Food contact materials (FCMs) are intended to be in contact with food during production, handling or storage. They are one possible source of food contamination, because chemicals may migrate from the material into the food. More than 6000 FCM substances appear on regulatory or non-regulatory lists. Some of these substances have been linked to chronic diseases, whilst many others lack (sufficie...

Curtis H. Martin is Professor of Political Science at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He is co-author of Politics East and West: A Comparison of British and Japanese Political Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1992) and author of “President Clinton’s Haiti Dilemma” (Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, 1997). LESSONS OF THE AGREED FRAMEWORK FOR USING ENGAGEMENT AS A NONPROLIFERATIO...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between baseline peritoneal transport types and nutritional status in Chinese continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. In the present single-centre, prospective study, incident CAPD patients were included from 15 April 2010 to 31 December 2011 and were followed up for 12 months. According to the results of baseli...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Malnutrition is highly prevalent in Malaysian dialysis patients and there is a need for a valid screening tool for early identification and management. This cross-sectional study aims to examine the sensitivity of the Dialysis Malnutrition Score (DMS) and Malnutrition Inflammation Score (MIS) tools in predicting protein-energy wasting (PEW) among Malaysian dialysis pat...

ABSTRACT It is increasingly common for government and industry organizations to conduct online, opt-in surveys, in part because they are typically fast, inexpensive, and convenient. Online polls, however, a�ract a non-representative set of respondents, and so it is unclear whether results from such surveys generalize to the broader population. �ese non-representative surveys stand in contrast t...

Recent data of two-body nonleptonic B meson decays allow a topological-amplitude analysis up to the O(λ2) accuracy, where λ denotes the Wolfenstein parameter. We find an exact solution from the B → ππ data and an exact solution from the B → Kπ data, which satisfy the approximate SU(3) flavor symmetry. These solutions indicate that the color-suppressed tree amplitude is large, all other amplitud...

Future many-core systems need to address the dark silicon problem, where some cores would be turned off control chip’s thermal and power density, which effectively limits performance gain from having a large number of processing cores. Task migration technique has been previously proposed improve system by moving tasks between active As task imposes overhead due wake-up latency cores, this pape...