FAO, and its Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, needs to maintain its strong and active role in the field of nutrition by providing an agricultural and food friendly perspective to nutritional problems and therefore a food and agriculture approach to their solution. This underlies the importance of FAO for nutrition and the importance of nutrition for FAO. FAO cannot leave it to other ...

This paper studies correction for chance in coefficients that are linear functions of the observed proportion of agreement. The paper unifies and extends various results on correction for chance in the literature. A specific class of coefficients is used to illustrate the results derived in this paper. Coefficients in this class, e.g. the simple matching coefficient and the Dice/Sørenson coeffi...

We study one-loop corrections to the Chern-Simons coefficient κ in abelian self-dual Chern-Simons Higgs systems and their N = 2 and N = 3 supersymmetric generalizations in both symmetric and asymmetric phases. One-loop corrections to the Chern-Simons coefficient of these systems turn out to be integer multiples of 1/4π in both phases. Especially in the maximally supersymmetric N = 3 case, the c...

Myocardial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) imaging is a noninvasive technique that can measure FAO rates in tissues for research applications in animals and humans, as well as clinical applications in managing patients with metabolic disorders. FAO imaging has great potential in diagnosis and monitoring of patients with ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, acute coronary syndrome, ...

INTRODUCTION In-brace radiographic correction is considered a reliable check of brace efficacy. The aim of this study was to correlate the in-brace correction with the short term results of treatment (6 months). METHODS DESIGN pre-post study POPULATION 41 consecutive adolescent girls with idiopathic scoliosis who were prescribed a brace treatment (39 thoracic curves, 37±12°; 16 thoracolu...

This paper studies correction for chance for coefficients that are linear functions of the proportion of observed agreement. The fixed points of the correction for chance function are characterized. An equivalence relation on the set of linear functions is defined and it is shown that each linear function is mapped to the unique fixed point in its equivalence class. keywords: Chance-corrected c...

Zamra catchment, Upper Tekeze Basin, Northern Ethiopia. Direct field estimates of potential evapotranspiration (PET) remain a challenge, because they are expensive and have limited spatial representativeness. An alternative is to derive PET by remote sensing as product reference (ETo) land use-land cover (LULC) factor (Kc). The aims this study were to: i) validate satellite-derived Daily Refere...

displacement coefficient method (dcm) stipulated in the asce 41-06 standard is becoming the preferred method for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in many high-seismic-hazard countries. applications of the method for non-building constructions such as bridges are beyond the scope of this standard. thus its application to this kind of structure should be approached with care. target displaceme...

We have previously shown that fatty acid oxidation (FAO) is required for AMP-activated protein kinase (PRKA)-induced maturation in vitro. In the present study, we have further investigated the role of this metabolic pathway in hormone-induced meiotic maturation. Incorporating an assay with (3)H-palmitic acid as the substrate, we first examined the effect of PRKA activators on FAO levels. There ...