Nutrient content can vary as much between different varieties of the same foods, as they do among different foods. Knowledge of varietal differences can therefore mean the difference between nutrient adequacy and inadequacy. The FAO/INFOODS food composition database for biodiversity has been developed with analytical data for foods described at the level of variety, cultivar and breed, and for ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a frequent cause of medically refractory partial epilepsy. The visual identification of FCD lesions on magnetic resonance images (MRI) is a challenging task in standard radiological analysis. Quantitative image analysis which tries to assist in the diagnosis of FCD lesions is an active field of research. In this work we investigate the potential of different te...

Data quality is a critical factor in scientific information systems, especially taking into account the fact that the methods used to capture data are constantly being revised and improved which means that data collected over time may have variable quality. We present an approach that we implemented for giving feedback on data quality and report on a study of its use in the food sciences. We di...

Fish rolls are a popular value-added, fish based, ready-to-eat food snack sold in Lagos, South west Nigeria. The study was carried out to determine nutritional composition of commercially fish rolls available in some parts of Lagos metropolis. Six brands of fish rolls were collected and analyzed for proximate composition and energy values with a view to evaluate their levels of nutrients. The n...

The changing frequency of extreme climate events generally has profound impacts on our living environment and decision-makers. Based on the daily temperature and precipitation data collected from 753 stations in China during 1961–2005, the geographically weighted regression GWR model is used to investigate the relationship between the index of frequency of extreme precipitation FEP and other cl...

In general, traffic service quality can be described by different parameters and the traffic level of service (LOS) is mainly determined by one of them, such as traffic flow or traffic speed. However, the traffic phenomenon is extremely complex; its characteristics cannot be well represented only by one single parameter. The aim of this research is to determine a more representable LOS based on...

The nutrition transition relates to broad patterns of diet, activity and body composition that have defined our nutritional status in various stages of history. The world is rapidly shifting from a dietary period in which the higher income countries were dominated by patterns of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NR-NCDs; while the lower and middle world were dominated by receding fam...

Notwithstanding a growth in popularity and consumption of gluten-free (GF) food products, there is a lack of substantiated analysis of the nutritional quality compared with their gluten-containing counterparts. To put GF foods into proper perspective both for those who need it (patients with celiac disease) and for those who do not, we provide contemporary data about cost and nutritional qualit...

The paper presents research on large-scale microscopic simulation of taxi services in Berlin and Barcelona based on floating car data collected by local taxi fleets. Firstly, Berlin’s and Barcelona’s taxi markets are shortly described and the demand and supply data obtained from FCD analysed. Secondly, the online taxi dispatching problem formulation for this specific case is given, followed by ...

A proposal for designing and developing a European Repository of Knowledge on Advanced Food Composition Tables (FCTs), based on the existing national FCTs, is proposed in this paper. The requirements of the system, the interoperability strategies, and the cooperation of each national FCT for maintaining and updating the repository are discussed.