After the generalized famine fevers had come to an end in England they continued to scourge Ireland for centuries, where their course may be taken as a repetition of the happenings in England in earlier times. During the eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth, large numbers of the Irish peasantry. lived in a deplorable state of poverty; lacking reserves, one or two bad seasons might suff...

OBJECTIVE Early developmental adaptations in response to undernutrition may play an essential role in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, particularly for those experiencing a "mismatched rich nutritional environment" in later life. We examined the associations of exposure to the Chinese famine (1959-1961) during fetal life and childhood with the risk of hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in adul...

BACKGROUND Associations have been found between a large head size at birth and atopy, and between low birth weight and obstructive airways disease. A study was undertaken of people born around the time of the Dutch famine in 1944-5 to determine the effects of maternal malnutrition during specific periods of gestation on the prevalence of obstructive airways disease and atopy. METHODS Nine hun...

Areas Surveyed During 1961, school children aged 8 to 14 years were examined in six different areas of the Central, Lake, and West Lake Provinces of Tanganyika. Those in the neighbourhood of Mwanza (Lake Province) and Mvumi (Central Province) formed part of the group previously reported. Mvumi has suffered from famine intermittently for many years. The latest famine occurred in 1953-54, so that...

Food security has become an issue of serious concern because global food supplies are threatened by systemic collapse. increasing demand for food caused by global population growth, changing lifestyles in developing countries, climate change and competition with bio fuels are combining to create a ‘perfect storm’ (godfray et al, 2010). Moreover, short-term weather pattern changes leading to flo...

The subject of this interdisciplinary article is the case British journalists Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge. In 1933 they were first only ones to draw world’s attention tragedy in USSR: Soviet power destroyed foundation traditional Russian society, i.e. peasantry — for sake rapid industrialisation country, socialisation agriculture radical transformation man. price new “main revolution” (...

This article considers the representation of controversial issue Great Irish Famine (1845–50) in 27 recent and UK history textbooks for secondary level. Key contested issues – imports exports, British government’s laissez-faire economic policy, providentialist interpretations, victim–perpetrator discourses have long formed part narrative repertoire history; their narrativisation is analysed thr...

Water and basin management, which is an important aspect of the environmental economy, significant in terms energy production, development, ecosystem integrity as well drinking usage purposes. Besides global warming famine effects, protection water resources, industrial supply, quality improvement, management issues have been emphasized Türkiye within “Water Framework Directive” scope. In this ...

Microorganisms are constantly exposed to rapidly changing conditions, under natural as well as industrial production scale environments, especially due to large-scale substrate mixing limitations. In this work, we present an experimental approach based on a dynamic feast/famine regime (400 s) that leads to repetitive cycles with moderate changes in substrate availability in an aerobic glucose c...