(C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3360342]“
“Background: Exposure to food commercials is assumed to be related to children’s food preferences and snack food intake patterns. However, surprisingly few studies tested whether watching food commercials actually leads to elevated snack food intake.
Objective: We experimentally tested the side effects of television food commercials on concurrent nonadvertised sweet snack food intake in young children aged 8-12 y.
Design: check details The children (n = 120)
watched a movie interrupted by 2 commercial breaks that contained either food commercials or neutral commercials. While watching, the children could freely eat palatable food. Afterward, they filled out questionnaires and were weighed and measured.
Results: The main finding of our study was the interaction between commercial type and sex of the child. Food intake in boys was higher when they watched the food commercials than when they watched the neutral commercials, whereas food intake in girls was slightly lower when they watched the food commercials than when they watched the neutral commercials.
Conclusion: The results suggest that boys are susceptible
to food cues in commercials. Am J Clin Nutr 2009;89:1328-33.”
“For industrial www.selleckchem.com/products/PHA-739358(Danusertib).html polyester yarns, the study of hydrolytic/thermal degradation is important, because Of the negative influence of these degradations on mechanical properties of polyester yarns. In this research, tensile force at breaking point and elongation at break were used to assess the hydrolytic and thermal degradation of industrial polyester yarns with two draw ratios of 3.5 and 4, which were exposed in water and in oven for 28 days and selleck screening library at different temperatures of T(g), below and above T(g), Totally, the amount of these degradations at temperatures
of 70 to 90 degrees C is not high. The investigation shows that tensile strength at breaking point of industrial polyester yarn will decrease in water and in oven at higher temperature; this degradation is lower for yarn with high draw ratio. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 116: 1929-1932, 2010″
“Background: Smoking has a negative impact on the natural history and on treatment results of many dermatological conditions. However, there are no data demonstrating a similar effect in patients with pilonidal disease.
Patients and Methods: Consecutive patients undergoing surgery for pilonidal disease between 1/2004 and 3/2012 were analyzed retrospectively. Two surgical methods were used: a minimally invasive “”pit-picking”" surgery for smaller primary disease and Karydakis flap for patients presenting with larger primary disease or those who have been operated previously. The aim of the present study was to analyze the impact of smoking on the natural history and on treatment results.
Results: Six hundred and ten patients underwent 660 surgeries: 475 pit-picking operations and 185 Karydakis procedures.