I present NUT, a tool for understanding the nutritional content of what we eat. The project consists of a rapid prototyping and analysis phase, as well as a design study documenting the development of the NUT prototype. The goal of NUT is to support users in making healthy choices about what to eat by visualizing nutritional information in the context of the whole food. This report outlines the...

Uganda suffers from a high rate of child mortality which has improved little if at all in the last twenty years. The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming thro...

This paper discusses a speciic feature of structural synthesis of programs. Using regular data structures enables to optimize the method of structural synthesis of programs for several particular cases. The method for program construction described here is implemented in the NUT programming system.

The ubiquitin/proteasome system (UPS), a major cellular protein degradation machinery, plays key roles in the regulation of many cell functions. Glucotoxicity mediated by chronic hyperglycaemia is detrimental to the function and survival of pancreatic beta cells. The aim of our study was to determine whether proteasome dysfunction could be involved in beta cell apoptosis in glucotoxic condition...

This article explores the characteristics of venture business and entrepreneurs in Korea to (1) identify technology transfer activities, (2) analyze the differences between technology transfer in linear and nonlinear venture businesses, and (3) guide more effective venture business policy and strategy. This empirical assessment reveals that entrepreneurs have insightful evaluations about their ...

This retrospective study compared one-visit versus two-visit endodontic treatment. The same technique and materials were used before and after making the sole change to one-visit endodontic treatment in 1991. Treatment records of 402 consecutive patients with pulpally necrotic first and second molars were compared. In 201 patients, treatment was provided by debridement and instrumentation, foll...

BACKGROUND During myogenesis several transcription factors and regulators of protein synthesis and assembly are rapidly degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Given the potential role of the deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) ataxin-3 in the UPS, and the high expression of the murine ataxin-3 homolog in muscle during embryogenesis, we sought to define its role in muscle differentiation. ...

In each dimension N ≥ 3 and for each real number λ ≥ 1, we construct a family of complete rotationally symmetric solutions to Ricci flow on R which encounter a global singularity at a finite time T . The singularity forms arbitrarily slowly with the curvature blowing up arbitrarily fast at the rate (T − t)−(λ+1). Near the origin, blow-ups of such a solution converge uniformly to the Bryant soli...

Background and Objectives: Given the limited number of studies on Ramadan fasting and military performance, we conducted this study to identify the effect of Ramadan fasting on physical fitness performances in army cadets. Methods: Twenty healthy males were randomly selected from a larger sample group. The subjects were divided into fasting (n=10) and non-fasting (n=10) groups. They performed v...

Juvenile crayfish [Cambarus bartonii cavatus] were taken from two nearby sites on Big Four Creek, Vinton County, OH. Water from upstream (UpS) and downstream (DnS) sites had total conductivities of 250 |iS and 600 \xS (|J,S = jimho/cm) at 25° C. Non-carbonate conductivity was largely made up of sulfuric acid and heavy metals. Carbonates represented 40% of the conductivity at UpS but were absent...