OBJECTIVE A simple FFQ which ranks young children's dietary habits is necessary for population-based monitoring and intervention programmes. The aim of the present study was to determine the reliability and validity of a short FFQ to assess the dietary habits of young children aged 2-5 years. DESIGN Parents completed a seventeen-item FFQ for their children by telephone on two occasions, two w...

Trans fatty acids (TFA) increase the risk of mortality and chronic diseases. TFA intakes have fallen since reformulation, but may still be high in certain, vulnerable, groups. This paper investigates socio-economic and food consumption characteristics of high TFA consumers after voluntary reformulation in the Netherlands and UK. Post-reformulation data of adults aged 19-64 was analysed in two n...

Research into least fattening eating patterns indicates that in England 'a snack' is a term that refers to different eating habits from 'snacking' and that neither pattern of behaviour necessarily involves 'snack food'. These hypotheses were tested by randomised mailings to a convenience sample of university campus addressees with the subject heading of the message and the topic of questions in...

BACKGROUND Both sleep duration and screen time have been suggested to affect children's diet, although in different directions and presumably through different pathways. The present cross-sectional study aimed to simultaneously investigate the associations between sleep duration, screen time and food consumption frequencies in children. METHODS The analysis was based on 10 453 children aged 6...

Rhizoctonia stem canker and black scurf. Rhizoctonia diseases of potato are caused.Black scurf on a potato tuber caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Rhizoctonia potato disease is an important constraint to potato production. The disease.ISBN 978-952-10-5475-4 PDF http:ethesis.helsinki.fi. 2 Variation of biological traits in Rhizoctonia solani isolated from potato. Abstract Rhizoctonia solani is an im...

Although the model-theoretic semantics of the languages used in the Semantic Web are crisps, the need arise to extend them to represent fuzzy data, in the same way fuzzy logic extend first-orderlogic. We will define a fuzzy counterpart of the RDF Model Theory for RDF (section 2) and RDF Schema (section 3). Last, we show how to implement the extended semantics in inference rules (section 4).

Naive mated female cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni Hübner, responded in a flight tunnel to potted potato plants ( Solanum tuberosum ). Percentages of moths attracted to uninjured potato plants, mechanically-damaged potato plants, and potato plants treated with regurgitant from larvae of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say, were similar, indicating no effect of plant ...

A nationwide survey was performed to investigate the current incidence of viral diseases in Korean sweet potatoes for germplasm and growing fields from 2011 to 2014. A total of 83.8% of the germplasm in Korea was infected with viruses in 2011. Commercial cultivars that were used to supply growing fields were infected at a rate of 62.1% in 2012. Among surveyed viruses, the incidence of five Poty...

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Introduction Acrylamide (AA) is an important manufacturing chemical agent that is used for producing of polymers and copolymers. Also, AA has been intended for producing grouts and soil stabilizers since 1970 (1). The importance of AA as a food contamination was shown when Tareke et al. observed that feeding rats with fried feed showed a large increase in the level of the hemoglobin adduct (2)....