Review on Ethnomedicines for Diarrhoea Diseases from Orissa:Prevalence Versus Culture
Review on Ethnomedicines for Diarrhoea Diseases from Orissa:Prevalence Versus Culture ~ The credit for the systematic use of plants asmedicaments ever goes to Indians as recordedin Atharva Veda and is subsequently compiledin the form of Aayurveda. A prelude to thecontext, the great Aayurvedic sage physicianCharaka after completion of his tutelage, wasasked by his Guru to [...]
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Afghan Food & Cookery: Noshe Djan
Afghan Food & Cookery: Noshe Djan ~ Afghan Food & Cookery: Noshe Djan Description:Situated at the crossroads of four major regions the Middle East, Central Asia, theIndian subcontinent and the Far East-Afghanistan has survived centuries ofinvasions, whether military, cultural or culinary. Its hearty cuisine includes atempting variety of offerings: lamb, pasta, chickpeas, rice pilafs, flat [...]
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Using The Food Guide Pyramid:A Resource for Nutrition Educators
Using The Food Guide Pyramid:A Resource for Nutrition Educators ~ developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help healthyAmericans use the Dietary Guidelines to choose foods for a healthy diet.Since its release, the Pyramid has captured the imagination of nutrition educators,teachers, the media, and the food industry. It now appears widely in nutritioncurricula, [...]
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Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work
Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work ~ Do you: a) Think food and high-tech belong in the same sentence; b) Own at least one smoker; c) Travelwith your whipped cream canister and multiple cartridges; d) Keep liquid glucose in your pantry; e) Dreamof buying your own $1,000 immersion circulator so you can [...]
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The Oxford Companion to Food
The Oxford Companion to Food ~ Table of Contents • Introduction• List of Contributors• List of Entries by Subject• Notes on Using this Book• 2,650 Alphabetically Arranged Entries• Bibliography• Index of Alternate Names and Sub-topics• Acknowledgements… Arrangement & Indexing • 3,650 Alphabetical entries representingtwenty years of Davidson‟s work.• Contributors list is arranged alphabetically bysurname.• Subject [...]
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Biopsy of Musculoskeletal Tumors: Current Concepts
Biopsy of Musculoskeletal Tumors: Current Concepts ~ Biopsy is a key step in the diagnosis of bone and soft tissue tumors. Aninadequately performed biopsy may fail to allow proper diagnosis, have a negativeimpact on survival, and ultimately necessitate an amputation to accomplishadequate margins of resection. Poorly performed biopsy remains a common findingin patients with musculoskeletal [...]
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Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS
Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS ~ The focus of my talk, as the title suggests, is on thewhat, why, and how of gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS. I would like to thank my colleagues and friends,Ellen Weiss from ICRW and Purnima Mane of thePopulation Council, for helping me put this talktogether. The talk is limited to issues [...]
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The global impact of HIV/AIDS
The global impact of HIV/AIDS ~ The scale of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS epidemic has exceeded all expectations since itsidentification 20 years ago. Globally, an estimated 36 million people are currently living with HIV, and some 20million people have already died, with the worst of the epidemic centred on sub-Saharan Africa. But just asthe [...]
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Liberalisation of Trade in Renewable Energy and Associated Technologies: Biodiesel, Solar Thermal and Geothermal Energy
Liberalisation of Trade in Renewable Energy and Associated Technologies: Biodiesel, Solar Thermal and Geothermal Energy ~ Production and trade Currently, OECD countries account for most of the world’s consumption of biodiesel, and about 85% of its production. Demand throughout the world has been driven largely by tax incentives, regulations on the quality or share of [...]
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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE USE OF SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY AS A PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENERGY
THE PRESENT AND FUTURE USE OF SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY AS A PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENERGY ~ 2. Solar heat At present, solar heating provides by far the largest solar contribution to energy needs. The main technologies belong to either “passive” and “active” solar energy forms. Passive solar energy relates to the design of buildings collecting [...]
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Solar Power – Photovoltaics or Solar Thermal Power Plants? Solar Thermal
Solar Power – Photovoltaics or Solar Thermal Power Plants? ~ Many people associate solar energy directly with photovoltaics and not with solar thermal power generation. Nevertheless, large commercial concentrating solar thermal power plants have been generating electricity at a reasonable cost for more than 15 years and some new solar thermal power plants are soon [...]
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NOVEL IONIC LIQUID THERMAL STORAGE FOR SOLAR THERMAL ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS
NOVEL IONIC LIQUID THERMAL STORAGE FOR SOLAR THERMAL ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS ~ Feasibility of ionic liquids as liquid thermal storage media and heat transfer fluids in a solar thermal power plant was investigated. Many ionic liquids such as [C4min][PF6], [C8mim][PF6], [C4min][bistrifluromethane sulflonimide], [C4min][BF4], [C8mim][BF4], and [C4min][ bistrifluromethane sulflonimide] were synthesized and characterized using thermogravimetric analysis [...]
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