BACKGROUND Federal nutritional guidelines apply to school foods provided through the national school lunch and breakfast programs, but few federal regulations apply to other foods and drinks sold in schools (labeled "competitive foods"), which are often high in calories, fat and sugar. Competitive food policies among school districts are increasingly viewed as an important modifiable factor in ...

In this paper, for the first time, a comprehensive experimental study is performed on hydroforming process of metallic bellows. For this purpose, the effects of the main process parameters and their interactions on the characteristics of hydroformed metallic bellows are investigated using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The selected parameters as input variables are internal pressure, die s...

In May 2021, Chile democratically elected the people who will be part of Constituent Assembly, whose mission is to write a new constitution. Over recent months, several issues have emerged as proposals from candidates debated and introduced into future Chilean Constitution. Among these, right food, which human found in article 12 the  Additional Protocol American Convention on Human Rights matt...

This article presents the results of research into the automatic selection of Library of Congress Classification numbers based on the titles and subject headings in MARC records. The method used in this study was based on partial match retrieval techniques using various elements of new records (i.e., those to be classified) as “queries,” and a test database of classification clusters generated ...

The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) along with the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA) were honored to have been part of this outstanding Congress which marked the beginning of the new paradigm for WGO, i.e. two-yearly World Congresses, to be held in conjunction with WGO Member Societies as co-hosts! We also wish to thank the other related organizations in the field who pa...

The compounding of “sterile” products has made headlines in the news in the United States over the last several years, due the lack of sterile conditions in a compounding pharmacy causing an outbreak of fungal meningitis [1]. Although USP Chapter <797> was released in 2008 and outlines in detail procedures needed to keep pharmacies sterile, these lapses in sterility still occurred [2]. However,...

In 2009 and in 2011, the Library of Congress made two of its largestauthority files –Subject Headings and Names available as linked data via LC’slinked data service, id.loc.gov. Both are offered in MADS/RDF and SKOS. It isLC’s objective, in 2012, to publish another of its largest authority files as linkeddata: LC Classification. However, whereas the source records for Subject He...