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Study of taste genetics and maternal factors on weight status in preschool children:
No full textGenetic and environmental factors are important determinants of food intake and weight status children. Our laboratory has previously shown that weight status in high SES, Caucasian children is influenced by maternal eating attitudes (dietary restraint & disinhibition), child feeding practices and genetic taste sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) a trait that is controlled, in part, by the bitter taste receptor gene, TAS2R38 (Keller, 2004; Goldstein, 2007). The present study was undertaken to determine if these same or related factors play a role in lunchtime energy intake and adiposity in a cohort of low-income, Hispanic children at risk for overweight. A total of 78 children (51.8 ±0.6 mo; 82± 2.0 BMI%-ile) and their mothers (BMI 27.2± 0.6kg/m2) from a local “Head-Start” preschool participated. PROP status was measured in both mothers and children. Mothers completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire and the Dutch Eating Questionnaire for restraint, external and emotional eating. Children’s food intake at lunch, were recorded during two observations on separate days at the preschool. Results showed that overweight children (>85th BMI%-ile) of mothers who were overweight themselves (p<0.0001), who had high dietary restraint (p<0.01) or who reported using a less restrictive feeding style (p<0.05) consumed more energy at lunch than overweight children whose mothers did no display these characteristics. BMI-z score was highest in PROP non-taster children of mothers with high dietary restraint (2.02) as compared to any of the other groups (0.97-1.31; p<0.02). Hierarchical regression predicted 41.7% of the variance in BMI-z scores. Key steps in this model included: main effects (gender, child taster status and perceived weight of child; 18% variance); child energy intake at lunch (16% variance); maternal/child variables (perceived responsibility, pressure to eat and child food reactivity; 3.4% variance); and the interaction of maternal restraint and child taster status (5.84% variance). This study identified maternal and genetic factors associated with higher energy intakes and greater risk of overweight in Hispanic children. A better understanding of these variables lead to more effective weight management programs to tackle obesity within in this community.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-112)by Poornima Shanka
Seoni - Asian pariah pup that survived canine distemper
No full textSeoni; a female pariah pup was about two months old when afflicted with canine distemper (CD). With progression of disease, she manifested severe pulmonary and enteric symptoms. Later, she started to show nervine symptoms. At this period of time, she received anti-viral agent - FAVIPIRAVIR in order to protect her life and somehow avert euthanasia. The effort succeeded and now after seven months she is leading a usual life with adaptable nervine defects. Her videos are presented here. Firstly, when she was suffering from CD at the age of two months and secondly, when she is a survivor aged nine months on this date. This was an unconventional effort against the traditional line of managing CD
Biomimetic multifunctional materials: a review
No full textInspired from nature, material scientists design and fabricate fascinating multifunctional composites for various applications. The profound insight on hierarchical micro/nanostructures or biological functions behind biomimetic properties and functions and their proper integration in a material for specific applications are crucial in developing biomimetic multifunctional composites. The current review discusses in detail the integration of potentially relevant biomimetic properties and/or functions such as self-cleaning with anti-reflection, self-cleaning with anti-corrosion, self-healing with self-cleaning, shape memory and wettability, super strong and tough, and self-healing with super tough. This review also outlines potential applications of such multifunctional composites in biomedical, oil-gas industry, aviation, marine, wearable electronics, fabrics, sensors, energy harvesting devices, and many more
Internal Phosphorus Load Reduction with Iron Filings
Get PDFMinnesota Pollution Control AgencyNatarajan, Poornima; Gulliver, John S.; Arnold, William A.. (2017). Internal Phosphorus Load Reduction with Iron Filings. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/195677
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Get PDFThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
Get PDFIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
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