Marketing research has documented the influence of in-store characteristics-such as the number and placement of display stands-on consumer purchases of a product. However, little information exists on this topic for key foods of interest to those studying the influence of environmental changes on dietary behavior. This study demonstrates a method for characterizing the food environment by measu...

The experiment investigated the effects of a supplemental candy coproduct (Chocolate Candy Feed [CCF]; International Ingredient Corp., St. Louis, MO), an alternative carbohydrate source to dietary lactose, on growth performance and on health status of nursery pigs. Crossbred pigs ( = 1,408; 21 d of age and 7.1 ± 0.3 kg BW; Smithfield Premium Genetics, Rose Hill, NC) were randomly assigned to 4 ...

How to improve the efficiency of local subcontractor management in the Indian projects of China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPP) is the center of this thesis. Based on the introduction of background and the analysis of reasons, this thesis puts forward a new management mode that combines “tame elephant”, “huge stick”, and “candies & sweet epithets” based on the “elephant-training artifice”, and ...

Recently, methods of projecting images onto food using a projector have been the subject various studies because they potential to intervene in visual appreciation food, and also such technology has create new production services related food. Since projection can be achieved easily an optical marker, edible retroreflector made agar proposed; however, had drawback short lifetime. In this paper,...

BACKGROUND Involvement of the central nervous system in patients with syphilis (neurosyphilis) may result in several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Rarely, patients with neurosyphillis may develop movement disorders with different phenomenology. Subtle orofacial dyskinesias have been reported in patients with neurosyphilis, known as the candy sign. CASE REPORT We describe a patient with neurosyph...

We prove that playing Candy Crush to achieve a given score in a fixed number of swaps is NP-hard.

A 7-month-old girl of average weight and unremarkable medical and family history presented with chronic osmotic diarrhea and failure to thrive. The onset of symptoms appeared shortly after cereals and fruits were introduced into her diet. As part of the investigation of the gastrointestinal symptoms, a biopsy of the small intestine mucosa was sent to the laboratory for biochemical analysis. Upo...