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Environmental determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among adults: a systematic review
The current ecological approach in health behaviour research recognises that health behaviour needs to be understood in a broad environmental
context. This has led to an exponential increase in the number of studies on this topic. It is the aim of this systematic review to summarise the
existing empirical evidence pertaining to environmental influences on fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption. The environment was defined as âall
factors external to the individualâ. Scientific databases and reference lists of selected papers were systematically searched for observational studies
among adults (18â60 years old), published in English between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 2004, with environmental factor(s) as independent factor(s), and fruit intake, vegetable intake or FV intake combined as one outcome measure as dependent factor(s). Findings showed there was
a great diversity in the environmental factors studied, but that the number of replicated studies for each determinant was limited. Most evidence
was found for household income, as people with lower household incomes consistently had a lower FV consumption. Married people had higher
intakes than those who were single, whereas having children showed mixed results. Good local availability (e.g. access to oneâs own vegetable
garden, having low food insecurity) seemed to exert a positive influence on intake. Regarding the development of interventions, improved opportunities for sufficient FV consumption among low-income households are likely to lead to improved intakes. For all other environmental factors,
more replicated studies are required to examine their influence on FV intake
Infinite systems of non-colliding generalized meanders and Riemann-Liouville differintegrals
Yor's generalized meander is a temporally inhomogeneous modification of the
-dimensional Bessel process with , in which the
inhomogeneity is indexed by . We introduce the
non-colliding particle systems of the generalized meanders and prove that they
are the Pfaffian processes, in the sense that any multitime correlation
function is given by a Pfaffian. In the infinite particle limit, we show that
the elements of matrix kernels of the obtained infinite Pfaffian processes are
generally expressed by the Riemann-Liouville differintegrals of functions
comprising the Bessel functions used in the fractional calculus,
where orders of differintegration are determined by . As special
cases of the two parameters , the present infinite systems
include the quaternion determinantal processes studied by Forrester, Nagao and
Honner and by Nagao, which exhibit the temporal transitions between the
universality classes of random matrix theory.Comment: LaTeX, 35 pages, v3: The argument given in Section 3.2 was
simplified. Minor corrections were mad
3D chromatin reprogramming primes human memory T<sub>H</sub>2 cells for rapid recall and pathogenic dysfunction
Memory T cells provide long-lasting defense responses through their ability to rapidly reactivate, but how they efficiently "recall" an inflammatory transcriptional program remains unclear. Here, we show that human CD4+ memory T helper 2 (TH2) cells carry a chromatin landscape synergistically reprogrammed at both one-dimensional (1D) and 3D levels to accommodate recall responses, which is absent in naive T cells. In memory TH2 cells, recall genes were epigenetically primed through the maintenance of transcription-permissive chromatin at distal (super)enhancers organized in long-range 3D chromatin hubs. Precise transcriptional control of key recall genes occurred inside dedicated topologically associating domains ("memory TADs"), in which activation-associated promoter-enhancer interactions were preformed and exploited by AP-1 transcription factors to promote rapid transcriptional induction. Resting memory TH2 cells from patients with asthma showed premature activation of primed recall circuits, linking aberrant transcriptional control of recall responses to chronic inflammation. Together, our results implicate stable multiscale reprogramming of chromatin organization as a key mechanism underlying immunological memory and dysfunction in T cells.</p
Correlation Functions for \beta=1 Ensembles of Matrices of Odd Size
Using the method of Tracy and Widom we rederive the correlation functions for
\beta=1 Hermitian and real asymmetric ensembles of N x N matrices with N odd.Comment: 15 page
A method to calculate correlation functions for random matrices of odd size
The calculation of correlation functions for random matrix
ensembles, which can be carried out using Pfaffians, has the peculiar feature
of requiring a separate calculation depending on the parity of the matrix size
N. This same complication is present in the calculation of the correlations for
the Ginibre Orthogonal Ensemble of real Gaussian matrices. In fact the methods
used to compute the , N odd, correlations break down in the case of N
odd real Ginibre matrices, necessitating a new approach to both problems. The
new approach taken in this work is to deduce the , N odd correlations
as limiting cases of their N even counterparts, when one of the particles is
removed towards infinity. This method is shown to yield the correlations for N
odd real Gaussian matrices.Comment: 20 pages, corrected typo
Occurrence of plant growth-promoting traits in clover-nodulating rhizobia strains isolated from different soils in Rio Grande do Sul state
Isolation and characterization of two plant growth-promoting bacteria from the rhizoplane of a legume (Lupinus albescens) in sandy soil
Modification of the aggregation behaviour of the environmental Ralstonia eutropha-like strain AE815 is reflected by both surface hydrophobicity and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) patterns
Avaliação da biodiversidade de rizóbios simbiontes do feijoeiro (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) em Santa Catarina
Analysis of Relative Motion of Collocated Geostationary Satellites with Geometric Constraints
This paper investigates the design of the relative motion orbits of geostationary satellites in the presence of geometric constraints. A geometric constraint is defined by a sensor's pointing direction and field of view. An analyis was made of the underlying geometry of the relative orbits associated to geometric constraints. This resulted in the derivation of novel relations between relative orbital elements and geometric constraints. The paper presents a set of guidelines that can support the design of relative orbits, that use the relations between the orbital elements and constraints. These guidelines are applied in a characteristic example that includes a nadir-pointing sensor and a north-looking star sensor. The focus in this paper is on collocated satellites in geostationary orbits. The results were derived for near-circular orbits, where the satellites share the same mean argument of longitude. The developed relations can likewise be applied for other types of collocated satellites
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