objective: profound consumption of medicinal plants products worldwide and public misconception of the products safety puts the urgent need forward as to evaluation of their safe and harmful aspects. in the present study the lavandula angustifolia essential oil was studied with a view to the foregoing criteria. materials and methods: the antimicrobial, antioxidative, hematologic and cytotoxic ...

In order to investigate the determinants of childhood overweight and obesity in China, the prevalence of overweight (including obesity) was compared according to different dietary and physical activity patterns and parental body weight status. A total of 6826 children aged 7-17 years from the 2002 China National Nutrition and Health Survey were included in the study. Information for dietary int...

REPLY: We welcome the acknowledgment from members of the marine oil industry that further studies are necessary to establish the potential harm posed by consumption of oxidized fish oils during pregnancy. This will require dose-response studies in animals and the identification of the harmful compounds to accurately quantify the risk, which we had already planned to perform. However, a number o...

Under the situation that single prediction can’t meet the accuracy requirements, combined forecasting method is usually the first choice. Using the history data of domestic oil products consumption, by optimized combination of grey forecasting GM(1, 1) model and artificial neural network, the combined forecasting model was built. It can be getting from the combined forecasting model that on the...

This study investigated the formation of secondary pollutants resulting from household product use in the presence of ozone. Experiments were conducted in a 50-m chamber simulating a residential room. The chamber was operated at conditions relevant to US residences in polluted areas during warm-weather seasons: an air exchange rate of 1.0 h 1 and an inlet ozone concentration of approximately 12...

Due to sporadic climate change and global warming, world have signed international protocols promising to reduce their nation's emissions. This study focuses on the application of the bees algorithm, embedded with an artificial neural network, to determine practical yearly reductions for minimizing oil, natural gas, and coal emissions as by-products of energy consumption in Canada's manufacturi...

The consumption of milk and unpasteurized dairy products contaminated with Brucella bacteria is one of the most important ways of brucellosis transmission to humans. The principal goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of Brucella abortus (B. abortus) and Brucella melitens (B. melitens)in unpasteurized dairy products consumed in Shiraz province. I...

OBJECTIVE To quantify marine food product consumption and EPA + DHA intake among Quebecers, and to compare the results with the most recent recommendations. DESIGN Data were obtained from a representative cross-sectional telephone survey (June 2006). Intakes of marine food product species and EPA + DHA were estimated from a validated FFQ on the consumption of marine food products during the p...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative importance of the individual components of the Mediterranean diet in generating the inverse association of increased adherence to this diet and overall mortality. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Greek segment of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC). PARTICIPANTS 23 349 men and women, not previously diagnosed...

s teel industries play a key role in the national economy and welfare of the society in many steel manufacturer countries. it is found that manufacturing and consuming of steel products would be a key indicator to measure and evaluate economic and industrial performance of a country. nowadays, countries with the large natural oil and gas resources (e.g. iran) attempt to select an alternative ec...