OBJECTIVE This review examines the extent to which differences in nutrition could explain the diversity of health in Europe and how dietary patterns might contribute to the overall burden of disease in the region. SETTING Europe. DESIGN Between-country variations and time trends in dietary and health patterns in Europe are described, taking into account recent evidence on east-west mortalit...

Societies vary on how they view alcoholic beverages and their use. These views affect use patterns. One indicator of a society's view on alcohol use may be the way it considers the relationship between women and alcoholic beverages, be it marked with moral stigma or with the relevance that women have in controlling the drinking behaviour of men. Europe has experienced substantial social changes...

We present a new segment-based method for saliency detection based on multi-size superpixels that combines local and global saliency cues. We extract superpixels at several scales and represent each superpixel with a normal distribution in CIE-Lab space estimated from its associated pixels. Global saliency is computed by grouping similar superpixels to estimate the spatial distribution of color...

A b s t r a c t In this paper we discuss the results of experiments which use a context, essentially an ordered set of lexical items, as the seed from which to build a network representing statistically important relationships among lexical items in some corpus. A metric is then applied to the nodes in the network in order to discover those pairs of items related by high indices of similarity. ...

We have developed highly efficient white top-emitting organic light-emitting devices (TOLEDs) with broad emission by modifying both anode and cathode. To alleviate the undesirable microcavity effect and obtain “broad” white emission, CFxcoated Ag anode with modified reflectivity and an index-matching layer (SnO2) capped on thin Ca/Ag cathode with a maximal transparency of 80% were employed. A t...

Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is a perennial plant which belongs to the Asparagaceae family native to Asia, North Africa and Europe. This variety is an economically important crop with a high value in terms of food, drug activity and industry. Asparagus is rich in functional components such as Flavonoids, Saponin and Glutathione with high antioxidation activity. In comparison to 2...