McClugage and Mendel (1) found the calcium of carrots and spinach to be poorly utilized by dogs. Rose (2), in calcium balance experiments with healthy young women whose intake was close to the estimated minimum for equilibrium, found the calcium of carrots almost as well utilized as that of milk, the carrots furnishing half or more of the total calcium of a mixed diet. Blatherwick and Long (3) ...

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves. Two papers in this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases focus on food safety from 2 different angles. First, in an elegant work from Finnish investigators [1], the culprit behind an epidemic caused by Yer-sinia pseudotuberculosis was uncovered: grated carrots. The same serotype and pulsed-fiel gel electrophoresis (PFGE) type ...

BACKGROUND Much of the work of teachers and leaders at academic health centers involves engaging learners and faculty members in shared goals. Strategies to do so, however, are seldom informed by empirically-supported theories of human motivation. DISCUSSION This article summarizes a substantial body of motivational research that yields insights and approaches of importance to academic facult...

In this note, we introduce two distinct incentive mechanisms that support dynamic intra-group cooperation in the context of prisoner’s dilemma payoffs. The first mechanism involves a reward structure—a carrot—that supports both triadic and tripartite group relations. The second mechanism involves a punishment structure—a stick—that supports tripartite group relations. We also discuss how these ...

COURSES 2016-17 • Carrots, Sticks, Norms, and Nudges: Changing Minds and Behaviors: LAW 7501 (Spr) • Policy Practicum: California Prop. 64 and Marijuana Policy: LAW 805T (Win) 2015-16 • Law and Psychology: LAW 534 (Win) • Research Design for Empirical Legal Studies: LAW 712 (Aut) 2014-15 • Law and Psychology: LAW 534 (Win) • Policy Practicum: Analyzing Alternative Laws and Policies for Psychoac...

This study investigated the effects of different home food preparation methods on availability of total phenolic contents (TPC) and radical scavenging components, as well as the selected health beneficial compounds from fresh blueberry and carrot. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis revealed that ground carrots using blenders released significantly greater amount of β-caroten...

Purple carrots (Daucus carota ssp. sativus var. atrorubens Alef.) accumulate large amounts of cyanidin-based anthocyanins in their taproots. Cyanidin can be glycosylated with galactose, xylose, and glucose in sequence by glycosyltransferases resulting in cyanidin 3-xylosyl (glucosyl) galactosides in purple carrots. The first step in the glycosylation of cyanidin is catalysis by UDP-galactose: c...