More micro-preemie infants born with birth weight (BW) under 750 grams are surviving advances in neonatal care. However, their management is challenging, often unclear, and fraught wide variations clinical practice. Nutritional care of these at the edge viability a complex, multi-faceted issue. Their early nutritional status has short long-term implications. For extended periods, need for centr...

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is common in patients with esophageal and esophagogastric cancer. Compared to patients with other digestive and extradigestive neoplasia, the highest incidence (78.9%) was found in those with esophageal cancer. Malnutrition is associated with postoperative complications, increased morbidity, and prolonged hospital stays. METHODS: The authors review the impact and causes...

Background. A common site for neonatal intestinal obstruction is the duodenum. Delayed establishment of enteral nutritional autonomy continues to challenge surgeons and, since early institution of nutritional support is critical in postoperative newborns, identification of patients likely to require alternative nutritional support may improve their outcomes. Therefore, we aimed to investigate r...

From the basic impact of nutrient intake on health maintenance to the psychosocial benefits of mealtime, great advancements in nutritional sciences for support of human space travel have occurred over the past 50 years. Nutrition in space has many areas of impact, including provision of required nutrients and maintenance of endocrine, immune, and musculoskeletal systems. It is affected by envir...

Food high in energy but low in nutritional value is an important contributor to several serious illnesses, and one type of food that is particularly high in energy but low in nutrition is food consumed away from home. In this paper, we examine the demand and willingness to pay for healthy, Keyhole-labelled meals. A Keyhole-labelled meal is particularly low in energy, fat, sugar and salt, but pa...

We describe tests of a spaceborne, radar-system concept envisioned to measure the spatial reflectivity and the 3dimensional surface and basal topography of terrestrial ice sheets and to determine the physical properties of the glacier bed. We conducted experiments during May 2006 over northwestern Greenland using a 150 MHz radar operated from a Twin Otter aircraft. We conducted more extensive e...

Oligochaete worms are often the dominant organisms present in contaminated sediment in the field. Bioturbation, the reworking of sediments or soils by organisms, can be a significant fate and transport mechanism in contaminated sediment systems. The fate of pyrene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, subjected to oligochaete bioturbation is the focus of this paper. Limnodrilus cervix, a represen...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease. It affects multiple body organs. The lungs and pancreas are the most affected which results in progressive lung damage and pancreatic insufficiency. Due to the disease process, CF patients require significantly higher caloric intake than recommended for other individuals. The nutritional goal for CF patients is to achieve normal growth and...