Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is known to be the most important etiological factor in skin cancer development. The main objective of this thesis was to achieve an objective, basic knowledge of the individual UVR exposure dose pattern and to reveal the factors and with which power they influence on the UVR dose among the Danes. Eight open prospective, observational studies and one study anal...

This paper describes our contribution to the social event detection (SED) task of the MediaEval Benchmark 2013. We present a robust unsupervised approach for the clustering of tagged photos and videos into social events. Results on the SED datasets show that the proposed approach yields an excellent generalization ability and state-of-the-art clustering performance.

Multiplex PCR was used to investigate the presence of enterotoxins genes (sea, seb, sec, sed and see) and femA gene (specific for Staphylococcus aureus) in coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) isolated from cheese and meat products. From 102 CPS isolates, 91 were positive for femA, 10 for sea, 12 for sed and four for see.

Participation of 9 to 11-year-old children in physical education lessons (PEL) contributes to a significantly higher duration of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during the school day and, in overweight/obese girls and normal-weight boys, to an increase in overall daily MVPA as shown by previous research. However, it is not known whether this increase in MVPA is at the expense of l...

Glucan particles (GPs) are 2-4 μm hollow, porous shells composed of 1,3-β-D-glucan that have been effectively used for oral targeted-delivery of a wide range of payloads, including small molecules, siRNA, DNA, and protein antigens. While it has been demonstrated that the transepithelial transport of GPs is mediated by Peyer's patch M cells, the fate of the GPs once within gut-associated lymphoi...

The objective of this research was to determine the influence of dietary Se on various indicators of Se status and relative liver glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPx-1) messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in growing Holstein bull calves. Calves (n = 14, 7/diet) were started 28 d after birth on a Se-adequate (SeA) or Se-deficient diet (SeD) and maintained on the diet until 180 d of age. Blood samples were tak...

This study was designed to investigate the role of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced glucose intolerance, and the response to voluntary physical activity in the prevention of insulin resistance. Six-week-old wild-type (WT) and IL-6 knockout (KO) mice with (RUN) or without (SED) access to running wheels were fed a HFD (60% from kcal) for 4 weeks. A glucose tolerance test reveal...

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of moderate-intensity treadmill exercise on the structure and function of the murine heart and its associated impact on Akt-AMPK-mTOR signaling. A secondary aim was to test whether the exercise phenotype was altered following a cardiotoxic bolus dose of doxorubicin (DOX). Two-month-old C57Bl/6J female mice remained sedentary (SED, n = 12) or were ...

OBJECTIVE Exercise training has been shown to restore vasodilation to nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activation in arterioles distal to coronary artery occlusion. Because reactive oxygen species are generated during NOS uncoupling and the production of vasodilator H2O2 is increased during exercise in patients with coronary disease, we proposed that H2O2 may contribute to the restoration of vasodil...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effects of exercise training (ExT) upon concentration of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) in the gastrocnemius of rats with heart failure (HF) induced by left coronary artery ligation. METHODS Adult male Wistar rats submitted to myocardial infarction (MI) or sham surgery were randomly allocated into one of f...