signals DuBois and along the actin myofilaments. Carson, Rachel. Shrink-wrap and cardboard packaging are only infrequently seen, landfills are effectively permanent facilities; that is, they will need to be monitored and maintained for Saffor after they close.

Agriculture is the major source of livelihood for majority (85%) rural population in Mizoram and livestock plays an important role that. Livestock are socially economically very significant due to its multi-functional outputs socio-cultural security. Dairy cattle mainly reared by medium-scale farmers, while poultry pigs sources landless, near marginal small farmers. Even milk productivity cross...

Packaging materials can arise from a wide range of sources and are commonly used for food, medicine, household appliances, items to enclose or protect products during distribution, storage, sale, delivery, use. The choice material (paper, plastic, glass, wood, metal, multi-layer other packaging) be depends on the type properties product, purpose packaging, price.
 aim investigation is anal...

The paper determined optimum farm plan for food security among smallholder farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Data were collected with structured and validated questionnaire from 180 smallholder crops farmers in Imo State. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency distribution and percentages), budgetary analysis and linear programming model. Results show that the mean age of...

The paper determined optimum farm plan for food security among smallholder farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Data were collected with structured and validated questionnaire from 180 smallholder crops farmers in Imo State. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency distribution and percentages), budgetary analysis and linear programming model. Results show that the mean age of...

OBJECTIVE On May 31, 2006, Ontario joined a small group of international jurisdictions to implement legislative restrictions on tobacco point of sale promotions. This study compares the presence of point of sale promotions in the retail tobacco environment from three surveys: one prior to and two following implementation of the legislation. METHOD Approximately 1,575 tobacco vendors were rand...

This study is the first to partially quantify the potential economic benefits that a vaccine, effective at protecting cattle against malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), could accrue to pastoralists living in East Africa. The benefits would result from the removal of household resource and management costs that are traditionally incurred avoiding the disease. MCF, a fatal disease of cattle caused b...

BACKGROUND Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of brominated flame retardants commonly used in a wide range of products. Prenatal exposure to PBDEs has been associated with adverse neurodevelopment. Our objective was to characterize predictors of exposure to PBDEs among a multi-ethnic, low-income cohort of pregnant women enrolled from highly urban communities in New York City bet...

Despite progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition since the 1990s, many still suffer from undernutrition and food insecurity, particularly women and young children, resulting in preterm birth, low birthweight and stunting, among other conditions. Helen Keller International (HKI) has addressed malnutrition and household food insecurity through implementation of an Enhanced Homestead Food Prod...

In markets as diverse as that for specialized industrial equipment or that for retail financial services, sellers or intermediaries may earn profits both from the sale of products and from the provision of pre-sale consultation services. We study how a seller optimally chooses the costly quality of pre-sale information, next to the price of information and the product price, and obtain clear-cu...