The educational outcomes of the descendants of migrants are important indicators of migrants' incorporation into host societies and an indicator of intergenerational social im/mobility. This paper examines this relationship using data from a survey that follows a cohort of young adults, born between 1988 and 1997, who grew up in Switzerland. It looks at the relationship between the educational output of respondents and their parental migratory background, with the theoretical consideration that the family's social capital is a starting point in the descendants' trajectories.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe are witnessing an acceleration of the global drive to converge consumption and production patterns towards a more circular and sustainable approach to the food system. To address the challenge of reconnecting agriculture, environment, food and health, collections of large datasets must be exploited. However, building high-capacity data-sharing networks means unlocking the information silos that are caused by a multiplicity of local data dictionaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Modic type 1 disc disease (MD1) appears to be related to severe Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP). Functional Restoration Programmes (FRP) recommended in CLBP may not be suitable for patients with MD1. The main objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of a FRP, on the perceived incapacity and the pain intensity, in patients with non-specific CLBP according to the presence of MD1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFaba bean (Vicia faba L. minor) has many interests but is characterised by off-notes (negative odours/aromas) due to volatile compounds that are promoted during seed processing. Little is known about the volatile compounds of faba bean and their contribution to its odour.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the context of data management and processing, food science needs tools to organize the results of diverse studies to make the data reusable. In sensory analysis, there are no classification or wheel of textural attributes that can be used to interpret the results of sensory studies. Research from the literature and databases was used to elaborate a list of attributes related to texture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince 1975, the Weurman Flavour Research Symposium has been held every three years in different European countries, and has been finally established as an international event that offers unique opportunities for distinguished scientists from academia and industry, from different disciplines, and from all over the world, to discuss trends and new paradigms in the field of flavour research [...
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe worldwide demand for pulse-based products is increasing in the face of climate change, but their acceptability is limited due to the presence of off-flavours. Off-notes contribute to negative perceptions of pulses (beany notes). Volatile compounds belong to a large variety of chemical classes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: While targeted temperature management (TTM) has been recommended in patients with shockable cardiac arrest (CA) and suggested in patients with non-shockable rhythms, few data exist regarding the impact of the rewarming rate on systemic inflammation. We compared serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL6) measured with two rewarming rates after TTM at 33 °C in patients with shockable out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
Methods: ISOCRATE was a single-center randomized controlled trial comparing rewarming at 0.
Purpose: In current guidelines, neurological prognostication after cardiopulmonary resuscitation is based on a multimodal approach bundled in algorithms. Biomarkers are of particular interest because they are unaffected by interpretation bias. We assessed the predictive value of serum neurofilament light chains (NF-L) in patients with a shockable rhythm who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and evaluated the predictive value of a modified algorithm where NF-L dosage is included.
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December 2021
Background: Considering the increase in MDR Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), the choice of empirical antibiotic therapy is challenging. In parallel, use of broad-spectrum antibiotics should be avoided to decrease antibiotic selection pressure. Accordingly, clinicians need rapid diagnostic tools to narrow antibiotic therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExposure to social norms is a popular way to foster healthy food behavior. Testing the robustness of this effect, we report a field study assessing the impact of a vegetable-related descriptive norm message on vegetables purchase. The first contribution was to rely on a cluster randomized crossover design: Two canteens were randomly selected to display either a vegetable-related or a neutral-behavior norm message.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents data on model cheeses extracted from the BaGaTel database. The data are issued from 6 different research projects in which data on composition, rheological and sensory properties were collected. The manufacturing of the 68 different samples is described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong the different indicators that quantify the spread of an epidemic such as the on-going COVID-19, stands first the reproduction number which measures how many people can be contaminated by an infected person. In order to permit the monitoring of the evolution of this number, a new estimation procedure is proposed here, assuming a well-accepted model for current incidence data, based on past observations. The novelty of the proposed approach is twofold: 1) the estimation of the reproduction number is achieved by convex optimization within a proximal-based inverse problem formulation, with constraints aimed at promoting piecewise smoothness; 2) the approach is developed in a multivariate setting, allowing for the simultaneous handling of multiple time series attached to different geographical regions, together with a spatial (graph-based) regularization of their evolutions in time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe perception of aroma mixtures is based on interactions beginning at the peripheral olfactory system, but the process remains poorly understood. The perception of a mixture of ethyl isobutyrate (Et-iB, strawberry-like odor) and ethyl maltol (Et-M, caramel-like odor) was investigated previously in both human and animal studies. In those studies, the binary mixture of Et-iB and Et-M was found to be configurally processed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOdor-taste association has been successfully applied to enhance taste perception in foods with low sugar or low salt content. Nevertheless, selecting odor descriptors with a given associated taste remains a challenge. In the aim to look for odors able to enhance some specific taste, we tested different multivariate analyses to find links between taste descriptors and odor descriptors, starting from a set of data previously obtained using gas chromatography/olfactometry-associated taste: 68 odorant zones described with 41 odor descriptors and 4 taste-associated descriptors (sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, and sourness).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutritional supplements are prescribed when one's nutritional status is not conducive to good health. These foodstuffs constitute concentrated sources of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids. For nutritional supplements to be effective, patients must consume the amount that has been prescribed for the recommended period of time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalt reduction in foods is becoming an important challenge to protect population health from severe diseases as recommended by different health agencies worldwide. Among the reduction strategies already evaluated in order to lower sodium salt content in foods, the use of cross-modal interactions between taste and odour, regardless of saltiness, was revealed to be a very promising method to improve saltiness perception. Cross-modal odour-taste interactions, as means to enhance salty taste in foods, is reviewed.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo better understand wine aroma persistence, the nasal cavity of nine volunteers was monitored by Proton Transfer Reaction-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) after they rinsed their mouths with three rosé wines (one control and the same wine supplemented with two tannin extracts) during four minutes. Wines were aromatised with a mixture of five target aroma compounds. Results showed that wine aroma persistence was highly compound-dependent: while esters disappeared very fast, other compounds such as linalool remained in the oral cavity for longer times after wine expectoration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOdorant-metabolizing enzymes are critically involved in the clearance of odorant molecules from the environment of the nasal neuro-olfactory tissue to maintain the sensitivity of olfactory detection. Odorant metabolism may also generate metabolites in situ, the characterization and function of which in olfaction remain largely unknown. Here, we engineered and validated an ex vivo method to measure odorant metabolism in real-time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim was to evaluate the association of self-perceived levels of attention deficit and hyperactivity symptoms with non-migraine and migraine headaches among university students. We also evaluated their association with migraine aura.
Methods: Study subjects were all participants in the internet-based Students Health Research Enterprise.
Background: Transposable elements are biologically important components of eukaryote genomes. In particular, non-LTR retrotransposons (N-LTRrs) played a key role in shaping the human genome throughout evolution. In this study, we compared retrotransposon insertions differentially present in the genomes of Anatomically Modern Humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Chimpanzees, in order to assess the possible impact of retrotransposition in the differentiation of the human lineage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper reports the main trends and perspectives related to the current understanding of the relationships between saliva and flavor perception. Saliva is a key factor in flavor perception and controls the transport of flavor molecules to their receptors, their adsorption onto the mouth surfaces (i.e.
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