in recent years, heavy metal contamination of rice in different parts of the world has raised concerns about its safety and provoked crisis in it's global production and trade. in iran, also some studies have reported on the heavy metal contamination of native products. however, the concentration of heavy metals in rice grain could be influenced through preparation and cooking. this study aimed...

We investigate the accuracy of perceptions health risks in India. The context our study is risk developing physical symptoms related to household air pollution caused by cooking. Using field data collected from 588 respondents 17 villages West Bengal, we regress probability on fuel choices predict respondent-specific changes. estimated risks, which treat as objective are then compared with corr...

This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women – who bear disproportionate cooking costs – hav...

This research investigated the combined effects of cooking methods (household griddle (C1), household conventional oven (C2), industrial (C3), storage temperature (refrigeration /freezing) and packaging system (aerobic vacuum), on quality chicken burgers. The results show that refrigeration favours retention moisture content juiciness burgers, but application vacuum (RV) was best option to main...

Abstract Background Household air pollution (HAP) is a recognised risk factor for many diseases, including respiratory cardiovascular/circulatory disorders, adverse pregnancy outcomes and cataracts. Population exposure to biomass fuels, wood, varies among countries from one fuel source the other. This study aimed investigate different sources of HAP in peri-urban rural communities Cameroon. Met...

BACKGROUND There are few population-based studies on household child injury in African countries. OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence, characteristics and risk factors of household and neighbourhood injury among children in semiurban communities in Kumasi, Ghana. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional population-weighted survey of 200 randomly selected caregivers of children under 18, rep...

Recent advances in information technology are making electric household appliances computerized and networked. If our environments could intuit our activities, e.g., by sensors, novel services taking anticipated actions into account would become possible. We propose activity recognition that infers a subject’s next action based on previously observed behaviors. We developed a cooking-support ro...

Measuring cups are everyday instruments used to measure the amount of liquid required for many common household tasks such as cooking. A measuring cup usually has gradations marked on its sides. In this paper we study measuring boxes without gradations which can nevertheless measure any integral amount, say liters, of liquid up to their full capacity. These boxes will be called universal measur...

 Households in rural India depend on traditional fuels – primarily fuelwood-for meeting their daily energy needs.  Fuelwood combustion creates emissions that pose a significant threat to human health and ecological wellbeing.  In times of scarcity, fuelwood dependence can cause inefficiencies in household economy.  Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), a rural development NGO in India, ...