We assume that parents use the signalling intensity of their young to determine how much food they bring to the nest, and that the pattern of food allocation is determined by the signalling intensity and by the intensity of other nonsignalling behaviours that are not perceived by the parents. We explore different ways in which signalling, nonsignalling behaviours and competitive asymmetries mig...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined food consumption patterns in relation to biological risk factors for cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to describe food consumption patterns in the general Dutch population and their association with cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN We performed a cross-sectional study of 19 750 randomly selected men and women aged 20-65...

Powdery mildew disease of beans in India causes major economic losses in agriculture. For sustainable agriculture, detection and identification of diseases in plants is very important. In this review, we are trying to identify the powdery mildew disease of beans crop by using some image processing and pattern recognition techniques and comparing with molecular and spectroscopic techniques. Earl...

background there has been no data on population based dietary patterns during the ramadan fasting month. objectives the purpose of this study was to detect ramadan major dietary patterns among those who fast in tehran. materials and methods this cross-sectional study included 600 subjects, aged 18-65 with body mass index (bmi) of 18.5-40, who had decided to fast during ramadan. anthropometric m...

Restrained eating is a pattern of chronic dietary restriction interspersed with episodes of disinhibited overeating. The present study investigated whether this eating pattern is related to altered electrocortical processing of appetitive food stimuli in two different motivational contexts. Restrained (n=19) and unrestrained eaters (n=21) passively viewed high-caloric food pictures, along with ...

In our literature research, we have not found any study reporting the association between the major dietary patterns and the risk of hyperuricemia in a middle-aged Chinese population. Herein, the present study aimed to evaluate the association of dietary patterns with the risk of hyperuricemia in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, East China. We included 1204 participants (743 males and 4...

OBJECTIVE To determine (i) the importance of parents’ motives for everyday family food choices; and (ii) the relationship between parental food choice motives and eating patterns of 12- to 13-year-old children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. A modified version of the Food Choice Questionnaire was used to determine parental motives for food choices. The children’s food and drink intake was repo...