BACKGROUND The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest federal nutrition assistance program. In recent years, SNAP participation rates increased during times of economic hardship. OBJECTIVE We examined whether household SNAP participation was associated with adiposity and metabolic risk factors in a representative sample of low-income US adults. DESIGN A cross-sectio...

A brief review is offered of the theoretical background concerning dark energy: what is required by observations, what sort of models are being considered, and how they fit into particle physics and gravitation. Contribution to the SNAP (SuperNova Acceleration Probe) Yellow Book.

We investigate the potential of a future supernova data set, as might be obtained by the proposed SNAP satellite, to discriminate among different "dark energy" theories that describe an accelerating Universe. We find that many such models can be distinguished with a fit to the effective pressure-to-density ratio w of this energy. More models can be distinguished when the effective slope dw/dz o...

High quality material production has been among the work of many researchers in recent years. These materials, which are obtained mostly by composite enable lighter, more durable and less costly products. Increasing environmental pollution years, protection natural resources ensuring recycling have increased importance wood plastic production. In this study, was using ABS (Acrylonitrile butadie...

Many tools exist today for generating and processing graphs, including NetworkX, iGraph, and SNAP [4, 3, 5]. These tools come pre-packaged with a library of common graph algorithms that make executing graph computations often as simple as one line of python. These tools, however, are limited to working on graph datasets that fit in local memory. Pregel, Grappa, PowerGraph, and GraphX [8, 9, 7, ...

abstract background: clinical risk index of babies (crib), score for neonatal acute physiology (snap), an update of the clinical risk index for babies score (crib ii) and score for neonatal acute physiology - perinatal extension (snap-pe) are scoring devices developed in neonatal intensive care units. this study reviewed these scoring systems in critically ill neonates to determine how well the...