food+energy+and+survival

... instability, and political and social upheavals related to struggles over scarce resources Increasing demand for food and energy is projected at the same time as the supply of land and other resources ... utilization and stewardship, better nutrition and health, and understanding of the interconnections between food and energy sources Achieving these outcomes will require that research be performed and ... Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (nutrition and microbiome), DOE (energy capture and methane utilization), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (enteropathogens and other...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... of food higher for appeal and desire; and 5) energy density of food would be positively associated with food appeal and desire to eat ratings Methods Image Set Development Over 600 images of food ... analyses among scores for food appeal, desire, and energy and sugar densities of the foods were analyzed Appeal and desire were negatively correlated with energy density of the foods presented in the ... relationships among food appeal ratings and ratings of desire to eat, food categories, portion size, energy density, and participant characteristics Our primary hypotheses included: 1) food appeal and desire...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... 100 50 30 25 20 15 10 12000 Food waste composition 1.00 Food waste composition 0.80 Food waste composition 0.60 Food waste composition 0.40 Food waste composition 0.20 Food waste composition 0.00 ... contour lines against food waste composition and VS concentration CONCLUSIONS Food waste and sewage sludge at various VS concentration (from 0.5 to 5.0 %, w/v) and mixing ratio of food waste to sewage ... environment, 2002) Food waste is the major source of decay, odor, and leachate in collection and transportation due to the high volatile solids (VS; 80~90%) and moisture content (75~85%) Food waste,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... controlled - 168 - MATERIALS AND METHODS Feedstock and seeding source Food waste collected from a school cafeteria, and paper waste comprised of toilet paper, newspaper, and copy paper were shredded ... standard temperature and pressure (STP), 0°C and 760 mmHg The contents of CH4, N2, and CO2 were determined by gas chromatography (GC; Gow Mac series 580) using a thermal conductivity detector and ... El-Zanati E A and Hamad M A (1993) Dry anaerobic fermentation of agricultural residues, Biomass and Bioenergy, 5(6), 495499 - 175 - Saxena R C., Adhikari D K and Goyal H B (2009) Biomass-based energy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... efficiency and renewable investments Conclusions and future work This research evaluates the relationship between environmental and energy factors and explores the value in tracking energy and environmental ... impact on energy consumption and decreases the BOD level in the influent water The integrated model requires that distribution be created between the demand and the energy consumption Energy efficiency ... usage intensity and energy efficiency is calculated Develop energy consumption model Note COD and BOD levels Yes Improvement in energy consumption? Note amount of bio-solids and GHS emissions...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... temperature and interface location at any instant can be easily obtained by integrating equations (5) and (6) with respect to X and Fo respectively and subsequent application of the initial and boundary ... International Energy & Environment Foundation All rights reserved 454 International Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 3, 2010, pp.445-458 enhancement in both the energy storage and ... experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer during technical grade paraffin melting and solidification in a shell and tube latent heat thermal energy storage unit Sol Energy 2005,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... Uchida, and R Shimada, “Power up and efficiency improvement of wind turbine generator by magnetic energy recovery switch,” IPEC-Niigata 2005, 2005 T Takaku, G Homma, T Isobe, S Igarashi, Y Uchida, and ... the output voltage will drop and the power output is limited (Fig 10(b) On the other hand, the MERS can cancel the voltage drop across the synchronous reactance and control the phase of the current ... case In summary, this indicates that the MERS configuration can contribute to energy savings and promote renewable energy conversion B Induction heating Fig 11 1) Controllable frequency induction...

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2013, 16:10

... Energy Tax • you can’t break even! • to recharge a battery with 100 kJ of • useful energy will require more than 100 kJ every energy transition results in a “loss” of energy  conversion of energy ... Energy, ∆G ΔGo = ΔHo - TΔSo • process will be spontaneous when ∆G is negative • ∆G will be negative when • •  ∆H is negative and ∆S is positive exothermic and more random  ∆H is negative and ... enthalpy and the entropy • The enthalpy is a comparison of the bond energy of the reactants to the products bond energy = amount needed to break a bond  ∆H • The entropy factors relates to the randomness/orderliness...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2013, 01:12

... kinetic energy K = 1J Work: (symbol W) If a force F is applied to an object of mass m it can accelerate it and increase its speed v and kinetic energy K Similarly F can decelerate m and decrease ... m m Kinetic Energy: We define a new physical parameter to describe the state of motion of an object of mass m and speed v We define its kinetic energy K as: mv K= We can use ... can decelerate m and decrease its kinetic energy We account for these changes in K by saying that F has transferred energy W to or from the object If energy it transferred to m (its K increases)...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 05:15

... transfers energy from the kinetic energy of the block to a type of energy called thermal energy This energy transfer cannot be reversed Thermal energy cannot be transferred back to kinetic energy ... remains constant As the pendulum swings, the total energy E is transferred back and forth between kinetic energy K of the bob and potential energy U of the bob-earth system We assume that U is ... Conservative and non-conservative forces The gravitational force as the spring force are called “conservative” because the can transfer energy from the kinetic energy of part of the system to potential energy...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 00:16

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 01:50

... reclassification was carried out for upstream protection land (UPL), production forest land (PFL), convertible land (CL), cultivated land and plain as shown in Table The results show that high erosion ... potential mainly distributes on the convertible land, the upstream protection land, and the production forest land However, we have only researched and categorized the erosion potential in Binh ... and has total area of 39.307 hectares (43.4% in the convertible land) This group has low centralization level of convertible land and low erosion potential level + Group of the convertible land...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... scores and meta-analysis; and (d) end with an integrative summary and commentary that provides clinical and public policy implications and a look to the future The Key Studies Spiegel (2001) and ... Claims about survival benefits are often made using statistical techniques and interpretations that are unfamiliar to social and behavioral scientists Survival curves, slopes analysis, and proportional-hazard ... comply with PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SURVIVAL 371 Table Methodological Concerns and Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Scores Investigator Methodological and analytical concerns CONSORT...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... Food Security and World Food Summit Plan of Action, World Food Summit Rome, Italy FAO (1999a) ‘Agriculture, Trade and Food Security: Issues and Options in WTO negotiations,’ Report and papers of ... Development, Health and the Environment: Factors Influencing Infant and Child Survival in South Africa by John H Romani and Barbara A Anderson ISSN 1684-5250 Issue R 32.00 Food Security and Sustainable ... morbidity and mortality, which both worsened and was exacerbated by the food crisis, creating a dual tragedy Commercial and subsistence agriculture are particularly susceptible to the pandemic and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... the energy flows and species interactions in marine food webs and communities simply because all fished species are components of food webs and interact with other species through predation and ... section defines and explains what food webs are and how they are viewed and analyzed, reviews information on trophic cascades in food webs, and considers top-down (consumercontrol) and bottom-up ... escalating Today, a significant portion of energy and protein from fish and invertebrates is directed toward human uses (Watson and Pauly 2001, Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] 2002) (see...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... uorescence at time t, F0 is the initial uorescence, AOJ, AJI and AIP are the amplitudes, and kOJ, kJI and kIP are the rate constants of the OJ, JI and IP steps of the uorescence transient EA values were ... by the JI (32 5%) and IP (22 2%) phases Figure also shows that clear separation and distinction between the kinetics of each rise is achieved The half-times of the OJ, JI and IP rises were 0.20 ... additives at 15 C (1) and 25 C (2) or in the presence of lM 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) at 15 C (3) and 25 C (4), or lM decylplastoquinone (dPQ) at 15 C (5) and 25 C (6) ture used...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... mice revealed that DBP, HLF, and TEF regulate primarily the transcription of genes involved in hepatic, renal, and intestinal detoxification and genes of the innate and adaptive immune system REV-ERBalpha, ... role is to control 1.5 Signaling and Cancer: Nuclear Receptor Connection S1.5-1 Androgen action and prostate carcinogenesis F Saatcioglu ¸ ˘ Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department ... c-h.heldin@licr.uu.se Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) affect cell growth, survival and migration, and have important functions during the embryonal...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... lymph nodes and surgical margins, and blood samples from patients and 868 controls Combining genomic and proteomic techniques, differences in gene and protein expression profiles from HNSCC and normal ... Acpc), and b-methylphenylalanine were designed and synthesized to obtained more potent and more selective l- and dopioid receptor ligands or higher stability against proteolytic enzymes Radioligand-binding ... nucleus caudatus (NC) and SN from controls (C) and patients with PD Materials and Method: The initial samples consisted of 18 subjects of PD and C Brains were matched with age and postmortem time...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... nitrite/nitrate and VEGF-A levels on survival were evaluated Results: Serum nitrite/nitrate and VEGF-A levels of lung cancer patients and control group were 93.7 ± 48.9 and 63.7 ± 32.2 lM (P = 0.018), and ... CREB activation and its consequences on SMC migration and OPN regulation Stimulation of cultured SMC by UTP and PDGF-BB highly induces CREB activation via ERK1/2 and p38, and via p38 and PKA respectively ... in vitro and in vivo, and also upregulated the transcription and expression of TNFa and MIP-2 Conclusion: Flagellin is a potent mediator of proinflammatory signaling in cardiomyocytes and may represent...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20