BACKGROUND Since 2010, federal and local agencies have invested broadly in a variety of nutrition-focused policy, systems and environmental change (PSE) initiatives in Los Angeles County (LAC). To date, little is known about whether the public supports such efforts. We address this gap in the literature by examining predictors of support for a variety of PSEs. METHODS Voters residing in LAC (...

This review examines the potential roles of parental self-efficacy (PSE) in parent and child adjustment and the role of parental cognitions in understanding behaviors and emotions within families. The areas in this review include parental competence and psychological functioning, as well as child behaviors, socio-emotional adjustment, school achievement, and maltreatment. There is strong eviden...

A problem-solving environment (PSE) for a distributed high-performance computing (HPC) is proposed to help users to work on distributed computer environment. When users access and use distributed computers for scientific computations, the PSE tells users which computers are available and appropriate for their specific application software by using hardware and software informations specified. T...

Resveratrol (RV, 3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene) is naturally produced by a wide variety of plants including grapes and peanuts (Arachis hypogaea). However, the yield of RV from peanut stem and its potential radiosensitizing effects in prostate cancer (PCa) have not been well investigated. In this study, we characterized RV in peanut stem extract (PSE) for the first time and showed that both RV and ...

Process industries has for long been important for the development of Swedish industry and society. All industries face different conditions that affect how to best run their operations. This thesis aims to describe some of the conditions that characterize process industries compared to other industries. Further one of these characteristics has been studied more closely. One of the traits of pr...

Due to fast changing working environment leading potential strains among employees, chronic health problems (CHP) become more prevalent especially aging employees regardless of sectors. By 2019, Public Service Department (PSD) reported 4,677 public service (PSE) with CHP. The organization has suffered losses due the long-term medical leave taken by CHP PSE, particularly when it involves talents...

A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is a complete, integrated computing environment for composing, compiling and running applications in a specific problem area or domain. We describe a visual code development tool within a PSE, which enables computational scientists to construct applications by connecting components. The granularity of each component can vary from being a complete code, to a m...

The dietary supplementation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii was evaluated in broilers challenged or not challenged with Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) using a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement. Depending on yeast inclusion at 0 (C) or 1 × 10⁹ cfu/kg diet (Y) and SE challenge (0 or log 6.3 cfu/bird) on d 15, the experiment had four treatments C, Y, C-SE, and Y-SE, respectively. Each treatment ...

Within the last several years, the poultry industry has seen a dramatic increase in the occurrence of pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) meat. This problem is known to be associated with a rapid decline in postmortem (PM) muscle pH, which results in inferior protein functionality similar to that found in PSE pork. Many factors such as seasonal changes have been known to influence the occurrence of...

Product quality and cost efficiency continue to grow in importance for the wood-based composites industry. The complex dynamics of the manufacturing process lends itself to the adoption of simulation models. Simulation models may be used to understand and manipulate the many parameters involved in the manufacturing process. However, most of the simulation models that have been developed over th...