introduction: tracheobronchial foreign body may often be treated as asthma, chronic bronchitis or etc. especially in patients with no memories of aspiration episodes. case presentation: a 74-year-old woman, suffering from persistent cough, was temporarily misdiagnosed with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and treated for six months. during this period, computed tomography (ct) findings c...

background: the life style is formed and stabilized in adolescence. since consumption of fruits and vegetables may affect the risk of chronic diseases, their low consumption during adolescence is very important. knowledge and skill is considered as one of the main determinants of this behavior. this study aimed to investigate the knowledge and skill of proper consumption of fruit and vegetables...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a government income management program on store sales. DESIGN AND SETTING An interrupted time series analysis of sales data in 10 stores in 10 remote Northern Territory communities during 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2009, which included an 18-month period before income management; a 4-6-month period after the introduction of income management; a 3-month p...

Due to an increasing demand of leaf vegetables, and hence their economic importance in the tropics, it is very common that excessive fertilizer N rates are applied to vegetable gardens and fields to attain high yield. This calls for more information on their nutrient requirements. In this study, we designed experiments to explore the effect of organic N levels on the yield and agronomic N use e...

Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter spp. has been increasingly reported worldwide. We report here the first detection of an Acinetobacter calcoaceticus isolate from vegetables in Lebanon carrying the bla Oxa-72 gene. These findings show that the Lebanese environment may constitute a potential reservoir for this antibiotic resistance gene.

BACKGROUND The aim of this research was to investigate whether increased portion sizes of vegetables and decreased portion sizes of meat on main dishes increased the amount of vegetables consumed in a real-life restaurant setting without affecting customer satisfaction. The participants were unaware of the experiment. METHODS A cross-over design was used in which three restaurants were random...

The species Brassica rapa includes enormous leafy vegetables with extreme leaf morphological diversity. Leaf traits such as size, shape, weight, and ratio of the blade to petiole contribute yield, appearance, desirability consumers. These leaf-related are controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). construction high-density bin maps using low-coverage sequencing is a powerful method for QTL f...

The iodine (I) and selenium (Se) deficiencies affect approximately 30% 15%, respectively, of the global population. biofortification vegetables is a valid way to increase intake through diet. This study was carried out on baby-leaf lettuce investigate effects plant growth, leaf quality, I Se accumulation adding potassium iodide sodium selenate, separately simultaneously, nutrient solution in fl...

obesity is rising rapidly in iran. nutrition is an important issue of obesity; fruits and vegetables are among the best food sources of antioxidant vitamins, soluble fibers, phytochemicals, and other nutrient constituents. further, some of these foods have been shown to be protective related to reduction of chronic disease risk. in this study, consumption of fruits & vegetables and body mass in...