BACKGROUND The electronic Dietary Intake Assessment (e-DIA), a digital entry food record mobile phone app, was developed to measure energy and nutrient intake prospectively. This can be used in monitoring population intakes or intervention studies in young adults. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the relative validity of e-DIA as a dietary assessment tool for energy and nutrient intakes ...

The rapid growth of digital libraries (DLs) worldwide poses many new challenges for document image analysis (DIA) research and development. DLs promise to offer more people access to larger document collections, and at far greater speed, than physical libraries can. But DLs also tend, for many reasons, to serve poorly, or even to omit entirely, many types of non-digital human–legible media, suc...

OBJECTIVE To compare Masson's trichrome (MT), Sirius red (SR) and orcein staining in acute hepatitis (AH) and to correlate them with transient elastography (TE), a noninvasive method to assess hepatic fibrosis. METHODS We evaluated liver stiffness by TE in a cohort of 34 consecutive patients and assessed MT-, SR- and orcein-stained biopsies using the METAVIR scoring system and digital image a...

Recently, it was shown that proportional relationships exist between systolic, diastolic and mean pulmonary artery pressure (P(sys), P(dia) and P(mean)) and that they are maintained under various conditions in both health and disease. An arterial-ventricular interaction model was used to study the contribution of model parameters to the ratios P(sys)/P(mean), and P(dia)/P(mean). The heart was m...

The study was aimed at finding the effect of garlic and resveratrol on loss of β-cells and diabetic complication in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced Type-I diabetic rats. Rats were injected with single dose STZ (50 mg/kg, i.p.) for induction of type 1 diabetes (Dia) and compared with control group. Rats from third (Dia+Gar), fourth (Dia+Resv), and fifth (Dia+Met) groups were fed raw garlic homogena...

The delivery and the adaptation of multimedia content in distributed and heterogeneous environments require flexible control and management mechanisms in terminals and/or in control entities inside the network to enable terminal and application mobility. It is important to reach interoperability between the IETF approaches and the MPEG-21 DIA efforts for multimedia streaming and adaptation to c...

(Photosynthetic responses of tropical tree species from different successional groups under contrasting irradiance conditions). This study evaluated the photosynthetic responses of seven tropical trees of different successional groups under contrasting irradiance conditions, taking into account changes in gas exchange and chlorophyll a fluorescence. Although early successional species have show...

background: organophosphorus (op) compounds are used to control pests, however they can reach the food chain and enter the human body causing serious health problems by means of acetylcholinesterase (ache) inhibition and oxidative stress (os). among the ops, chlorpyrifos (chp), malathion (mal), and diazinon (dia) are commonly used for commercial extermination purposes, in addition to veterinary...