Hunger is among the greatest contemporary social problems in the United States. An incredible 48 million people, or 14% of households, experienced food insecurity during 2014. At the same time, public responses to food insecurity, such as the Emergency Food Assistance Program, have increasingly relied on the “emergency food network,”...
BACKGROUND: Goals for reduction of adolescent American health risks include reduction of
prevalence of early initiation of sexual activity among teens in the United States to <15% for
fifteen year olds and <40% for seventeen year olds. Such a prevalence reduction would
concomitantly reduce the risks for both unwanted teen...
Thermal oxidation of methyl oleate was studied over a range of temperatures from 50 C to 150 C for periods of time up to 30 min. Degradation was quantitatively followed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC) and liquid scintillation counting of the products of methyl oleate-U-14C heated under a stream of...