Special Issue on “Progress in Food Processing in Section Food Processes”

Special Issue: Progress in Membrane Engineering for Food and Biotechnology Industries

Special Section: Chromosomes to Food Security

Chromosome aberrations and their impact on human health have been recognized for a long time. In the 1950s, in India, studies on induced chromosome aberrations in plants were initiated by Swaminathan and his students. I trace here the impact of these initial studies on further developments in this field. The studies which were started in plants have been extended to mammals (including human) an...

Designing for human-food interaction: An introduction to the special issue on 'food and interaction design'

While food has appeared in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research to some extent from the turn to everyday activities, in its own right HCI research on food, or 'Human–Food Interaction' (HFI), has emerged as an area of significant interest in the HCI community in the last few years (see for example Choi et al., 2012; Choi et al. 2013; Comber et al., 2012a, 2012b). In these few years, 'food' ...

Special issue: Progress in shoulder biomechanics.

This special issue presents papers that arose from the bi-annual International Shoulder Group (ISG) meeting in Minneapolis in July 2010. The ISG is a collaboration of mostly biomechanically oriented research groups, whose main interest is in the shoulder. It was founded in 1989 and has been a Technical Group of the International Society of Biomechanics since 1999. The ISG aims to enhance should...

Food and agriculture Food irradiation makes progress

About a quarter of the world's food production is lost after harvesting, even though a number of food preservation methods are readily available. Losses occur especially in the tropical regions where most developing countries are situated: perhaps because the available food preservation technologies do not function efficiently in such environments, or because they do not lend themselves to the ...