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Personalized Nutrition Advice Reduces Intake of Discretionary Foods and Beverages: Findings From the Food4Me Randomized Controlled Trial
Livingstone, Katherine; Celis-Morales, Carlos; Navas-Carretero, Santiago; San-Cristobal, Rodrigo; Forster, Hannah; Woolhead, Clara; O’Donovan, Clare; Moschonis, George; Manios, Yannis; Traczyk, Iwona; Gundersen, Thomas; Drevon, Christian; Marsaux, Cyril; Fallaize, Rosalind; Macready, Anna; Daniel, Hannelore; Saris, Wim; Lovegrove, Julie; Gibney, Mike; Gibney, Eileen; Walsh, Marianne; Brennan, Lorraine; Martinez, J Alfredo; Mathers, John (2023-02-13)Objectives This study aimed to examine changes in intake of discretionary foods and beverages following a personalized nutrition intervention using two national classifications for discretionary foods. Methods Participants ... -
Phage ϕC2 mediates transduction of Tn6215, encoding erythromycin resistance, between Clostridium difficile strains
Goh, Shan; Hussain, Haitham; Chang, Barbara J; Emmett, Warren; Riley, Thomas V; Mullany, Peter (2013-11-19)UNLABELLED: In this work, we show that Clostridium difficile phage ϕC2 transduces erm(B), which confers erythromycin resistance, from a donor to a recipient strain at a frequency of 10(-6) per PFU. The transductants were ... -
Physical activity and sitting time changes in response to the COVID-19 lockdown in England
Bailey, Daniel P.; Wells, Amy V.; Desai, Terun; Sullivan, Keith; Kass, Lindsy (2022-07-21)To reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), national governments implemented measures to limit contact between citizens. This study evaluated changes in physical activity and sitting in response ... -
The Physiological Mechanisms of Effect of Vitamins and Amino Acids on Tendon and Muscle Healing: A Systematic Review
Tack, Chris; Shorthouse, Faye; Kass, Lindsy (2018-05-01)To evaluate the current literature via systematic review to ascertain whether amino acids/vitamins provide any influence on musculotendinous healing and if so, by which physiological mechanisms. Methods: EBSCO, PubMed, ... -
Physiology of the young athlete
Kass, Lindsy (target publishing, 2012-11) -
A pilot study on the effects of magnesium supplementation with high and low habitual dietary magnesium intake on resting and recovery from aerobic and resistance exercise and systolic blood pressure
Kass, Lindsy; Skinner, Phillip; Poeira, Jose Filipe (2013-03)The effects of magnesium supplementation on blood pressure (BP) have been studied for over 25 years and results have been inconsistent. Blood pressure reductions in randomized studies have varied from 12 mmHg reductions ... -
Plant root-exudates recruit hyperparasitic bacteria of phytonematodes by altered cuticle aging: implications for biological control strategies
Mohan, Sharad; Kumar, Kieran; Sutar, Vivek; Saha, Supradip; Rowe, Janet; Davies, Keith (2020-06-09)Phytonematodes are globally important functional components of the belowground ecology in both natural and agricultural soils; they are a diverse group of which some species are economically important pests, and environmentally ... -
Policy and Governance Questions about the National Food Strategy
Parsons, Kelly; Barling, David (University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-14)A new National Food Strategy for England (Part II) has just been published (following on from Part I in 2020). The team in the University of Hertfordshire’s Food Systems & Policy research group have been conducting research ... -
The polymycovirus-mediated growth enhancement of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana is dependent on carbon and nitrogen metabolism
Filippou, Charalampos; Diss, Rebecca Maria; Daudu, John Oluwayemi; Coutts, Robert; Kotta Loizou, Ioli (2021-02-02)Polymycoviridae is a growing family of mycoviruses whose members typically have non-conventional capsids and multi-segmented, double-stranded (ds) RNA genomes. Beauveria bassiana polymycovirus (BbPmV) 1 is known to enhance ... -
Practical experience of using a prediction system to control strawberry powdery mildew
Liu, Bo; Hall, Avice (2013-11-07)Strawberry powdery mildew, caused by Podospheara aphanis, is a major threat to strawberry production in the UK. Infection by P. aphanis causes a progression of symptoms on strawberry plants thus leading to great yield loss. ... -
Practitioners’ perspectives on children’s engagement in Forest School
Harris, Frances (2023-03-03)Forest school is a pedagogical practice widely used in the UK, and increasingly in other parts of the world. This paper contributes to the growing body of research on forest school by focussing on how children engage with ... -
Predicted estimates of resting energy expenditure have limited clinical utility in patients with cirrhosis: an individual patient data analysis
Limon-Miro, Ana Teresa; Jackson, Clive Douglas; Eslamparast, Tannaz; Yamanaka-Okumura, Hisami; Plank, Lindsay Dudley; Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar; Madden, Angela; Ferreira, Livia Garcia; Kalaitzakis, Evangelos; Prieto de Frías, César; Knudsen, Anne Wilkens; Gramlich, Leah; Raman, Maitreyi; Alberda, Cathy; Belland, Dawn; Den Heyer, Vanessa; Tandon, Puneeta; Morgan, Marsha Yvonne (2022-01-26)Background & Aim: Malnutrition is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with cirrhosis. Accurate assessment of energy requirements is needed to optimize dietary intake. Resting energy expenditure (REE), the ... -
QTL mapping for resistance against Pyrenopeziza brassicae derived from a Brassica napus secondary gene pool
Karandeni Dewage, Chinthani Shanika; Cools, Katherine; Stotz, Henrik; Qi, Aiming; Huang, Yongju; Wells, Rachel; Fitt, Bruce (2022-02-04)Use of host resistance is the most economical and environmentally safe way to control light leaf spot disease of oilseed rape (Brassica napus). The causal organism of light leaf spot, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, is one of the ... -
Re-sensitization of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Rifampicin Using CRISPR Interference Demonstrates Its Utility for the Study of Non-essential Drug Resistance Traits
Faulkner, Valwynne; Cox, Adrienne; Goh, Shan; van Bohemen, Annelies; Gibson, Amanda; Liebster, Oliver; Wren, Brendan; Willcocks, Sam; Kendall, Sharon (2021-02-01)A greater understanding of the genes involved in antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is necessary for the design of improved therapies. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat ... -
Recording of higher plants 2017-2019
Denholm, Ian; Mashanova, Alla (2020-09-01)The most recent report of flora recording in Herts was published by Trevor James in the 2017 issue of The Hertfordshire Naturalist (James, 2017). This covered the years 2015 and 2016 and so an update is overdue. Here we ... -
Recording of higher plants 2020
Denholm, Ian; Mashanova, Alla; Biddle, Astrid (2021-10-01) -
Recordings of higher plants 2021
Denholm, Ian; Mashanova, Alla; Biddle, Astrid (2022-11-01) -
The relationship between Europeanisation and policy styles: a study of agricultural and public health policymaking in three EU Member States
Candel, Jeroen; Parsons, Kelly; Barling, David; Loudiyi, Salma (2020-07-27)The role of policy styles in policymaking has attracted renewed scholarly interestin recent years. One of the central debates in this literature revolves around thequestion of how to reconcile archetype national policy ... -
The relationship between the elevation of haemoglobin A1c level, sleep quality and sleep duration in clinically diagnosed pre-diabetic patients in a nationally representative sample
Kass, Lindsy; Sanderson, Julia C; Desai, Terun; Hurst, Rebecca (2022-02-15)Background/objectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most common chronic illnesses in the United Kingdom accounting for approximately 15% of deaths per year. Growing evidence suggests that sleep duration ... -
Reproducibility and relative validity of the EatWellQ8 web-based food frequency questionnaire against a paper-based food frequency questionnaire and a 4-day weighed food record
Al-Awadhi, Balquees; Fallaize, Rosalind; Zenun Franco, Rodrigo; Hwang, Faustina; Lovegrove, Julie A (2021-03-02)Background:The web-based EatWellQ8 food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was developed as a dietary assessment tool for healthy adults in Kuwait. Validation against reliable instruments and an assessment of its reproducibility ...