Natural substances are generally preferred over chemical ones and are generally seen as healthy. The increasing demand for natural ingredients, improving health and appearance, is also attracting beverages as the fastest growing segment on the functional food market. Functional beverages are launched as fortified water, tea, diary or juices claiming overall nutrition, energy, anti-aging or rela...

Cereal industry and its derived products have a big economic and social importance worldwide. Therefore, as wheat flour is a commodity for all bread and bakery industry, it is safety is of high nutrition and toxicological interest. In this investigation we intend to study and determine the content of twelve metals in 50 samples of wheat flour coming from a wheat flour industry. Macro elements s...

BACKGROUND Measurement of nebulizer medication adherence that relies on self-report of medication use is subject to recall bias and increased patient burden. Electronic monitoring of nebulizer medication use is relatively new technology and provides an objective measure of nebulizer use. OBJECTIVE To examine levels of agreement for nebulizer use between self-report on diary cards and electron...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the usefulness of daily pain management diaries to outpatients with cancer who participated in a randomized clinical trial of the PRO-SELF Pain Control Program. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial in which a daily pain management diary was used for data collection in the control group and for data collection and nurse coaching regarding the pain management program ...

Diary methods allow researchers to study marital and family processes within the context of daily life in a way that is not possible with more traditional methods. The authors review applications of diary designs in marital and family research and detail the types of research questions that can uniquely be asked of dyadic/family diary data. Technological developments for the use of electronic p...

The limited supply of beef cattle is one of the greatest challenges facing the beef industry globally and is a factor reflected in the annual decline in fed cattle harvest. Calf-fed Holsteins (CFH) represent an opportunity to fill the void in beef cattle supply; however, because of the differences that exist compared with beef cattle, a science based approach is required to optimize production ...

In mammals, lactation can be the most energetically expensive part of the reproductive cycle. Thus, when energy needs are compromised due to predation risk, environmental disturbance, or resource scarcity, future reproductive success can be impacted. In marine and terrestrial environments, foraging behavior is inextricably linked to predation risk. But quantification of foraging energetics for ...

Backgrounds: Milk well- known important source of human nutrition and contain considerable amounts macro micronutrients have enormous health benefit. This study was performed to determine the nutritional knowledge benefit diary dairy products consumption among medical students at Benghazi university. Methodology: a cross section comprised 541 from branches faculties in which 290 female 251 male...