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Regulating Health Foods
Policy Challenges and Consumer Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that...
Distributed Database Management Systems
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This book addresses issues related to managing data across a distributed database system. It is unique because it covers traditional database theory and current research, explaining the difficulties in providing a unified user interface and global data dictionary. The book gives implementers guidance...
by K. S. Chalam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Higher Education Policy in India is fraught with several dichotomies. The incongruities in the policies of the colonial and native Indian Rulers were always there. They came out on the surface after Independence. It seems the Reform Agenda of the Successive Governments have not been able to solve...
Africans and the Exiled Life
Migration, Culture, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and...
by Sankar K. Pal, Shubhra S. Ray, Avatharam Ganivada
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book provides a uniform framework describing how fuzzy rough granular neural network technologies can be formulated and used in building efficient pattern recognition and mining models. It also discusses the formation of granules in the notion of both fuzzy and rough sets. Judicious integration...
People and the Peepal
Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and Their Conservation in Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Growing urbanization and its negative impacts on urban ecology have been felt acutely, the world over. Protecting the ecosystem is a major issue on the global agenda and preserving it is a priority. Conservation of tree biodiversity through sustainable ecosystem management approaches is important...
by K. S. Thyagarajan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book describes the principles of image and video compression techniques and introduces current and popular compression standards, such as the MPEG series. Derivations of relevant compression algorithms are developed in an easy-to-follow fashion. Numerous examples are provided in each chapter to illustrate the concepts.
by Shabnam Rezapour, Amirhossein Khosrojerdi, Golnoosh Rasoulifar
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
A fail-safe supply network is designed to mitigate the impact of variations and disruptions on people and corporations. This is achieved by (1) developing a network structure to mitigate the impact of disruptions that distort the network structure and (2) planning flow through the network to neutralize...
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
Doing Play Therapy
From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Covering the process of therapy from beginning to end, this engaging text helps students and practitioners use play confidently and effectively with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with emotional or behavioral problems or life challenges. With an accessible theory-to-practice focus, the...
The Forest Farms of Kandy
and Other Gardens of Complete Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Throughout the tropical world, especially in South and Southeast Asia, tropical America, Africa and Oceania, there exists a range of forest garden farming systems. These are small, low-input, but productive and sustainable family units of highly diversified trees, palms, bushes and vines, with few...
Caffeine
Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Caffeine is known to stimulate the central nervous system but what other functions does it have? This book covers the latest scientific knowledge in a uniquely structured format and is specifically designed to link chemistry with health and nutrition to provide a broad, appealing book. Coverage begins...
by Martin Daněk, Leoš Kafka, Lukáš Kohout
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This book describes a specification, microarchitecture, VHDL implementation and evaluation of a SPARC v8 CPU with fine-grain multi-threading, called micro-threading. The CPU, named UTLEON3, is an alternative platform for exploring CPU multi-threading that is compatible with the industry-standard GRLIB...
by Prajna Kunche, K.V.V.S. Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This book serves as a basic reference for those interested in the application of metaheuristics to speech enhancement. The major goal of the book is to explain the basic concepts of optimization methods and their use in heuristic optimization in speech enhancement to scientists, practicing engineers,...