 g/kg) in the dry diets were tested. Four practical diets were formulated and coded as L0P0, L0P1, L1P0 and L1P1, respecti...

(1) BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The Paleolithic diet has been receiving media coverage in Australia and claims to improve overall health. The diet removes grains and dairy, whilst encouraging consumption of fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and nuts. Our aim was to compare the diet to the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) in terms of compliance, palatability and feasibility; (2) SUBJECTS/METHOD...