The nutritional value of UK commercial ready meals

Background- High obesity rates in the UK are a public health concern with the expense it places on the NHS. £4.7 billion a year is spent on ready meals in the UK, but the impact that consumption has in relation to obesity is not yet conclusive (Euromonitor, 2019). The aim was to assess the nutritional value of UK commercial ready meals in order to know whether they are beneficial to health or increase the risk of disease Methods- Nutritional data was collected for all Indian ready meals from the 4 leading supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, and Morrisons). Meals were classified into meal types which were standard, value, luxury and healthy. The energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, protein, fibre, and salt content were all compared across meal types according to the quantity per 100g and per portion. Macronutrients were also categorised into the front of pack traffic light labelling system. Results- Findings show that ready meals are high in saturated fat and salt, and low in fibre. Luxury ready meals contained the highest amount of saturated fat (6.69g/portion) and value ready meals had high quantities (5.6g/portion). Value ready meals were the cheapest (£1.00/portion) but contained the highest amount of salt (1.86g/portion). Fibre content ranged between 4.9g-6.49g, with healthy ready meals containing the lowest amount. Conclusion- Overall, ready meals could be harmful to health if they are consumed regularly due to their high saturated fat and salt content, but occasional consumption will not increase the risk of disease. The elderly who regularly consume ready meals could be consuming high levels of saturated fat and salt alongside a low intake of fibre. Ready meals categorised as healthy are lower in fat, saturated fat and salt showing that reformulation is possible which could impact ready meals available in supermarkets in the future

Data, Data Everywhere: But Not a Drop to Analyze

Heena Santry, M.D., M.S. will discuss the challenges she faced as a researcher in converting two decades worth of trauma registry data into usable form for analysis. Dr. Santry is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Quantitative Health Sciences where she also serves as Director of Trauma Outcomes Research and Quality Assessment. She is also a UMass Clinical Research Scholar funded through the CTSA

The development of Eugene O'Neill

This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universityhttps://archive.org/details/thedevelopmentof00san

Art After Control: Artists’ Moving Image and Aesthetic Resistance in Control Society

Gilles Deleuze’s concept of control society is often deployed as a shorthand for the social mutation wrought by the proliferation of digital technology at the end of the twentieth century, marking a new historical period characterised by widespread institutional crisis as a result of rapid technological change. Control names a post-cybernetic logic that underpins the invention of a new space-time, and as a result, comes into conflict with the creative act. This thesis is structured the opposition Deleuze draws between art and control, and asks how and how far art resists control. In setting up an antimony between art and a ‘mutated’ capitalist society at a moment of intensive technologisation, the contours of an aesthetic theory that Deleuze draws in his writing on control intersect with the Aesthetic Theory of Theodor Adorno, which similarly theorised art’s resistance to social domination under capitalism. This thesis advances a reading of Adorno via Deleuze, and vice versa, in order to account for the relation of art to control society and to explore the possibility of aesthetic resistance to control. Employing an anecdotal methodology, and taking artists’ moving image as a form particular to the conditions of control society, each chapter closely analyses one moving image artwork in terms of its potential to resist control. The first explores the transformation of artistic labour and its relation to general social technique in the work of Tabor Robak; the second explores the technologization of memory in opposition to ‘vogue’ and cultural memory in the work of Jacolby Satterwhite; the final chapter considers the act of ‘worlding’ as an act of resistance to control in the work of Ian Cheng, also attending to the possibilities of AI art in control society

Does Aeromedical Transport Increase Anything Else Besides The Cost Of Care For Trauma Patients?

INTRODUCTION: Unlike many other interventions for trauma, the utilization of transport services are directly impacted by environmental factors such as geography and weather. The previous literature on aeromedical transport for trauma patients has not accounted for the variability in patient selection based on these factors. Furthermore, travel distances for aeromedical transport are rarely accounted for when trying to address this controversial topic. We undertook this study to determine whether helicopter transport imparted a survival benefit. METHODS: Our institution’s trauma registry was queried from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2010 for adult patients (≥15yrs of age) transported directly from the scene of injury to our level one trauma center in central New England. Cohorts were designated ‘AIR’ if transported by helicopter and ‘GROUND’ if by ground EMS vehicles. A multivariable logistic regression model for mortality was constructed. In order to account for the travel time a patient would have been subject to if transported by ground, we included a co-variate for network bands in our model. Network bands were generated by 5-min increments, using Maptitude geographic information systems software that measure predicted time of travel based on available roadways and traffic patterns, as shown in figure 1. RESULTS: There were 3,615 patients who met inclusion criteria on these days. 1,281 (35%) were assigned to the AIR cohort and 2,334 (65%) were assigned to the GROUND cohort. Multivariable analyses of mortality showed that neither mode of transport nor the distance traveled were independent predictors of mortality. However, intubation status, presence of abnormal systolic blood pressure at the time of presentation to the trauma center, age, ISS, AIS and RTS were all independent predictors of mortality. CONCLUSION: There was no survival benefit for patients transported by helicopter in this study

2010 K12 Awardees: Overview of Research Projects

Two UMCCTS Clinical Research Scholars (K awardees) describe their research projects and professional growth as junior faculty: - Sarah Cutrona on Electronic Transmission of Health Information across Networks - Heena Santry on Career Development for an Academic Acute Care Surgeon and Acute Care Surgery Practice Patterns: A Tale of Two Complexitie

Studi Tekno-Ekonomi Alat Penyangrai Biji-Bijian dengan Sumber Penggerak Motor Listrik

Penyangraian dilakukan untuk memperpanjang umur simpan dan juga sebagai pengolahan lanjutan produk pertanian agar selanjutnya siap untuk dikonsumsi. Tujuan dari alat penyangraian biji-bijian ini adalah untuk mempermudah proses pengeringan biji-bijian seperti kacang tanah dan kedelai serta mempersingkat waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk proses pengeringan kacang tanah dan melakukan pengujian alat. Urutan proses penelitian ini meliputi evaluasi kinerja alat yaitu pengamatan frekuensi putar, pengamatan suhu, waktu penyangraian dan tingkat kebisingan alat, selanjutnya dilakukan analisis ekonomi dari alat ini. Komoditi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kacang tanah dan kedelai. Hasil akhir yang dicapai adalah kadar air 3,5% (SNI) untuk kacang tanah dan 2% (USDA) untuk kedelai. Dari penelitian ini didapatkan nilai rata-rata kapasitas kerja alat 4,68 ± 0,08% untuk kacang tanah dan 4,74 ± 0,15% untuk kedelai, waktu penyangraian kacang tanah 80 menit dan kedelai 5 jam, rendemen kacang tanah 85,39 ± 1,43% dan kedelai 82,52 ± 2,55, suhu penyangraian berkisar dari 26˚C sampai 173˚C, daya kebutuhan listrik kacang tanah 22,74 ± 1,01% dan kedelai 21,99 ± 0,32, berdasarkan analisis ekonomi alat penyangrai ini mengalami titik impas pada nilai 297,78 kg/tahun untuk kacang tanah dan 578,9 kg/jam untuk kedelai, dan berdasarkan analisis ekonomi secara finansial alat ini layak untuk digunakan karena memiliki nilai B/C Ratio >1 dan NPV > 0. Kata kunci – studi tekno-ekonomi, alat penyangrai , kacang tanah, kedela