A food (ingredient) is regarded as functional if it is satisfactorily demonstrated to affect beneficially 1 or more target functions in the body beyond adequate nutritional effects. The term inulin-type fructans covers all beta(2<--1) linear fructans including native inulin (DP 2-60, DP(av) = 12), oligofructose (DP 2-8, DP(av) = 4), and inulin HP (DP 10-60, DP(av) = 25) as well as Synergy 1, a ...

The technology of a delivery system is only one of the factors of importance when examining what does and does not work in distance education. The characteristics of the teacher and learner, and the content to be delivered, must also be examined before the delivery system is chosen, since these factors determine final learning outcomes. This paper provides a framework for categorizing distance ...

We report about the current status of the SEMSYN generation system. This system -initially implemented within a Japanese to German MT project – has been applied to a variety of generation tasks both within MT and text generation. We will work out how these applications enhanced the system's capacities. 1. THE STARTING POINT The SEMSYN project began in 1983 with an MT application as starting poi...

wk. Feed consumption, body weight and feed conversion were measured at 2, 4 and 6 wk. Carcass yield and weights of abdominal fat, gizzard and ceca were also determined at 6 wk. All birds were intramuscularly immunized with killed vaccine of Newcastle and Avian Influenza (H9 N2) at 8 d and antibody titer responses to Newcastle and Influenza were determined by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) tes...

With Thanksgiving on the horizon, many of us are planning ahead for our favorite and most elaborate meal of the year. We make shopping lists, line up our kitchen hardware, choreograph our stoves and microwaves, and delegate dessert to the people we trust. It works best when managed from the top down (by my UC Berkeley friend Matt Francis, for example), with attention to detail, careful risk ass...

An approach to forecasting the potential for flash flood–producing storms is developed, using the notion of basic ingredients. Heavy precipitation is the result of sustained high rainfall rates. In turn, high rainfall rates involve the rapid ascent of air containing substantial water vapor and also depend on the precipitation efficiency. The duration of an event is associated with its speed of ...

THE term "theory of instruction" has been in widespread use for over a decade and during that time has acquired a fairly specific meaning. By consensus it denotes a body of theory concerned with optimizing the learning process; stated otherwise, the goal of a theory of instruction is to prescribe the most effective methods for acquiring new information, whether in the form of higher order conce...

• Canadian-Origin Nutri-Pea Limited recognizes that today’s heal thconscious consumers want nutritious foods that can help them stay fit and active. However, on average, North Americans consume less than 50% of the dietary fiber levels required for good health. With the preferred food choices of today's youth, this value may dip as low as 20% — a major factor seen in contributing to the obesity...

Background Multi-ingredient pre-workout supplements (MIPS) are becoming popular dietary supplements among strength and power athletes. These products frequently include caffeine, creatine, beta-alanine, and branched-chain amino acids as the primary ingredients. When studied on an individual basis, several of these ingredients have been shown to increase muscular power following acute ingestion;...