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Protein and iron source snack bar made from Mlanding Tempeh – A fermented Lamtoro (Leucaena leucocephala)
(2022-08-31)
Mlanding tempeh is an Indonesian fermented food made from Lamtoro (Leucaena leucocephala), a tropical legume that contains complete nutrients and has high productivity and ability to adapt to dry climates. This traditional treatment seems improve its nutritional value, particularly the protein profile. However the short shelf life and low acceptance hinder this food to support community nutrition. This study introduced an effort to process this indigenous fermented legume into a snack bar which has better acceptance ...
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Economics of food safety practices among cassava processors in northcentral Nigeria
(2022-08-31)
Food safety is a critical issue and a growing public health concern. Cassava being one of the staple foods widely consumed by the majority of households in Africa involves several processes. Assessment of the safety practices adopted by the processors is important to assist marketers and consumers towards the product to avoid food poisoning. Thus, this research assessed the economics of food safety practices adopted by cassava processors. Data collected from randomly selected 120 cassava processors were analysed using ...
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Adoption and effectiveness of hermetic storage bags to reduce staple food postharvest loss for sustainability in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality, Ghana
(2022-07-31)
Postharvest loss is a major problem facing agricultural households in the global south. It is in this context that the introduction of hermetic storage bags is viewed by many as a key solution to averting postharvest loss, especially for grains which are essential to food security. While there have been policy efforts to increase the availability of hermetic storage bags for farmers, little is known regarding the extent of its adoption and effectiveness in reducing grain loss. This study fills this empirical vacuum ...
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Future of Cultured Meat Production: Hopes and Hurdles
(2022-08-31)
Rising environmental issues, animal welfare concerns and vulnerable food supply chain especially during pandemics, as COVID-19 demands an effective and long-term solution for food security in future. All of these challenges encourage the researchers to find more reliable and clean ways of food production such as cultured meat. This process involved the production of animal meat in lab using large bioreactors without raising animals. Cultured meat production is widely accepted among animal rights activists and it can ...
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Understanding beef cattle production practices and associated factors constraining performance: A survey of smallholder farmers in South Africa
(2022-05-01)
Farm practices of beef cattle smallholders in South Africa are characterized by poor management practices with limited advisory services. This study aimed to assess current beef cattle farming practices and limiting factors for improved beef production in South African smallholder farmers. A questionnaire was administered to 460 individual smallholder farmers purposively selected from seven provinces of South Africa (SA). The questionnaire captured information on demographics and farm profiles, constraints on ...
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Fintech, Philanthropy, and Development: Is KYC the core problem or solution for Digital Inclusion?
(2022-04)
This paper explores the relationship between digital identity data and fintech, showing that security, and not just financialisation, is the appropriate lens to examine technologies for financial access. These technologies are supported by the nexus of finance, development, and philanthropy, ostensibly to facilitate welfare policies. But they are also part of a global security imperative. This is because the need for digital identity databases emerges from regulations to counter terror finance. Examples from India ...
Dissertation
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Algorithmic Reduction of Biochemical Reaction Networks
(2022-02-25)
The dynamics of species concentrations of chemical reaction networks are given by autonomous first-order ordinary differential equations. Singular perturbation methods allow the computation of approximate reduced systems that make explicit several time scales with corresponding invariant manifolds. This thesis presents:
1. An algorithmic approach for the computation of such reductions on solid analytical grounds. Required scalings are derived using tropical geometry. The existence of invariant manifolds is subject ...
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Influencing factors of performance of agricultural cooperatives in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
(2022-03-22)
The study identifies the influencing factors of the performance of agricultural cooperatives (ACs) in the Mekong Delta (MD) of Vietnam. The study used a disproportionate stratified sampling method, with 308 valid samples collected from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the districts and the Management Boards of ACs in 9 provinces in MD. Performance of AC is measured against five indicators, namely return on sales (ROS), return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), responsiveness to cooperative ...
Buch
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Statik und Einflussfunktionen - vom modernen Standpunkt aus
(2022-01-06)
Darstellung der rechnerorientierten Statik mit besonderer Betonung der Rolle der Einflussfunktionen für die moderne Statik:
Den Anstoß zu dem Buch gab die Erkenntnis, dass die Methode der finiten Elemente ein Rechnen mit genäherten Einflussfunktionen ist. Ein klassisches Thema der Baustatik ist mit den finiten Elementen wieder auferstanden. Das war zunächst überraschend, aber es war dann Anlass die Grundlagen der Statik aus der Sicht der computational mechanics neu zu überdenken. Mit computational mechanics meinen ...