Many reviews support fluoride varnish (FV) as a caries-inhibitory agent. Evidence from 6 Cochrane systematic reviews involving 200 trials and more than 80,000 participants further confirms the effectiveness of FV, applied professionally 2-4 times a year, for preventing dental caries in both primary and permanent teeth. The relative benefit of FV application seems to occur irrespective of baseli...

The objective of this study was to create/test a social marketing campaign to increase fruit/vegetable (FV) intake within Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligible families. Focus groups (n = 2) and pre/post campaign phone surveys (n = 2082) were conducted in intervention counties (IC) and one control county. Participants were female (86%-100%) with 1-2 children at home. ...

INTRODUCTION A reduction in homocysteine concentration due to the use of supplemental folic acid is well recognized, although evidence of the same effect for natural folate sources, such as fruits and vegetables (FV), is lacking. The traditional statistical analysis approaches do not provide further information. As an alternative, quantile regression allows for the exploration of the effects of...

OBJECTIVES To examine the demographic and psychosocial factors associated with increased fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among smokers residing in public housing. DESIGN Cluster randomized trial of 20 public housing developments (HDs). Ten housing developments were randomly assigned to a FV intervention and 10 to a smoking cessation intervention. PRIMARY OUTCOME Change in daily FV inta...

In a report reading like a fascinating detective story, Vincent and colleagues crack the mysterious case of east Texas bleeding disorder. They show that affected individuals have a mutation in exon 13 of the coagulation F5 gene that causes increased expression of an alternatively spliced transcript, which encodes a previously unrecognized factor V (FV) isoform they call FV-short. This FV isofor...

Foamy viruses (FVs) differ from all other genera of retroviruses (orthoretroviruses) in many aspects of viral replication. In this review, we discuss FV assembly, with special emphasis on Pol incorporation. FV assembly takes place intracellularly, near the pericentriolar region, at a site similar to that used by betaretroviruses. The regions of Gag, Pol and genomic RNA required for viral assemb...

The star graph Sn has been recognized as an attractive alternative to the hypercube. Since S1; S2, and S3 have trivial structures, we focus our attention on Sn with n¿4 in this paper. Let Fv denote the set of faulty vertices in Sn. We show that when |Fv|6n− 5; Sn with n¿6 contains a fault-free path of length n! − 2|Fv| − 2 (n! − 2|Fv| − 1) between arbitrary two vertices of even (odd) distance. ...

The star graph has been recognized as an attractive alternative to the hypercube. Let Fe and Fv be the sets of vertex faults and edge faults, respectively. Previously, Tseng et al. showed that an n-dimensional star graph can embed a ring of length n! if |Fe |≤n-3 (|Fv|=0), and a ring of length at least n!-4|Fv | if |Fv |≤n-3 (|Fe |=0). Since an n-dimensional star graph is regular of degree n-1 ...

Proof. Let L be a Lipschitz constant that applies to all utility functions. Suppose each message in the set V is Lipschitz continuous with Lipschitz constant L. Consider the message from an activity a to a resource r ∈ R(a). Define X a\r , ∏r∈R(a)\r Xr to be the space of consumption bundles for activity a, excluding resource r. Without loss of generality, assume that (FV )a→r(xar) ≥ (FV )a→r(xa...

The crossed cube CQn is an important variant of the hypercube Qn and possesses many desirable properties for interconnection networks. This paper shows that in CQn with fv faulty vertices and fe faulty edges there exists a fault-free path of length ` between any two distinct fault-free vertices for each ` satisfying 2n−1 − 1 ≤ ` ≤ 2n − fv − 1 provided that fv + fe ≤ n − 3, where the lower bound...