Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are characterized by the presence of markers ultra-processing (MUP), either additives (A-MUP) or non-additive ingredients (NA-MUP). The present study aims to characterize MUP profile approximately 22,000 UPFs, representative assortments in French supermarkets. UPFs were ranked according Siga classification within five UPF technological groups, from C01 C3, depending...

BACKGROUND Food processing alters food from its natural state for safety, convenience, taste or palatability. Previous research suggests that industrially processed foods, and diets high in these products, tend to be less healthful. However, most previous work is based on household, rather than individual-level, data. Little has been reported on the relationship between processed food consumpti...

Background Uganda has embraced the strategy of virtual elimination of mother to child HIV transmission (eMTCT) by 2015 which has seen the roll out of Option B + country wide. According to the Modes of Transmission report 2009, HIV prevalence among uniformed personnel was 18.4percent, a rate that is almost three times the national average. However little has been done to reach Uganda police Forc...

In this study, an unscented particle filtering method based on an interacting multiple model (IMM) frame for a Markovian switching system is presented. The method integrates the multiple model (MM) filter with an unscented particle filter (UPF) by an interaction step at the beginning. The framework (interaction/mixing, filtering, and combination) is similar to that in a standard IMM filter, but...

1 rotational angiography 2 Chong Zhang, a) Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Mathieu De Craene, José Maŕıa Pozo, Juan 3 M. Macho, and Alejandro F. Frangi b) 4 Center for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies 5 in Biomedicine (CISTIB) Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 6 Networking Biomedical Research Center on Bioengineering, 7 Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, 8 Spain 9 Depart...

Introduction: Protection against harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV) is measured under Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) scale. The utilization of protective clothing is the best way to deal with the damage caused by ultraviolet radiation. The purpose of this study was to compare the ultraviolet ray protective factor of pure cotton and cotton coated with ti...

The human Upf (hUpf) proteins work at the core of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. The three hUpf proteins, hUpf1, hUpf2 and hUpf3, form the hUpf complex, which is critical for the recognition and degradation of mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). The recognition of PTC-containing mRNAs by the hUpf complex in mammalian cells is promoted by the splicing dependent...

Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) integrated system involves nonlinear motion state and measurement models. However, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is commonly used as the estimation filter, which might lead to solution divergence. This is usually encountered during GPS outages, when low-cost micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) inertial se...

An important limitation of automatic evaluation metrics is that, when comparing Machine Translation (MT) to a human reference, they are often unable to discriminate between acceptable variation and the differences that are indicative of MT errors. In this paper we present UPF-Cobalt evaluation system that addresses this issue by penalizing the differences in the syntactic contexts of aligned ca...

Worldwide, ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is rising. Children and adolescent are age groups most affected by the increased of such products. The aim this pilot trial was to develop a health promotion intervention that increases literacy on UPF among Portuguese adolescents. A public school from district Porto chosen convenience. From 10 total classes (242 students) registered in seventh ...