The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased globally, and population data suggest that it is also increasing among ethnic Fijian youth. Among numerous behavioural changes contributing to overweight in youth residing in nations undergoing rapid economic and social change, meal skipping has not been examined as a potential risk factor. The study objectives were to assess the prevalence...

Public procurement can be a major source of innovation. The potential benefits of public procurement might be fully exploited through the acquisition not only of appliances which are already available in the market, but also of new appliances which are tailored to the specific needs of the local community and might be exported as well to the international markets. In this way, public procuremen...

Cytogenetic studies were developed in Prochilodus lineatus (Valenciennes 1836), describing an interesting system of small supernumerary chromosomes. The purpose of this work is to study the frequency and morphology of B chromosomes in individuals from the parental line and the inheritance patterns of these elements in individuals obtained from controlled crosses in the species P. lineatus. The ...

A study was designed to compare nutritional and metabolic parameters on subjects with a spectrum of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dietary patterns. The method of selection of the study population, the description of its characteristics, and the data collection protocol are described. Anthropometric measurements of vegetarians and nonvegetarians are reported and compared with previously reported ...

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...