Iron deficiency in developing countries is attributed to the bioavailability of iron derived from staple food such as grains, vegetables and legumes. Sodium iron ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (NaFeEDTA), a strong metal chelator, is one of the food additives for iron fortification and it has been used for improvement of iron deficiency in the world. However, the effect of NaFeEDTA on the absor...

This paper presents a features extraction module for isolated handwritten Arabic characters. The collected core features are based on pixels orientations according to Freeman chain code. The input to this module is Arabic character (in its basic-shapes i.e. without diacritics). The features extractor module, fed with a skeleton of an isolated character basic-shape, yields global and local featu...

A target tracking system based on radar and image information fusion is studied in this paper, the idea of " feedback + guide " is presented. The fusion information coming from fusion center is fed to the local sensors as their initial value. The distance element and angle elements are used to guide image sensor to track target. Angle elements are used to guide radar to do the same thing. This ...

Mice fed a diet low in many trace elements and raised in an environment where contamination from extraneous trace ele ments was controlled were given small amounts (5 jig/ml) of arsenite, germanate, stannous, or vanadyl ions in drinking water for their life times. Animals receiving arsenite had a significantly decreased incidence of all tumors, and of tumors of the lung, compared to those recei...

Aquatic weeds are widely used as animal feed in developing countries. However, information about element bioavailability from these plants is lacking. A combination of an in vitro method [physiologically based extraction test (PBET)] and an in vivo feeding trial was used in this study to investigate potential element bioaccessibility and estimated bioavailability of Pistia stratiotes (PS). Cu, ...

The threat that forest fragmentation and habitat loss presents for several Alouatta taxa requires us to determine the key elements that may promote the persistence of howler monkeys in forest fragments and to evaluate how changes in the availability of these elements may affect their future conservation prospects. In this study we analyzed the relationship between the availability of both big t...

In this work a determination of selected elements in the infant formulas commercially available on the Polish market was done. 14 different materials (milk-based formulas and grain porridges) were analyzed. Both, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) were applied for the determination of As, Cr, Fe and Se, which are recognized ...

Mice fed a diet low in many trace elements and raised in an environment where contamination from extraneous trace ele ments was controlled were given small amounts (5 jig/ml) of arsenite, germanate, stannous, or vanadyl ions in drinking water for their life times. Animals receiving arsenite had a significantly decreased incidence of all tumors, and of tumors of the lung, compared to those recei...

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