Giardia intestinalis infection is prevalent throughout the world and widely distributed in developing countries. In general, children display serious consequences to their state of health, including slow height-weight development; therefore, the main aim of this study was to determine the association between Giardia infection and the nutritional status of children who participate in the program...

The Mana Kai Framework is a set of values, goals and objectives to improve the food provisioning system in Aotearoa New Zealand, developed through round nationwide consultations, with ultimate purpose informing national strategy. This article builds upon Kai, finding that consultation process assumed only growth economy future; second using degrowth lens, it argued, would produce valuable alter...

Hidekazu Tanaka ([email protected]) Mana Hiraishi ([email protected]) Tatsuya Miyoshi ([email protected]) Takayuki Tsuji ([email protected]) Akihiro Kaneko ([email protected]) Keiko Ryo ([email protected]) Kohei Yamawaki ([email protected]) Yuko Fukuda ([email protected]) Kazuko Norisada ([email protected]) Kazuhiro Tatsumi (kt...

Changes in the biosynthesis of individual carotenoid pigments have been investigated during fruit ripening of five cultivars of red pepper (Capsicum annuum L.): Mana, Numex, Belrubi, Delfin, and Negral (a chlorophyll-retaining mutant when ripe). The study was carried out throughout the ripening process, and with special emphasis on the ripe stage, to discover possible differences between cultiv...

A new species of scorpion belonging to the genus Auyantepuia González-Sponga, 1978 (family Chactidae Pocock, 1893) is described on the basis of three specimens collected in a rainforest formation located in Saut Sabbat, South of Mana, French Guiana. This is the tenth species of the Guiano-Amazonian genus Auyantepuia, and the fifth reported from French Guiana.

A dual-marker plasmid containing the selectable marker gene, manA, and the reporter gene, sgfp, was used to transform immature sorghum embryos by employing an Agrobacterium-mediated system. Both genes were under the control of the ubi1 promoter in a binary vector pPZP201. The Escherichia coli phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) gene, pmi, was used as the selectable marker gene and mannose was used a...

of Clostridium difficile and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus? Abhishek Deshpande, MD, PhD; Jennifer Cadnum, BS; Dennis Fertelli; Brett Sitzlar, BS; Priyaleela Thota, MD; Thriveen Mana, MS, MBA; Annette Jencson, BSMT(ASCP)SM, CIC; Erica Pozwick; Holly Doehring; Jizal Seikali, BS; Curtis J. Donskey, MD; Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Medicine, Case Western Reser...

We examined the bioactivity of Yamato-mana (Brassica rapa L. Oleifera Group) constituent glucosinolates and found that 3-butenyl glucosinolate (gluconapin) decreased the plasma triglyceride gain induced by corn oil administration to mice. However, phenethyl glucosinolate (gluconasturtiin) had little effect. 2-Propenyl glucosinolate (sinigrin) also reduced the plasma triglyceride level, which su...