A Study of Restaurateurs\u27 Attitudes and Practices in Relation to Obesity

The dramatic increase in the rate of obesity in the United States is raising new public health concerns. Each year, obesity-related problems cause at least 300,000 deaths and cost around 100 billion dollars. Take a walk down the street, go to a shopping center or sport event, or pick up a newspaper or magazine and the severity of the obesity problem in the United States is becoming a critical problem to solve. About 65% of the U.S. adult population is overweight (35%) or obese (30%), which has doubled in only two decades. Obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, arthritis, respiratory problems, cancer, and sleep apnea have become a major concern in our health care crisis. Poor diet and physical inactivity leading to excess body weight was identified as the second leading cause of death in the United States. While Americans are consuming more food outside the home, it may seem easy to assume a relationship between the increases in the success of the restaurant industry and national obesity rates. The growth in food away from home has created concern about its possible effect on dietary quality. Because so much food is eaten outside the home, restaurants do have a significant impact on the food consumption of the United States and play a considerable role in the shaping of American diets

Automation design for monorail-based system processes

Currently, conventional methods of decline development put enormous cost pressure on the profitability of mining operations. This is the case with narrow vein ore bodies where current methods and mine design of decline development may be too expensive to support economic extraction of the ore. According to studies, the time it takes to drill, clean and blast an end in conventional decline development can be up to 224 minutes. This is because once an end is blasted, cleaning should first be completed before drilling can commence, resulting in low advance rates per shift. Improvements in advance rates during decline development can be achieved by application of the Electric Monorail Transport System (EMTS) based drilling system. The system consists of the drilling and loading components that use monorail technology to drill and clean the face during decline development. The two systems work simultaneously at the face in such a way that as the top part of the face is being drilled the pneumatic loading system cleans the face. However, to improve the efficiency of the two systems, critical processes performed by the two systems during mining operations must be automated. Automation increases safety and productivity, reduces operator fatigue and also reduces the labour costs of the system. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to describe automation designs of the two processes performed by the monorail drilling and loading systems during operations. During automation design, critical processes performed by the two systems and control requirements necessary to allow the two systems execute such processes automatically have also been identified

Unmanned Secured Delivery System

Now a days customers are mostly prefer online shopping and ordering, that brought the need for the delivery man. The rapid increase in usage of online ordering has increased the requirement of manpower to deliver in multiple folds. Drone based technology is being used to meet this requirement. The present automated drone delivery system has a few drawbacks like- The drone just drops the ordered package to the location without the concern of whether the customer is available there or not. There is no facility to change the location after ordering the package. This work focuses on the unmanned secure delivery system which will address the above mentioned drawbacks. By interfacing GPS and GSM module to the drone, the intelligence of changing the location of delivery can be inherited by the user. Secondly, once the drone reaches the location if the users do not input their pass code in the drone via a keypad provided, the drone will not release the package. In this condition the drone will send an SMS to the user about the failure to deliver the package and will fly back to the vendor’s control station

Medicinal Plants the Key Bio-Adsorbents for Anionic Surfactant (SDS) From Waste Water

The pollutant binding capacity of seeds of Embelia ribes, Celastrus paniculatus was investigated in a batch system under varying conditions. The results indicate that sorption equilibrium was established in about 60 minutes. The anionic surfactant sorption is highly dependent on pH and maximum removal was observed at pH 2 - 6. It was also observed that sorption of surfactant decreases with increase in temperature. The experimental results were analyzed in terms of Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. The Freundlich isotherm model fitted well to data with 0.94 regression co-efficient (R2). Evaluation of experimental data in terms of biosorption kinetics showed that the biosorption of surfactant on both the biomass followed pseudo-first order kinetics. The results showed that biosorbent are an attractive low cost alternative for the treatment of wastewaters containing lower concentrations of anionic surfactant

Natural Adsorbent: Removal of Anionic surfactant from grey water and its comparison with chemical adsorbent

The study aims at comparing removal method of Anionic Surfactant from grey water using natural and chemical adsorbent. The study focused on the comparison of various parameters of the method. The comparison was effectively done by performing batch adsorption experiment in grey water. The chemical adsorbent selected was alum and lime whereas the natural bioadsorbent was powder of karanj seed and tulsi leaves. The optimum adsorbent dose, equilibrium time, pH condition and contact time was determined. In the Batch study a series of 10 mL samples of AS bearing waste water (100 ?g mL-1) were shaken for 1h with adsorbents at varying doses. Isotherm data at 270C were fitted to Freundlich model better than to Langmuir model. The R2 value for CA-1, CA-2, NA-1 and NA-2 was calculated and compared. The Qmax. for CA-1 & CA-2 ,BA-1 & BA-2 were  found to be 0.6, 0.9, 34.48 and 64.66 mg/g. Maximum adsorbent capacities (Qmax.) was obtained by the natural adsorbent than chemical adsorbent. The natural adsorbents showed very good correlation

AUGMENTATIVE EFFECT OF PROSTAGLANDIN E1 ON PENTOBARBITAL HYPNOSIS MEDIATED BY 5-HT IN CHICKS

Prostaglandins (PG) are present in different tissues specially in brain tissues endowed with different central nervous system activities. Similarly, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) a biogenic amine with its presence in different central and peripheral tissues as neurotransmitter plays an important role in the regulation of physiological functions specially hypnosis, convulsions, analgesia in rats, mice, cats and chicks etc. Pentobarbitone (PB) induced sleep appear to be a serotonergic modulator activity in different animals. PGE1 potentiates the pentobarbitone hypnosis also mediated through serotonin. In the present study, PGE1 induced sleeping time in chicks was evaluated. Drugs affecting 5-HT synthesis, metabolism and receptor activity modulate the potentiating response, while adrenergic receptor antagonists did not showed any response. This study suggest that PGE1 potentiate PB induced sleep through serotonergic signaling pathway as PGE1 increased 5-HT synthesis rate in chick brain

Tidally Compressed Gas in Centers of Early Type and Ultraluminous Galaxies

In this paper we propose that the compressive tidal field in the centers of flat-core early type galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies compresses molecular clouds producing dense gas obseved in the centers of these galaxies. The effect of galactic tidal fields is usually considered disruptive in the literature. However, for some galaxies, the mass profile flattens towards the center and the resulting galactic tidal field is not disruptive but instead it is compressive within the flat-core region. We have used the virial theorem to determine the minimum density of a molecular cloud to be stable and gravitationally bound within the tidally compressive region of a galaxy. We have applied the mechanism to determine the mean molecular cloud densities in the centers of a sample of flat-core, early-type galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies.Comment: 18 latex pages and uses aaspp4.sty, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journa

To freeze or not to: Quantum correlations under local decoherence

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for freezing of quantum correlations as measured by quantum discord and quantum work deficit in the case of bipartite as well as multipartite states subjected to local noisy channels. We recognize that inhomogeneity of the magnetizations of the shared quantum states plays an important role in the freezing phenomena. We show that the frozen value of the quantum correlation and the time interval for freezing follow a complementarity relation. For states which do not exhibit "exact" freezing, but can be frozen "effectively", by having a very slow decay rate with suitable tuning of the state parameters, we introduce an index -- the freezing index -- to quantify the goodness of freezing. We find that the freezing index can be used to detect quantum phase transitions and discuss the corresponding scaling behavior.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, close to published version, title changed by Phys. Rev. A. to 'Freezing of quantum correlations under local decoherence