OBJECTIVE To systematically review evidence for the effectiveness of policies, including self-regulation, aimed at reducing industrially produced trans fatty acids (TFAs) in food. METHODS The Medline, Embase and Cinahl databases were searched to identify peer-reviewed articles examining the effect of TFA policies. In addition, the first 20 pages of Google searches were examined for articles f...

The addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 to rabbit neutrophils stimulated [14C]arachidonic acid incorporation into phosphatidylinositol and lysosomal enzyme secretion. A significant increase in phosphatidylinositol labelling was observed after a 2 min exposure to 0.1 microM-ionophore A23187. Maximum increases in rate of labelling were obtained with 1 microM-ionophore A23187 within 1 min, decli...

The nutritional characteristics of chocolate products may be associated with very different, and even opposite, health effects. In the present study, we collected information on Polish market to assess: (i) characteristics; (ii) ingredient order; (iii) presence claims label; (iv) packaging (v) any association between price cocoa contents. A total 220 bars solid (90 % at least 5 ingredients) 147...

The problems of object class segmentation [2], which assigns an object label such as road or building to every pixel in the image and dense stereo reconstruction, in which every pixel within an image is labelled with a disparity [1], are well suited for being solved jointly. Both approaches formulate the problem of providing a correct labelling of an image as one of Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) e...

We describe a robust approach for linking already existing lexical/semantic hierarchies. We use a constraint satisfaction algorithm (relaxation labelling) to select –among a set of candidates– the node in a target taxonomy that bests matches each node in a source taxonomy. In this paper we present the complete mapping of the nominal, verbal, adjectival and adverbial parts of WordNet 1.5 onto Wo...

Given a graph G with n vertices and an Abelian group A of order n, an A-distance antimagic labelling of G is a bijection from V (G) to A such that the vertices of G have pairwise distinct weights, where the weight of a vertex is the sum (under the operation of A) of the labels assigned to its neighbours. An A-distance magic labelling of G is a bijection from V (G) to A such that the weights of ...

Gene expression analysis using microarrays of synthetic long oligonucleotides is limited in that it requires substantial amounts of RNA. To obtain these quantities from minute amounts of starting material, protocols were developed that linearly amplify mRNA by cDNA synthesis and in vitro transcription. Since orientation of the product is antisense (aRNA), it is inapplicable for dye-labelling by...

A k-L(2, 1)-labelling of a graph G is a mapping f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} such that |f(u)− f(v)| ≥ 2 if uv ∈ E(G) and f(u) 6= f(v) if u, v are distance two apart. The smallest positive integer k such that G admits a k-L(2, 1)-labelling is called the λ-number of G. In this paper we study this quantity for cubic Cayley graphs (other than the prism graphs) on dihedral groups, which are call...