We determined the average amount of sodium provided in lunches and snacks and the average amount of sodium consumed at lunch in a convenience sample of Australian preschool children attending Long Day Care (LDC). Sodium content of lunches and snacks was determined from standardised recipes. Individual children's sodium intake was estimated by a validated visual plate waste scale method. Five re...

The effects of intermittent hypergravity on gait alterations and hindlimb muscle atrophy in rats induced by 2 weeks of simulated microgravity were investigated. Rats were submitted to hindlimb unloading for 2 weeks (unloading period), followed by 2 weeks of reloading (recovery period). During the unloading period, animals were subjected to the following treatments: (1) free in cages (Control); ...

We study the problem of allocating objects by means of probabilistic mechanisms. Each agent has strict preferences over objects and ex post receives exactly one object. A standard approach in the literature is to extend agents' preferences over objects to preferences over lotteries de ned on those objects, using the rst-order stochastic dominance criterion, or the sd-extension. In a departure f...

It is known that the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and the cerebellar flocculus are the key areas, which contribute to the behavioral recovery ("vestibular compensation") after unilateral labyrinthectomy (UL). In these areas, how the genetic activities of the metabotropic glutamate receptors mGluR2 and mGluR7 performance after UL is unknown. With the means of quantitative real-time PCR, Weste...

The objective of this review was to apply the risk assessment methodology used by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) to derive a revised safe Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for vitamin D. New data continue to emerge regarding the health benefits of vitamin D beyond its role in bone. The intakes associated with those benefits suggest a need for levels of supplementation, food fortification, o...

A possible cause associated with urinary lithiasis (UL) is the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the kidney. The aim of this study was to evaluate the content of Cu, Pb, and Cd in kidney tissues removed from patients with nephrological problems and associate it with UL. Samples of 50 kidney sections from patients were analyzed. Results were statistically analyzed using a fixed effects model in...

1 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA 30904, USA [email protected] 2 School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland, and Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warsaw, Poland zbys...

1 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA 30904, USA [email protected] 2 School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland, and Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warsaw, Poland zbys...

MD v ve Card rd d dio io io io iova va va va vasc sc sc sc scul ul ul u ular ar ar ar ar C C C Cen en en en ente t t t t r r r r r Abstract Background—There is currently no therapy proven to attenuate left ventricular (LV) dilatation

The distribution and morphology of gold panicles from stream sediments, glacial tills and soils have been used to assess their distance from source (Antweiler and Campbell, 1977; Averill, 1988; Petts e/ ul.. 1991; Nikkarinen, 1991; Averill and Huneault, 1991; Grant et ul.. 1991). Here we present preliminary clata on the distribution and morphology of gold in Harris Crcek. southern British Colum...