A potential risk of interactions between micronutrients affecting absorption and bioavailability has to be considered in any supplementation or fortification strategy. At levels of essential micronutrients present in foods, most micronutrients appear to utilise specific absorptive mechanisms and not be vulnerable to interactions. In aqueous solutions and at higher intake levels competition betw...

the relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. the selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements supplier relationship management (srm) and total quality management (tqm). much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

BACKGROUND Between 1997 and 2010, the English government pursued an ambitious programme to reduce health inequalities, the explicit and sustained commitment of which was historically and internationally unique. Previous evaluations have produced mixed results. None of these evaluations have, however, compared the trends in health inequalities within England with those in other European countrie...

Social status can influence an animal's immune and reproductive functions, eventually leading to alterations in immunocompetence and reproductive success. Here, we report that rank assessed in a food competition test, considered as an index of social status, has significant influences on humoral immune functions in male Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) living in a group. Our data reveal a...

Recognizing that established relationships enhance understanding and therefore improve clinical intuition and inference, the authors examined clinical and legal characteristics of a legally and clinically heterogeneous population of maximum security forensic hospital patients (n = 380). Several findings serve to substantiate outcomes of previous studies of subgroups of offenders. Some new relat...

ٍearly watergrass (echinochloa oryzicola (ard) fisher) is an aggressive specie of echinochloa and have mimicry chareterstics of rice . in order to evaluate competitive effect of aggressive specie of echinochloa on rice, an experiment was conducted at the rice research institute of rasht during 2007. the experimental design was complete randomized block with three replications. the treatment incl...