8 Flashcards
gluten is made from?
gliadin and glutenin
adding bran decreases the volume of the end product, therefore increase ____ and ____ to compensate
flour and liquid
when substituting sweet and low for sugar in a recipe, use ____
half as much
excess mixing in cakes can cause
overdeveloped glute
tunnels from top to bottom, tough, heavy product
What FTC stands for?
Federal Trade Commission
regulates the content of food ads: enforces truth-in-labeling; challenges product claims when product crosses state lines
What FCC stands for?
Federal Communications Commission
licenses radio and tv
What is a cohort study?
In a cohort study, an outcome or disease-free study population is first identified by the exposure or event of interest and followed in time until the disease or outcome of interest occurs
Sometimes called incidence studies tracking the frequency of new cases of a disease.
Retrospective cohort studies use existing data and look back for a relationship between exposure factors and outcomes.
What is a Quasi-experimental design study?
TIME SERIES - series of measurements at periodic intervals before the program begins and after the program ends.
It shows whether measurements before and after the program are a continuation of previous patterns or whether they indicate a noteworthy change.
Quasi-experiments are studies that aim to evaluate interventions but that do not use randomization.
What are Case-control studies?
Is a type of OBSERVATIONAL study commonly used to look at factors associated with diseases or outcomes.
Focus on a specific disease
those with the disease are compared with a group without the disease, but otherwise similar in characteristics
both groups recall past behaviors, to study how groups differ
What are Cross-sectional studies?
looks at prevalence
one time data collection counting all of the cases of a specific disease among a group of people at a particular time
SNAP-SHOT look at one point in time; describes current, not past nor future events
when screening for a particular condition;
____ = proportion of afflicted individuals who test positive
sensitivity
when screening for a particular condition;
____ = proportion of non-afflicted identified as non-afflicted
specificity
What is a dependent variable?
the dependent variable is outcomes.
effect cholesterol levels (independent) have on heart attacks (dependent)
What is an independent variable?
is what you manipulate in your study.
treatment for diseases are independent variables (you can change the treatment to affect the disease)
What is the median in the sequence below?
12 15 17 19 21 23 24 24 30 32
21 23