Abstract Proper food consumption is vital for human survival.The objective of this paper was to conduct a review of empty calories present in processes foods, effects, and relations.Empty calories such as junk foods, ultra processed foods, u healthy foods, fast foods are foods consumed by many because of their luring properties.However, they Creati
This paper presents a new procedure for automatic extraction of the blood vessels and optic Foot Care Collection disk (OD) in fundus fluorescein angiogram (FFA).In order to extract blood vessel centerlines, the algorithm of vessel extraction starts with the analysis of directional images resulting from sub-bands of fast discrete curvelet transform
The lung is a complex system in biology and medicine alike.Whereas there is a good understanding of the anatomy and histology of the embryonic and adult lung, less is known about the molecular details and the cellular pathways that ultimately orchestrate lung formation and affect its health.From a forward genetic approach to identify novel genes in
Background Comorbidity of depression, heart disease, and migraine has been observed in clinical practice, while ambient air pollution has been identified among different risk factors for these health conditions.Suicide attempts and ideations as the result of depression may be linked to air pollution exposure.Therefore the effects of ambient air pol