OBJECTIVES To study the impact of migration on food consumption among Indian factory workers and their siblings and spouses. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess diet using an interviewer-administered semi-quantitative FFQ from which intake of 184 commonly consumed food items was obtained. SETTINGS Participants recruited from factory sites in Bangalore, Lucknow, Nagpur and...

The apports nutritionnels conseillés (ANC) for the French population are the reference which are used in France to assess the nutritional status of the population. These references have been elaborated by a transparent and collective expert process, conferring on them an official reference. The originality of the French method was to add to the classical analysis of each nutrient an analysis co...

OBJECTIVE Neighbourhood differences in access to fresh fruit and vegetables may explain social inequalities in diet. Investigations have focused on variations in cost and availability as barriers to the purchase and consumption of fresh produce; investigations of quality have been neglected. Here we investigate whether produce quality systematically varies by food store type, rural-urban locati...

The approaches proposed for color texture discrimination can be divided into two types: 1) color and texture information are processed separately, and 2) spatial interactions of pixels both within and between color bands are considered. In this paper, we briefly review recent research and propose an approach based on separate processing of complementary color and pattern information. Color hist...

Associations between dietary patterns (DP) and socioeconomic factors have been little explored in adolescents. The aim of this study was to identify DP in European and Brazilian adolescents and to investigate their associations with a range of socioeconomic indicators. Adolescents from the HELENA-study and the Household Budget Survey were analyzed. Factor analysis was used to obtain DP. Linear ...

The methods of facial expression feature extraction based on traditional LBP have some drawbacks such as complexity, high dimension of feature vectors, which may reduce the efficiency of subsequent recognition process. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes an improved LBP algorithm——FastLBP(FLBP). FLBP compresses the feature vectors described by LBP histogram to decrease the complexi...

The objective of this narrative review is to examine the nutrition transition and its consequences when populations in Africa modernize as a result of socio-economic development, urbanization, and acculturation. The focus is on the changes in dietary patterns and nutrient intakes during the nutrition transition, the determinants and consequences of these changes as well as possible new approach...

In this work an experimental study about the capability of the LBP, HOG descriptors and color for clothing attribute classification is presented. Two different variants of the LBP descriptor are considered, the original LBP and the uniform LBP. Two classifiers, Linear SVM and Random Forest, have been included in the comparison because they have been frequently used in clothing attributes classi...