OBJECTIVE To describe the reported energy and nutrient intake and adequacies in Mexican women. MATERIAL AND METHODS A 24-hour dietary recall was used to obtain nutrient intake in a representative sub-sample of 2,630 women from 12 to 49 years of age from the National Nutrition Survey 1999. Nutrient adequacies were estimated using the Dietary Reference Intakes and stratified according to region...

A non-destructive cultivation system was developed to study the dynamics of phosphorus (Pi) uptake by mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal maize plantlets. The system consisted of a plant container connected via silicon tubes to a glass bottle containing a nutrient solution supplemented with Pi. The nutrient solution is pumped with a peristaltic pump to the upper part of the container via the silico...

Knowledge of existing genetic variability is essential for initiating a successful breeding program. A set 628 finger millet accessions comprising from the core collection, farmer preferred and improved varieties released in Kenya, Tanzania Uganda were profiled nutrient content. Accessions showed very high different contents. Local cultivars ESA region had significantly lower levels main nutrie...

BACKGROUND A woman's diet while pregnant can play an important role in her reproductive health as well as the health of her unborn child. Diet quality and nutrient intake amongst pregnant women residing in the rural Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region of the United States is inadequate. The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project was designed to test the comparative impact of two home visiting programs ...

Nutrient use efficiency is reported as a strong indicator of the buildup soil nutrient status for nutritional security crops through an integrated management approach under rice-wheat system. The data revealed that application manures and fertilizers maximum organic carbon (0.39%) in treatment receiving 100% recommended dose (RDF) + farmyard manure lowering pH to 6.39. available N (360.8 kg ha?...

Soil, which exhibits difference in nutrient contents and aggregate sizes, provides spatially distinct habitats for biota. Cover crops influence the compositions of soil organism communities, playing an indispensable role regulation underground food webs ecosystem functions. However, effect cover on microbes nematodes distribution within different sizes remains unknown. Thus, a field experiment ...

It is known that the essential ingredients of a Lisp-style unhygienic macro system can be expressed in terms of advanced hygienic macro systems. We show that the reverse is also true: We present a model of a core unhygienic macro system, on top of which a hygiene-compatible macro system can be built, without changing the internals of the core macro system and without using a code walker. To ach...

The paper presents an algorithm for multi-agent strategic modeling (MASM). The method applies domain knowledge and transforms sequences of basic multi-agent actions into a set of strategic action descriptions in the form of graph paths, agent actions, roles and corresponding rules. The rules, constructed by machine learning, enrich the graphical strategic patterns, which are presented in the fo...

Synthetic routes for the preparation of O-acetyl-ADP-ribose and two novel non-hydrolyzable analogs containing an N-acetyl are described and shown to interact with the macro domain of histone protein H2A1.1.