Sibutramine hydrochloride (SH) is a banned weight-loss drug, but its illegal addition to health products is still rampant. This suggests a very urgent need for a fast and precise detection method for SH. Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) is a promising candidate for this purpose, but the weak affinity between SH and bare metal limits its direct SERS detection. In the present work, β-cycl...

Abstract We apply object detection techniques based on deep convolutional blocks to end-to-end jet identification and reconstruction tasks encountered at the CERN large hadron collider (LHC). Collision events produced LHC represented as an image composed of calorimeter tracker cells are given input a Single Shot Detection network. The algorithm, named PFJet-SSD performs simultaneous localizatio...

The prevalence of child obesity has steadily increased in Western and developing countries over the last two decades, and child obesity prevention is now firmly on the agendas of nearly all major governments. We are now confronted with the challenge of what to do about the problem, and the general consensus among various academics, researchers, practitioners and administrators worldwide is that...

Marine resources represent an interesting source of active ingredients for the cosmetics industry. Algae (macro and micro) are rich in proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins (A, B, and C) and oligo-elements such as copper, iron and zinc. All those active principles play roles in hydration, firming, slimming, shine and protection. Marine organisms inhabit a wide spectrum of habitats. Pho...

The General Medical Council, which once found itself in court only when a doctor appealed to the privy council against a finding of serious professional misconduct, is facing a growing readiness of dissatisfied doctors to mount legal challenges to its practices and rulings. Dr Sidney Gee, the Harley Street slimming doctor cleared ofcharges ofmisconduct last April, started the trend when he took...

Facial expression scrutiny has attracted tremendous consciousness in the area of computer vision because it plays a prime role in the domain of human-machine communication. Smiley face expressions are generated by slimming down of facial muscles, which results in temporally buckled facial features such as eye lids, eye brows, nose, lips, and skin texture. These are evaluated by three characteri...

Herbal remedies containing aristolochic acid (AA) have been designated to be a strong carcinogen. This review summarizes major epidemiologic evidence to argue for the causal association between AA exposure and urothelial carcinoma as well as nephropathy. The exposure scenarios include the following: Belgian women taking slimming pills containing single material Guang Fang Ji, consumptions of mi...

We thank Dr. K Appelhans et al. for their comments [1] on our paper [2], published online first in April 2012. In our review, we aimed to draw the attention of physicians to the uncontrolled and increasingly alarming use of herbal products and dietary supplements in the general population. In fact, in Italy this phenomenon, though still limited, has rapidly increased over the last few years. He...