Nutrient profiling ranks foods based on their nutrient composition, with applications in multiple aspects of food policy. We tested the capacity of a category-specific model developed for product reformulation to improve the average nutrient content of foods, using five national food composition datasets (UK, US, China, Brazil, France). Products (n = 7183) were split into 35 categories based on...

High accuracy positioning systems in the nanometer range are needed for IC fabrication, research in microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology. A linear encoder with sub-nanometer resolution is needed for such applications as large field x-ray lithography, large field scanning microscopes, x-ray microscopes, x-ray micromachining, etc. For a conventional laser interferometer the r...

BACKGROUND Although many methods for cosmetic lip augmentation are available, none represents an ideal solution. OBJECTIVE A quantitative analysis of surgical lip augmentation was undertaken comparing AlloDerm (Lifecell Corp., Branchburg, NJ) allogenic dermal graft and autologous fat injection with autologous fat injection alone. METHODS Horizontal stab incisions were made at the vermilion ...

Modern data is customarily of multimodal nature, and analysis tasks typically require separation into the single components. Although a highly ill-posed problem, the morphological difference of these components sometimes allow a very precise separation such as, for instance, in neurobiological imaging a separation into spines (pointlike structures) and dendrites (curvilinear structures). Recent...

in this study, the effect of accelerated ripening with encapsulated protease and lipase on physiochemical properties such as fat and moisture, texture and microstructure of brined cheese was investigated. addition of lipase increases hardness by reducing fat globules diameter and increasing casein matrix junction. it also decreases brittleness by fat degradation which is responsible for plastic...