OBJECTIVE Several provincial and federal bills have recommended various forms of menu labelling that would require information beyond just calories; however, the additional benefit of including sodium information is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine whether sodium information on menus helps consumers make lower-sodium choices and to understand what other factors influence th...

BACKGROUND Jellyfish stings are a common occurrence among ocean goers worldwide with an estimated 150 million envenomations annually. Fatalities and hospitalizations occur annually, particularly in the Indo-Pacific regions. A new topical jellyfish sting inhibitor based on the mucous coating of the clown fish prevents 85% of jellyfish stings in laboratory settings. The field effectiveness is unk...

AIMS to assess and compare nutritional status and functional capacity of elderly goers of groups for guided physical activity or for guided recreational activities. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 210 elderly (60 years old or more) of coexistence groups (for physical or recreational activities). Nutritional status was assessed by the Mini Nutritional Assessment and Body Mass Index. Muscle ...

Quality of life (QOL) is a broad, multiply determined construct with both objective and subjective components. Objective indicators of QOL can include physiological markers of fitness and disease, a nation’s Gross Domestic Products, marital status, church attendance, or even the number of minutes per day spent laughing. But objective indicators do not always reflect one’s own assessment of or s...

Social learning is thought to be a key determinant of the demand for motion pictures. This can be a double-edged sword for motion picture distributors, however, because when a film is good, social learning can enhance the effectiveness of movie advertising, but when a film is bad, it can mitigate this effectiveness. This paper analyzes an equilibrium model of the demand for films and the supply...

I have been requested to put on paper a few facts relative to the cooling of the body after death. The subject, of interest generally, has become of special importance owing to the late trial, for murder, of a man named Gardner. This man was found guilty and doomed to be publicly strangled. His fate turned exclusively on the vague question whether a dead body could become cold on the external s...

Although studies have been performed identifying bacteria present in seagull guano, limited studies have been done with fungi, leaving a significant gap in our knowledge of a potentially significant reservoir of human disease. If pathogenic fungi are being deposited by seagulls in their feces then it is possible that the Department of Health might elect to monitor sand, as well as water, for a ...

Any visit to the seashore will confirm that it is more difficult to build a large sandcastle if one locates the project too near the lapping waves of the ocean. The sandcastle may grow well initially, but eventually a rouge wave washes out some portion of the progress. It may be possible for the sandcastle to grow on net, so long as investment in building outpaces losses to the waves, but it mu...