The objective of the investigation was to analyse energy protein adequacy of the diets of Indian children residing in an urban slum. The subjects numbering 271 between the ages of 4-14 years resided in a slum in Mysore city in South India. Nutritional status of children and mothers were determined by standard procedures. Background information was obtained using questionnaire method. Dietary in...

OBJECTIVE To develop a homologous additive of human milk for feeding the very low weight infants with an original and simplified methodology, to know the nutritional composition of fortified human milk with this additive and to evaluate its suitability for feeding these infants. METHODS For the production and analysis of human milk with the homologous additive, 25 human milk samples of 45 mL ...

Contemporary pervasive computing environments demand mechanism for coherently addressing high-level user needs despite changing availability of resources. We propose the formalization of goals as the semantic basis for this mechanism, and sketch a system architecture that separates policy-rich goals-level planning code from a policy-neutral component assembly model.

The growing prevalence of multimedia systems is bringing the need for efficient techniques for storing and retrieving images into and from a database. In order to satisfy the information need of the users, it is of vital importance to effectively and efficiently adapt the retrieval process to each user. Considering this fact, an application for querying the images via their color, shape, and te...

Sustainable practices meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Applying these concepts to food and feed production, nutritional sustainability is the ability of a food system to provide sufficient energy and essential nutrients required to maintain good health in a population without compromising the ability of future generations ...

Throwers, jumpers, and combined events athletes require speed, strength, power, and a wide variety of technical skills to be successful in their events. Only a handful of studies have assessed the nutritional needs of such athletes. Because of this, recommendations for nutritional requirements to support and enhance training and competition performances for these athletes are made using researc...