the globalisation of the commercial world, and the use of distributed working practices (Offshore/ onshore/ nearshore) has increased dramatically with the improvement of information and communication technologies. Many organisations, especially those that operate within knowledge intensive industries, have turned to distributed work arrangements to facilitate information exchange and provide co...

Reports of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals have become more frequent in recent years. This paper documents the recovery of MRSA from animals with respiratory, urinary tract or wound infection and from animals subjected to surgical procedures following treatment in one veterinary hospital and 16 private veterinary clinics in different geographical locations througho...

BACKGROUND Inadequate availability of healthy foods may be a barrier to achieving recommended diets. OBJECTIVE The objective was to study the association between the directly measured availability of healthy foods and diet quality. DESIGN We conducted a cross-sectional study of 759 participants from the Baltimore site of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Diet was characterized by u...

BACKGROUND Diet is an important factor in the prevention of chronic diseases. Analysis of secular trends of dietary patterns can be biased by energy under-reporting. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to analyse the impact of energy under-reporting on dietary patterns and secular trends in dietary patterns defined by cluster analysis. DESIGN AND METHODS Two cross-sectional popu...

Indices of association among pairs of animals in a social population naturally vary. An important question in many studies of social structure is whether this variation can be accounted for purely by random association, or whether the data give evidence for preferred association, and/or avoidance of association (Whitehead 1997; Bejder et al. 1998; Whitehead & Dufault 1999). Probably the most ap...

Title: Association between diet quality, dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study Version: 0 Date: 01 Nov 2017 Reviewer: Melanie Deschasaux Reviewer’s report: This is an interesting paper reporting on the association between diet and markers of cardiometabolic health. Strengths of this study pertains to the use of several methodological approache...

Three different mechanisms are presented to allow for the representation of 3D surfaces in such a way that key features are retained while at the same time ensuring compatibility with prediction (classification) techniques. The application domain is sheet metal forming. The representations are designed to capture the nature of the surface to be manufactured and predict deformations, known as “s...