Studies of terrestrial arthropod N limitation have frequently considered N not only in isolation, but in relation to quantities of plant defensive chemicals and carbohydrates.
We examined the 11-year incidence of T2D in relation to quantity and variety of fruit, vegetables, and combined F&V intake in a case-cohort study of 3,704 participants (n = 653 diabetes cases) nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk study, who completed 7-day prospective food diaries.
However, serum OC concentrations and lipids are affected postprandially and need to be considered in relation to quantity and timing of food consumption (Phillips et al. 1989).
Publication performance of Canada, Oceania, Western European countries and the USA was better in relation to quantity and quality of articles as compared with the other regions.
More quantities of Hg formed complex with the soluble EPS in the supernatant than cell-bound EPS in relation to amount of EPS produced.
For analysis of lead concentration in relation to the quantity of spent ammunition visible on X-rays of the carcass, we used the number of pellet equivalents, with all fragments greater than 10% of an intact pellet being summed (the example given above would be scored as 1.6 pellets).
In further analyses, for the 3 most common cancers and all cancers combined, vegans were examined as a separate group; and in further analyses for colorectal cancer we examined risk in relation to the quantity of meat consumed (categories of meat intake: ≥100, 50 99, or <50 g/d; fish eaters; vegetarians).
It is also important to know the variation in ingested dose between individuals, related to the dispersion of the pathogens in the inoculum, but also in relation to different quantities of the inoculum being ingested.
We believe that our Q-Q formulation for modeling complex population dynamics provides a much more powerful tool for addressing such questions than paradigms that currently ignore interactions between the quantity and quality aspects of consumers in relation to the quantity and quality of the resources they exploit.
In developed and developing countries alike, no factor is of greater importance in relation to the quantity and quality of education; it is significant that a substantial proportion of the budget of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is devoted to the improvement of teacher preparation.
