330 research outputs found
Assessing food appeal and desire to eat: the effects of portion size & energy density
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Visual presentation of food provides considerable information such as its potential for palatability and availability, both of which can impact eating behavior.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We investigated the subjective ratings for food appeal and desire to eat when exposed to food pictures in a fed sample (n = 129) using the computer paradigm ImageRate. Food appeal and desire to eat were analyzed for the effects of food group, portion size and energy density of the foods presented as well as by participant characteristics.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Food appeal ratings were significantly higher than those for desire to eat (57.9 ± 11.6 v. 44.7 ± 18.0; <it>p </it>< 0.05). Body mass index was positively correlated to desire to eat (<it>r </it>= 0.20; <it>p </it>< 0.05), but not food appeal. Food category analyses revealed that fruit was the highest rated food category for both appeal and desire, followed by discretionary foods. Additionally, overweight individuals reported higher ratings of desire to eat large portions of food compared to smaller portions (<it>p </it>< 0.001), although these effects were relatively small. Energy density of the foods was inversely correlated with ratings for both appeal and desire (<it>r</it>'s = - 0.27; <it>p</it>'s < 0.01).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Results support the hypothesis that individuals differentiate between food appeal and desire to eat foods when assessing these ratings using the same type of metric. Additionally, relations among food appeal and desire to eat ratings and body mass show overweight individuals could be more responsive to visual foods cues in a manner that contributes to obesity.</p
Scaling of viscous dynamics in simple liquids:theory, simulation and experiment
Supercooled liquids are characterized by relaxation times that increase
dramatically by cooling or compression. Many liquids have been shown to obey
power-law density scaling, according to which the relaxation time is a function
of density to some power over temperature. We show that power-law density
scaling breaks down for larger density variations than usually studied. This is
demonstrated by simulations of the Kob-Andersen binary Lennard-Jones mixture
and two molecular models, as well as by experimental results for two van der
Waals liquids. A more general form of density scaling is derived, which is
consistent with results for all the systems studied. An analytical expression
for the scaling function for liquids of particles interacting via generalized
Lennard-Jones potentials is derived and shown to agree very well with
simulations. This effectively reduces the problem of understanding the viscous
slowing down from being a quest for a function of two variables to a search for
a single-variable function.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Plants as De-Worming Agents of Livestock in the Nordic Countries: Historical Perspective, Popular Beliefs and Prospects for the Future
Preparations derived from plants were the original therapeutic interventions used by man to control diseases (including parasites), both within humans and livestock. Development of herbal products depended upon local botanical flora with the result that different remedies tended to develop in different parts of the world. Nevertheless, in some instances, the same or related plants were used over wide geographic regions, which also was the result of communication and/or the importation of plant material of high repute. Thus, the Nordic countries have an ancient, rich and diverse history of plant derived anthelmintic medications for human and animal use. Although some of the more commonly used herbal de-wormers were derived from imported plants, or their products, many are from endemic plants or those that thrive in the Scandinavian environment. With the advent of the modern chemotherapeutic era, and the discovery, development and marketing of a seemingly unlimited variety of highly efficacious, safe synthetic chemicals with very wide spectra of activities, herbal remedies virtually disappeared from the consciousness – at least in the Western world. This attitude is now rapidly changing. There is a widespread resurgence in natural product medication, driven by major threats posed by multi-resistant pest, or disease, organisms and the diminishing public perceptions that synthetic chemicals are the panacea to health and disease control. This review attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the depth of historical Nordic information available on herbal de-wormers, with emphasis on livestock and to provide some insights on potentially rewarding areas of "re-discovery" and scientific evaluation in this field
Communication: The Rosenfeld-Tarazona expression for liquids’ specific heat:A numerical investigation of eighteen systems
We investigate the accuracy of the expression of Rosenfeld and Tarazona (RT)
for the excess isochoric heat capacity, C_V^{ex} \propto T^{-2/5}, for eighteen
model liquids. Previous investigations have reported no unifying features of
breakdown for the RT expression. Here liquids with different stoichiometric
composition, molecular topology, chemical interactions, degree of undercooling,
and environment are investigated. We find that the RT expression is a better
approximation for liquids with strong correlations between equilibrium
fluctuations of virial and potential energy, i.e., Roskilde simple liquids
[Ingebrigtsen et al., Phys. Rev. X 2, 011011 (2012)]. This observation holds
even for molecular liquids under severe nanoscale confinement, the physics of
which is completely different from the original RT bulk hard-sphere fluid
arguments. The density dependence of the specific heat is predicted from the
isomorph theory for Roskilde simple liquids, which in combination with the RT
expression provides a complete description of the specific heat's density and
temperature dependence.Comment: 6 page
Excess-entropy scaling in supercooled binary mixtures
Supercooled liquids near the glass transition show remarkable non-Arrhenius transport phenomena, whose origin is yet to be clarified. Here, the authors use GPU molecular dynamics simulations for various binary mixtures in the supercooled regime to show the validity of a quasiuniversal excess-entropy scaling relation for viscosity and diffusion
Invariants in the Yukawa system’s thermodynamic phase diagram
This paper shows that several known properties of the Yukawa system can be
derived from the isomorph theory, which applies to any system that has strong
correlations between its virial and potential-energy equilibrium fluctuations.
Such "Roskilde-simple" systems have a simplified thermodynamic phase diagram
deriving from the fact that they have curves (isomorphs) along which structure
and dynamics in reduced units are invariant to a good approximation. We show
that the Yukawa system has strong virial potential-energy correlations and
identify its isomorphs by two different methods. One method, the so-called
direct isomorph check, identifies isomorphs numerically from jumps of
relatively small density changes (here 10%). The second method identifies
isomorphs analytically from the pair potential. The curves obtained by the two
methods are close to each other; these curves are confirmed to be isomorphs by
demonstrating the invariance of the radial distribution function, the static
structure factor, the mean-square displacement as a function of time, and the
incoherent intermediate scattering function. Since the melting line is
predicted to be an isomorph, the theory provides a derivation of a known
approximate analytical expression for this line in the temperature-density
phase diagram. The paper's results give the first demonstration that the
isomorph theory can be applied to systems like dense colloidal suspensions and
strongly coupled dusty plasmas.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
Nonlinear acousto-electric transport in a two-dimensional electron system
We study both theoretically and experimentally the nonlinear interaction
between an intense surface acoustic wave and a two-dimensional electron plasma
in semiconductor-piezocrystal hybrid structures. The experiments on hybrid
systems exhibit strongly nonlinear acousto-electric effects. The plasma turns
into moving electron stripes, the acousto-electric current reaches its maximum,
and the sound absorption strongly decreases. To describe the nonlinear
phenomena, we develop a coupled-amplitude method for a two-dimensional system
in the strongly nonlinear regime of interaction. At low electron densities the
absorption coefficient decreases with increasing sound intensity, whereas at
high electron density the absorption coefficient is not a monotonous function
of the sound intensity. High-harmonic generation coefficients as a function of
the sound intensity have a nontrivial behavior. Theory and experiment are found
to be in a good agreement.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figure
Do the repulsive and attractive pair forces play separate roles for the physics of liquids?
Abstract According to standard liquid-state theory repulsive and attractive pair forces play distinct roles for the physics of liquids. This paradigm is put into perspective here by demonstrating a continuous series of pair potentials that have virtually the same structure and dynamics, although only some of them have attractive forces of significance. Our findings reflect the fact that the motion of a given particle is determined by the total force on it, whereas the quantity usually discussed in liquid-state theory is the individual pair force
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