Background: Black spots are a major problem in commercial shrimp species and can have negative effects on shrimps' appearance, quality, shelf life, economic value, and product acceptance by consumers. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of orange peel extract on chemical and sensory qualities as well as black spots on Litopenaeus vannamei species of white farmed shrimp. Methods: ...

Introduction: Various intraoral digital radiographic systems are available as an alternative to film-based radiography. Recent rapid progress in the field of digital radiography offers the possibility of image processing and manipulation. Pseudocolor filter is one of the tools of digital systems. The aim of this study was to compare diagnostic accuracy of proximal caries in black and white a...

Replication efforts involving large samples are recommended in helping to determine the reliability of an effect. This approach was taken for a study from Meier, Robinson, and Clore (2004), one of the first papers in social cognition guided by conceptual metaphor theory, which reported that evaluations were faster when word valence metaphorically matched (e.g., a word with a negative meaning in...

BACKGROUND Black-white disparities exist in receipt of recommended medical care, including colorectal cancer treatment. This retrospective cohort study examines the degree to which health systems (e.g., physician, hospital) factors explain black-white disparities in colon cancer care. METHODS Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program; Medicare claims; the American Medi...

In a study of the neural components of automatic and controlled social evaluation, White participants viewed Black and White faces during event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. When the faces were presented for 30 ms, activation in the amygdala-a brain region associated with emotion-was greater for Black than for White faces. When the faces were presented for 525 ms, this differen...

Based on the Normative Hypothesis, theorists have believed that differences in sexuality among black and white males would affect each group differently due to the disparate cultural norms. The current study evaluates the relationship between adolescent sexual attitudes and timing of first sexual intercourse as factors affecting problem behaviors, suicidal thoughts, and sense of security among ...

This study assessed whether certain clinicopathologic variables could explain the impact of race on outcome in 86 patients who had severe lupus nephritis and were available for long-term follow-up after participating in a prospective, controlled, clinical trial. Fifty-four (63%) patients were white, 21 (24%) were black, and 11 (13%) were categorized as other. The proportion of patients with ant...

OBJECTIVE To determine differences in the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its fundus manifestations in a population-based sample of older black and white Americans. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study of 2520 participants of whom 1854 are white and 666 are black. Mean age was 73.5 years. Stereoscopic color fundus photographs were graded for presence, severit...

The recent arrival in Israel of thousands refugees from countries like Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan has triggered a spate hate crimes mob violence. Asked about these asylum seekers 2012, Likud-party member Miri Regev called them “cancer.” For this comment, she later apologized—not to the African asylum-seekers but Israeli cancer survivors, expressed regret for comparing Africans. Around that sa...