Nutrition and health-related risk factors could be identified through the
implementation of the nutrition preventive strategies, such as nutrition screening,
for the Chinese elderly population who are at high risk of malnutrition. Efficacious
culturally sensitive nutrition assessment tools and nutrition screening tools hold the
most essential value to assess the...
Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study was to: (1) develop a model for predicting high school students' occupational choice satisfaction by measuring the impact of vocational education programs on career decisions, and (2) to examine the validity and the efficiency of the model by testing it on...
The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop an instrument to measure perceived food autonomy (PFA) among cognitively alert residents in state licensed Assisted Living (AL) facilities, and to investigate the influence of PFA on food satisfaction, while controlling for functional (physical, social, and psychological) status, general health, and...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a re-emerging class of environmental pollutants. The persistent nature of these highly toxic compounds along with their ubiquity in the environment creates an unavoidable route of exposure. The developing fetus and neonate are a particularly susceptible population due to their incomplete complement of xenobiotic metabolizing...
Two epidemiological studies, designed to expand our knowledge of morbidity and
mortality indicators concerning malaria and Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination in the
Hospital Albert Schweitzer health district located in Central Haiti's Artibonite Valley, are
presented. The hospital serves a rural population of 190,000 in its 610 square mile
district. A large...
The virulence of selected isolants of infectious hematopoietic
necrosis virus (IHNV) were differentiated and correlated with
electrophoretic mobilities of virion structural proteins by sodium
dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A type 1
electropherotype of IHNV was more virulent for kokanee salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka) and a type 2 strain more virulent for...
The cholesterol content (mg/100 g wet tissue) of the
longissimus dorsi muscle and the subcutaneous adipose
tissue of "Country Natural Beef" and regularly produced
beef was determined by a spectrophotometric method.
Proximate analysis (moisture, fat and protein contents) of
both types of beef was also determined.
Country Natural Beef (natural...
Chitosan has been proposed as a "natural" coagulating agent to solve wastewater problems. The main hindrance in this commercial chitosan application has been its low cost effectiveness. The hypothesis in our research is that chitosan complexes with natural polyanions is more effective than chitosan alone, particularly in recovering low concentration...