It is well known [1, 2, 3] that in most species a large proportion of the genome does not appear to code genes or proteins, or even regulate coding DNA. This leads to the descriptive expression " junk DNA ". Naturally, it is possible that the hidden information in this DNA has simply escaped us so far; however that such sequences have high redundancy (they may, for example, be long repetitions ...

High prevalence of obesity and non-communicable diseases is a global public health problem, in which the quality of food environments is thought to play an important role. Current scientific evidence is not consistent regarding the impact of food environments on diet. The relationship between local food environments and diet quality was assessed across 10 Australian suburbs, using Australian-ba...

There is a growing belief among policymakers and the general public that competitive foods in schools are a significant contributor to the childhood obesity epidemic. Numerous policy initiatives are underway at the local, state and federal level to regulate the availability of competitive foods in schools. However, the existing empirical evidence motivating these efforts is limited and rarely a...

Introduction: Junk food is increasingly becoming a part of the regular diet for most adolescents in India. Rich fat and salt content, such known to cause nutritional, affective, behavioural, cognitive alterations. The present cross-sectional study thus aimed understand patterns junk consumption school-going Method: A semi-structured, self-administered, pre-tested questionnaire, created by AACCI...

Hop Step Junk' is an interactive sound installation that creates audio and visual representations of the audience's footsteps. The sound of a footstep is very expressive. Depending on one's weight, clothing and gate, a footstep can sound quite different. The period between steps defines one's personal rhythm. The sound output of 'Hop Step Junk' is wholly derived from the audience's footsteps. '...

Conventional thought in idea generation suggests that there is no such thing as a bad idea. This paper challenges this assumption, arguing that task-irrelevant comments (electronic junk) can significantly influence the performance of computer-mediated idea generation groups. While the results of a controlled laboratory experiment using a group simulator show that electronic junk can create a do...