What is being conveyed to health professionals and consumers through web and print sources of nutrition information?

Nutrition misinformation can be harmful. Within dietetics there is an acknowledgement that nutrition information should be consistent, science-based and made relevant to different segments of the population. This paper reports on a study, conducted in Scotland, which involved focus groups and interviews with consumers and health professionals to explore messages relating to a healthy diet and to starchy foods and foods high in fat or sugar in particular. The research also involved a discourse analysis of articles aimed at health professionals and consumers. Evidence based, clearly written web and print articles were not the norm. Many articles contained value-laden messages and inconsistent or unclear advice. Nutrition information was rarely contextualized for consumers to help them incorporate the advice into their daily lives. Consumers and health professionals reported feeling 'bombarded' by messages about diet, which was sometimes confusing. There is considerable scope for improving nutrition messaging in Scotland.Peer reviewe

Selling Solar: Financing Household Solar Energy in the Developing World

Based on value chain analyses of case studies, outlines the issues and challenges for developing a solar energy industry, with a focus on the need for a financing infrastructure that serves purchasers, manufacturers, distributors, and investors

Client-Server, Stable Epistemologies

In recent years, much research has been devoted to the analysis of 128 bit architectures; nevertheless, few have developed the refinement of DHTs. Given the current status of interpos- able methodologies, steganographers famously desire the deployment of the partition table. We prove that I/O automata and neural networks can interact to solve this obstacle

Modelling the inorganic nitrogen behaviour in a small Mediterranean forested catchment, Fuirosos (Catalonia)

The aim of this work was to couple a nitrogen (N) sub-model to already existent hydrological lumped (LU4-N) and semi-distributed (LU4-R-N and SD4-R-N) conceptual models, to improve our understanding of the factors and processes controlling nitrogen cycling and losses in Mediterranean catchments. The N model adopted provides a simplified conceptualization of the soil nitrogen cycle considering mineralization, nitrification, immobilization, denitrification, plant uptake, and ammonium adsorption/desorption. It also includes nitrification and denitrification in the shallow perched aquifer. We included a soil moisture threshold for all the considered soil biological processes. The results suggested that all the nitrogen processes were highly influenced by the rain episodes and that soil microbial processes occurred in pulses stimulated by soil moisture increasing after rain. Our simulation highlighted the riparian zone as a possible source of nitrate, especially after the summer drought period, but it can also act as an important sink of nitrate due to denitrification, in particular during the wettest period of the year. The riparian zone was a key element to simulate the catchment nitrate behaviour. The lumped LU4-N model (which does not include the riparian zone) could not be validated, while both the semi-distributed LU4-R-N and SD4-R-N model (which include the riparian zone) gave satisfactory results for the calibration process and acceptable results for the temporal validation process

Perlindungan Hukum terhadap Saksi dalam Proses Peradilan Pidana Berdasarkan Undang-undang Nomor 13 Tahun 2006 Tentang Perlindungan Saksi dan Korban

Tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana implementasi perlindungan hukum terhadap saksi pasca undang-undang nomor 13 tahun 2006 dan Hambatan-hambatan apa yang dihadapi dalam pelaksanaan perlindungan saksi dalam proses peradilan pidana. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif, maka dapat disimpulkan: 1. Perlindungan hukum terhadap saksi merupakan pemenuhan hak dan pemberianbantuan kepada saksi agar saksi merasa aman dan nyaman dan tidak tertekan dalam ia memberikan keterangan apa yang ia lihat, ia dengar dan ia alami sendirimengenai terjadinya suatu tidak pidana pada setiap proses peradilan pidana, mulaidari proses penyidikan, penuntutan dan proses pemeriksaan disidang pengadilan.Perlindungan mana diberikan oleh Lembaga Perlindungan Saksi dan Korban berdasarkan undang-undang nomor 13 tahun 2006, dengan dibantu oleh semua aparathukum. 2. Hambatan-hambatan yang terjadi dalam perlindungan hukum terhadap saksi dalam proses peradilan pidana setelah diberlakukannya Undang-undang Nomor 13 Tahun 2006 adalah : - Capacity building Lembaga Perlindungan Saksi yang terbentuk sejak tahun 2006 pasca diberlakukannya undang-undang nomor 13 tahun2006 belum memiliki kekuatan yang penuh dalam memberikan perlindungan hukum bagi saksi. - Kerjasama Lembaga Perlindungan saksi dan korban dengan lembaga terkait lainnya terutama pihak kepolisian dan kejaksaan sebagai penyidik belum terjalin dengan sehingga perlindungan saksi belum terlaksana secara komprehensif

En la periferia del imperio: provincias tributarias aztecas en la frontera imperial

This article deals with the arrangement of conquered provinces in the Aztec empire. It has become widely recognized that the empire employed contrasting imperial strategies resulting in tributary and strategic provinces, the latter often tending to insulate the former from potentially dangerous frontiers. Therefore, it is somewhat problematical to find several tributary provinces established on the fringes of the empire and even along hostile borderlands. Explanations for these arrangements are presented from an examination of historical, economic, and military/administrative dimensions of Aztec empire-building