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Combining Speed and Accuracy in Cognitive Psychology: Is the Inverse Efficiency Score (IES) a Better Dependent Variable than the Mean Reaction Time (RT) and the Percentage Of Errors (PE)?

Raymond Bruyer, Marc Brysbaert

Psychologica Belgica

Experiments in cognitive psychology usually return two dependent variables: the percentage of errors and the reaction time of the correct responses. Townsend and Ashby (1978, 1983) proposed the...

Copper and Iron Disorders of the Brain

Erik Madsen, Jonathan D. Gitlin

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Copper and iron are transition elements essential for life. These metals are required to maintain the brain's biochemistry such that deficiency or excess of either copper or iron results in central...

Remembrance of Repasts

David E. Sutton

<JATS1:p>Proust’s famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing commodification and globalization of food...

Multiple independent origins of Shigella clones of<i>Escherichia coli</i>and convergent evolution of many of their characteristics

Gulietta M. Pupo, Ruiting Lan, Peter R. Reeves

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The evolutionary relationships of 46 Shigella strains representing each of the serotypes belonging to the four traditional Shigella species (subgroups), Dysenteriae, Flexneri, Boydii, and Sonnei,...

A Salmonella protein antagonizes Rac-1 and Cdc42 to mediate host-cell recovery after bacterial invasion

Yixin Fu, Jorge E. Galán

Nature

Effect of a Diet Enriched with Monounsaturated or Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Levels of Low-Density and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Healthy Women and Men

Ronald P. Mensink, Mira Katan

New England Journal of Medicine

Polyunsaturated fatty acids are thought to lower the serum cholesterol level more effectively than monounsaturated fatty acids. It is unclear whether the difference--if any--is due to a lowering of...

Early versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Children

Tom Fivez, Dorian Kerklaan, Dieter Mesotten +13

New England Journal of Medicine

In critically ill children, withholding parenteral nutrition for 1 week in the ICU was clinically superior to providing early parenteral nutrition. (Funded by the Flemish Agency for Innovation...

T2R38 taste receptor polymorphisms underlie susceptibility to upper respiratory infection

Robert J. Lee, Guoxiang Xiong, Jennifer M. Kofonow +14

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Innate and adaptive defense mechanisms protect the respiratory system from attack by microbes. Here, we present evidence that the bitter taste receptor T2R38 regulates the mucosal innate defense of...

Avian pathogenic, uropathogenic, and newborn meningitis-causing Escherichia coli: How closely related are they?

Christa Ewers, G LI, Hendrik Wilking +7

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Effect of ambience on food intake and food choice

Nanette Stroebele, John M. de Castro

Nutrition

Iliac vein compression in an asymptomatic patient population

Melina R. Kibbe, Michael Ujiki, Alan Lee Goodwin +3

Journal of Vascular Surgery

The impact of perceptual interactions on perceived flavor

Jeannine Delwiche

Food Quality and Preference

Drinking Water and Health,

National Research Council

National Academies Press eBooks

Effect of Temperature on the Moisture Sorption Isotherms and Water Activity Shift of Two Dehydrated Foods

Theodore P. Labuza, Amar Kaanane, J. Y. CHEN

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT The water activity (a w ) of eight salt solutions was determined at three temperatures (25, 30, 45°C) using a pressure transducer‐vapor pressure manometer. The a w s of the salts showed a...

The Effects of Mere Exposure on Liking for Edible Substances

Patricia Pliner

Appetite

Function of Lipophilic Acids as Antimicrobial Food Additives

Ernst Freese, C.W. Sheu, E. M. GALLIERS

Nature

New Light on the Correlation Coefficient and its Transforms

Harold Hotelling

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)

Handbook of Enology

Pascal Ribéreau‐Gayon, Denis Dubourdieu, Bernard Donèche +3

THE CHEMISTRY OF WINE. Organic Acids in Wine. Alcohols and Other Volatile Compounds. Carbohydrates. Dry Extract and Minerals. Nitrogen Compounds. Phenolic Compounds. Varietal Aroma. STABILIZATION AND...

Beyond the Throwaway Society: Ordinary Domestic Practice and a Sociological Approach to Household Food Waste

David M. Evans

Sociology

This article offers a sociological analysis of household food waste and its starting point is a critique of perspectives in which volumes of waste generation are used to infer the presence of a...

Food Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents

Alan Imeson

Preface. Acknowledgements. Contributors. 1 Introduction. Dennis Seisun. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Functional properties. 1.3 Regulatory environment. 1.4 Commercial environment. 1.5 Future developments. 2...

Zinc: role in immunity, oxidative stress and chronic inflammation

Ananda S. Prasad

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care

Zinc supplementation has been successfully used as a therapeutic and preventive agent for many conditions. Zinc functions as an intracellular signal molecule for immune cells.

A universal and rapid protocol for protein extraction from recalcitrant plant tissues for proteomic analysis

Wei Wang, Rita Vignani, Monica Scali +1

Electrophoresis

A simple and universally applicable protocol for extracting high-quality proteins from recalcitrant plant tissues is described. We have used the protocol with no modification, for a wide range of...

An Iron-responsive Element Type II in the 5′-Untranslated Region of the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein Transcript

Jack T. Rogers, Jeffrey Randall, Catherine M. Cahill +13

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Iron-responsive elements (IREs) are the RNA stem loops that control cellular iron homeostasis by regulating ferritin translation and transferrin receptor mRNA stability. We mapped a novel...

Biological effects of a nano red elemental selenium

Jinsong Zhang, Xue‐Yun Gao, Lide Zhang +1

BioFactors

A novel selenium form, nano red elemental selenium (Nano-Se) was prepared by adding bovine serum albumin to the redox system of selenite and glutathione. Nano-Se has a 7-fold lower acute toxicity...

Vitamin C Intake and Mortality among a Sample of the United States Population

James E. Enstrom, Linda E.A. Kanim, Morton A. Klein

Epidemiology

We examined the relation between vitamin C intake and mortality in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) Epidemiologic Follow-up Study cohort. This cohort is based on...

Metal ions and bacteria

R. N. F. Thorneley

Trends in biotechnology

<i>Escherichia vulneris</i> : a New Species of <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> Associated with Human Wounds

D J Brenner, Alma C. McWhorter, Jean K. Leete Knutson +1

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The name Escherichia vulneris sp. nov. (formerly called Alma group 1 and Enteric group 1 by the Centers for Disease Control and API group 2 by Analytab Products, Inc.) is proposed for a group of...

Metabolic Control and Disease.

Bondy, Philip K.

Annals of Internal Medicine

Anthocyanin food colorant and its application in pH-responsive color change indicator films

Swarup Roy, Jong‐Whan Rhim

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Recently, interest in smart packaging, which can show the color change of the packaging film according to the state of the food and evaluate the quality or freshness of the packaged food in...

The concept of smart tourism in the context of tourism information services

Yunpeng Li, Clark Hu, Chao Huang +1

Tourism Management

Dietary Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Are Protective Against Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

Leah G. Gillingham, Sydney Harris‐Janz, Peter J.H. Jones

Lipids

Over 50 years of research has sought to define the role dietary fat plays in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Although optimal dietary fat quantity has been keenly pursued over past decades,...

Apixaban versus Enoxaparin for Thromboprophylaxis in Medically Ill Patients

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Alain Leizorovicz, Ajay K. Kakkar +4

New England Journal of Medicine

In medically ill patients, an extended course of thromboprophylaxis with apixaban was not superior to a shorter course with enoxaparin. Apixaban was associated with significantly more major bleeding...

Prognostic value of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with haemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism: a systematic review

Olivier Sanchez, Ludovic Trinquart, Isabelle Colombet +4

European Heart Journal

RV dysfunction assessed by CT, echocardiography, or by cardiac biomarkers are all associated with an increased risk of mortality in patients with haemodynamically stable PE. These findings should be...

Iron and copper metabolism

Miguel Arredondo, Marco T. Núñez

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Host-induced epidemic spread of the cholera bacterium

D. Scott Merrell, Susan M. Butler, Firdausi Qadri +6

Nature

Individual fatty acid effects on plasma lipids and lipoproteins: human studies

PM Kris-Etherton, Sung‐Huan Yu

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Ion efflux systems involved in bacterial metal resistances

Dietrich H. Nies, Simón Silver

Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Studying metal ion resistance gives us important insights into environmental processes and provides an understanding of basic living processes. This review concentrates on bacterial efflux systems...

The Emergence of Grade A Eggs as a Major Source of Salmonella enteritidis Infections

Michael E. St. Louis

JAMA

From 1976 to 1986, reported Salmonella enteritidis infections increased more than sixfold in the northeastern United States. From January 1985 to May 1987, sixty-five foodborne outbreaks of S...

Gas-liquid chromatographic separation of aldose enantiomers as trimethylsilyl ethers of methyl 2-(polyhydroxyalkyl)-thiazolidine-4(R)-carboxylates.

Shuuji Hara, Hikaru Okabe, Kunihide Mihashi

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

Pairs of enantiomers of nine aldoses were separated by gas-liquid chromatography on an OV-17 capillary column as the trimethylsilyl ethers of methyl 2- (polyhydroxyalkyl) -thiazolidine-4 (R)...

PLATELET-MEMBRANE FATTY ACIDS, PLATELET AGGREGATION, AND THROMBOXANE FORMATION DURING A MACKEREL DIET

Wolfgang Siess, B. Scherer, B. Böhlig +3

The Lancet

Significance of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human health

Rafael Zárate, Nabil el Jaber-Vazdekis, Noemı́ Tejera +2

Clinical and Translational Medicine

In the last decades, the development of new technologies applied to lipidomics has revitalized the analysis of lipid profile alterations and the understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms...

Treating inflammation and infection in the 21st century: new hints from decoding resolution mediators and mechanisms

Charles N. Serhan

The FASEB Journal

Practitioners of ancient societies from the time of Hippocrates and earlier recognized and treated the signs of inflammation, heat, redness, swelling, and pain with agents that block or inhibit...

Dietary Sources of Sodium in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Women and Men Aged 40 to 59 Years: The INTERMAP Study

Cheryl A.M. Anderson, Lawrence J. Appel, Nagako Okuda +11

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

A Brief Overview of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Its Plasmid O157

Ji Youn Lim, JangWon Yoon, Carolyn J. Hovde

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a major foodborne pathogen causing severe disease in humans worldwide. Healthy cattle are a reservoir of E. coli O157:H7, and bovine food products and...