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Glycemic response of fruit desserts obtained by organic farming
No full textThe awareness that food has benefits over and beyond the basic nutrients that it provides has recently emerged in nutrition, and the concept of ‘functional food’ – i.e. foods and food ingredients that can enhance health – was introduced. Recent population studies have shown that low glycemic index (GI) foods might play a role in reducing the risk chronic diseases and therefore could be considered as functional foods. Thus the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recommended that populations in industrial nations base their diet predominantly on foods with a low glycemic index to prevent the diseases of modern civilization. Moreover, international recommendations advise increasing intakes of fruit and vegetables to help reduce the burden of chronic diseases worldwide, suggesting the consumption of three to five servings of fruit and four to eight servings of vegetables per day.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute postprandial response on plasma glucose of Fruttosa, a berries and peach/apricot flavoured desserts made using exclusively organic fruits and ingredients. The GI of Fruttosa desserts was calculated using the FAO/WHO standard method, using glucose as reference standard. Postprandial glycemic responses of fruit-desserts, evaluated as incremental areas under glycemic curves (IAUC), resulted less than 50% lower than those observed for glucose meal; the calculated GI were 44± 4for the berries flavour and 47± 4 for peach/apricot dessert, values very similar to those reported for the corresponding fresh fruit.
Fruttosa desserts can be classified as low GI food and could represent a valid “ready to eat” functional product to increase fruit consumption
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Clinical and immunological effects of the long term dietary supplementation with a probiotic fermented milk in pre-school children allergic to inhalants
No full textBackground and Aims: Probiotics may have
immunomodulatory functions, exerting beneficial
effects in allergic disease. We investigated whether
prolonged daily consumption of Lactobacillus casei DN-
114 001 fermented milk improve clinical and
immunological condition of children aged 3-6 years
allergic to inhalants.
Methods: In a randomised-controlled multicentric trial
patients were randomly assigned to receive for one year
100 ml per day of L. casei DN-114 001 fermented milk
(109 cells/ml), or no probiotics (controls). Clinical
evaluations occurred every 3 months. Faecal flora
composition was assessed every 6 months (30 treated,
15 controls). Outcome measures were allergy-related
signs incidence, infections incidence/severity, IgE-G-A
serological levels (baseline vs 12 months).
Results: Participants (187; 92 treated) were similar
regarding gestational age, breastfeeding, family
smokers, pets, siblings, day-care admission.
Supplemented children exibited less rhinitis episodes
than controls up to T6 [mean-SD: 0,6 (1) vs 0,9 (1,1) at
T3, p= 0,031; 1 (2,6) vs 1,6 (2) at T6, p=0,027]. Asthma
and infections incidence/severity did not differ between
groups. IgE mean % variation increased in controls at
T12 vs baseline (+ 25%; p< 0,01) but not in the treated
group (+8%; p=0,59). IgG and IgA mean % variation
significantly increased in treated group (+6,3% and
+11,5% respectively; p< 0,01) but not in controls (2,4%
and 3,7% respectively; p=0,34 and 0,19). Faecal
analysis showed Lactobacillus casei DN-114 001 in the
gut flora of 78% of supplemented children through the
study period.
Conclusions: Long-term daily consumption of
Lactobacillus Casei DN-114 001 fermented milk may
positively influence on the clinical and immunological
status of allergic childre
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