The stark observation of the coexistence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity – the triple burden of malnutrition – is inviting us to reconsider health and nutrition as the primary goal and final endpoint of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made remarkable advances in the past decades. However, their development hasn’t entirely fulfilled hea...

This paper describes an application of APE (the Atlas Planning Engine), an integrated planning and execution system at the heart of the Atlas dialogue management system. APE controls a mixedinitiative dialogue between a human user and a host system, where turns in the ‘conversation’ may include graphical actions and/or written text. APE has full unification and can handle arbitrarily nested dis...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical Allen test, preoperative Doppler ultrasonography, and intraoperative surgical Allen test with postoperative clinical findings in reconstruction of complex head and neck defects using radial forearm free flaps. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Retrospective review of 143 consecutive patients who underwent radial forearm free flap reconstruction from January 1, 19...