Natural Observation of Alcohol Price and Promotions at Bars: Implications for Alcohol Misuse Prevention.

Alcohol misuse among young adults remains a primary public health concern given the wide range of short- and long-term physical, social, and societal consequences of the behavior. On-premise drinking establishments, which allow alcohol consumption on site (i.e.

Highly selective and compact tunable MOEMS photonic crystal Fabry-Perot filter.

The authors report a compact and highly selective tunable filter using a Fabry-Perot resonator combining a bottom micromachined 3-pair-InP/air-gap Bragg reflector with a top photonic crystal slab mirror. It is based on the coupling between radiated vertical cavity modes and waveguided modes of the photonic crystal. The full-width at half maximum (FWHM) of the resonance, as measured by microreflectivity experiments, is close to 1.

Optimisation of a silicon/silicon dioxide substrate for a fluorescence DNA microarray.

This paper presents a comprehensive theory and experimental characterisation of the modulation of the fluorescence intensity by the construction of optical interferences on oxidised silicon substrates used for DNA microarrays. The model predicts a 90-fold variation of the fluorescence signal depending on the oxide thickness. For a Cy3 dye, the signal is maximal for a 90 nm oxide thickness corresponding to a 7.

Effect of carbohydrate ingestion on adipose tissue lipolysis during long-lasting exercise in trained men.

To study whether sucrose administration acts on lipid mobilization during prolonged exercise, we used subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue microdialysis in eight well-trained subjects submitted at random to two 100-min exercises (50% maximal aerobic power) on separate days. After 50 min of exercise, the subjects ingested either a sucrose solution (0.75 g/kg body wt) or water.

Adipose tissue lipolysis and hormone-sensitive lipase expression during very-low-calorie diet in obese female identical twins.

Eight pairs of obese female monozygotic twins were subjected to a 4-week, very-low-calorie diet (VLCD) that induced a decrease in mean body mass index from 32.9 +/- 1.1 to 29.