DESIGN OF THE FOCUS ON RESTAURANT ENGAGEMENT TO STRENGTHEN HEALTH (FRESH) STUDY: LEVERAGING SYSTEMS SCIENCE TO WORK WITH INDEPENDENTLY-OWNED RESTAURANTS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AND PROMOTION OF HEALTHFUL FOODS

BackgroundHigh dietary quality can protect against diet-related chronic diseases.In the United States, racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes consistently exhibit lower dietary quality.Independently-owned restaurants are a common prepared food source in minority low-income communities, but there are significant knowledge gaps on

Abstract Background Healthcare systems are operating under substantial pressures, and often simply cannot provide the standard of care they aspire to within the available resources.Organisations, managers, and individual clinicians make constant adaptations in response to these pressures, which are typically improvised, highly variable and not coor

The main contribution of this paper is introducing a method to distinguish between different landmarks of the retina: bifurcations and crossings.The methodology may help in differentiating between arteries and veins and is useful in identifying diseases and other special pathologies, too.The method does not need any special skills, thus it can be a

ABSTRACT Members of the clonally variant Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) family mediate adhesion of infected erythrocytes (IEs) to vascular receptors.PfEMP1 expression is normally confined to nanoscale knob protrusions on the IE surface membrane.To investigate the relationship between the densities of these u11-200ps I