Departamento de Ecologı́a e Hidrologı́a, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus DK-8000, Denmark, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biologı́a Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain, Departamento de Zoologı́a y Antropologı́a Fı́sica, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain, Marine Biology and Ecolog...

BACKGROUND 'Ultra-processed foods' (UPF) have been industrially processed and tend to be higher in saturated fat, sodium and sugar than other foods. There is some evidence that consumption of UPF is associated with overweight, obesity and related diseases. In developed countries more than half of dietary energy is attributed to UPF. One reason for reliance on UPF may be poor home food preparati...

AIM To describe the frequency and clinical characteristics of patients with undifferentiated periodic fever (UPF) and to investigate whether a clinical classification of UPF based on the PRINTO-Eurofever score can help predicting the response to treatment and the outcome at follow-up. METHODS Clinical and therapeutic information of patients with recurrent fever who presented at a single pedia...

OBJECTIVE To objectively evaluate voluntary nutrition and health claims and marketing techniques present on packaging of high-market-share ultra-processed foods (UPF) in Australia for their potential impact on public health. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Packaging information from five high-market-share food manufacturers and one retailer were obtained from supermarket and manufacturers' ...

Telomeres, the chromosome ends, are maintained by a balance of activities that erode and replace the terminal DNA sequences. Furthermore, telomere-proximal genes are often silenced in an epigenetic manner. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, average telomere length and telomeric silencing are reduced by loss of function of UPF genes required in the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. Because N...

In this paper, the ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) of plain knitted fabrics made from 20Ne cotton yarns, Coolmax yarn and their combinations in wet, relaxed and stretched states were studied. According to the fiber composition, fabric samples are divided into three groups including Group I (single cotton yarn), Group II (cotton/cotton combination) and Group III (Coolmax/cotton combination) ...

Textiles can provide effective protection against UV radiation because they reflect, absorb and scatter solar wavelengths. Properly designed, they significantly increase the area of covered skin. The optimal combination of thickness, fabric density, mass per unit area, knitted structure, yarn type and yarn linear density, facilitate the production of textiles with high UV protection properties....

Accurate prediction of the remaining useful life of a faulty component is important to the health management of the system. It gives operators information about when the component should be replaced. This paper studied the remaining useful life prediction of the lithium-ion batteries. Some work has been done to solve this problem, but it still remains challengeable. Particle filter (PF) is a re...

Cotton knitted fabrics were manufactured with different yarn types (conventional ring spun yarn and torque-free ring spun yarn) with different fibre types (combed cotton and combed Supima cotton) and yarn fineness (Ne30 and Ne40). These fabrics were then dyed with three types of dye (reactive, direct and sulphur dye) with three dye concentrations (0.1%, 1.0% and 5.0% on-weight of fabric (owf)) ...

The case of large azimuth misalignment angles in a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) is analyzed, and a method of using the adaptive UPF for the initial alignment is proposed. The filter is based on the idea of a strong tracking filter; through the introduction of the attenuation memory factor to effectively enhance the corrections of the current information residual error on the syst...