the study assessed the quantity and value of food crop outputs of the gender categories in the anambra state. at this research estimated the quantity and energy content of food stuffs consumed as well as required by each gender headed households, estimated the extent and magnitude of food security and insecurity in the area among the gender categories and examined the determinants of food secur...

the main objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of innovation on the market share instability in the iranian food and drinking industry with a 4- digit code. according to schumpeter that states one of the most important hypothesis in this area, says there are a non-linear and an inverse of u-shaped relationship between the two variables of innovation and market share instability. ...

extracellular polymeric substances are defined as high molecular weight compounds secreted by the microorganisms in the surrounding area. since these extracellular substances are mainly polysaccharide, they are named exopolysaccharide. microbial exopolysaccharides composed of sugar residue have growing interest as a new class of microbial products which can be used in food, pharmaceutical, and ...

in “buying health: the costs of commercialization and an alternative philosophy”, larry r. churchill and shelley c. churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. in this commentary on their article, i draw a connection between churchill and churchill’s account of the commercialization of nutrition and michael pollan’s critique of “nutr...

SPOK is an End-User Development Environment that permits people to monitor, control, and configure smart home services and devices. SPOK has been deployed for more than 4 months in the homes of 5 project team members for testing and refinement, prior to longitudinal experiments in the homes of families not involved in the project. This article reports on the lessons learned in this initial depl...