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Urban challenges to food and nutrition security [PDF]

This review of recent literature explores the urban face of food and nutrition security in a more comprehensive, integrated way than most previous efforts.
Menon, Purnima, Slack, Alison T., Haddad, Lawrence James, Garrett, James L., Engle, Patrice L., Morris, Saul Sutkover, Oshaug, Arne, Ruel, Marie T., Maxwell, Daniel G.   +8 more
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Differences of Child Under-Nutrition in Bangladesh

Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2014
Despite recent progress shown by some of the indicators of Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh, the nutritional status among all children of the country is not so satisfactory.
Byomkesh Talukder
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Electrochemical Pathways for Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia: From Environmental Challenges to Ammonia Economy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective presents recent advances in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction, focusing on reaction mechanisms, catalyst design, and electrolyzer configurations. Key challenges in selectivity, stability, and practical wastewater treatment are highlighted, while future directions for advancing sustainable ammonia synthesis and nitrate remediation are ...
Xintong Li, Yunpeng Zuo, Xiaoran Zhang, Jieqiong Shan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Bin Liu, Peter Strasser, Adrian Fisher, Zonglong Zhu, Xin Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving maternal and child nutrition services in community based health planning and services zones in the jirapa municipality of northern ghana-challenges and strategies: the perspective of community health officers

BMC Nutrition
Background The Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative plays a key role in delivering maternal and child health nutrition services in Ghana.
Francis Xavier Tengepare, Dennis Chirawurah, Stephen Apanga   +2 more
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Effect of digital nutrition education via WhatsApp and mHealth on maternal nutrition literacy and child feeding practices: A systematic review

AcTion: Aceh Nutrition Journal
Suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices remain a major contributor to child malnutrition, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Fathimah Az Zahra Faiq, Nia Novita Wirawan, Fajar Ari Nugroho   +2 more
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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Does crop diversification determine household nutrition security? Empirical evidence based on mixed methods research approach

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Agriculture plays a key role in nutrition security by enabling farm households to access micronutrient-rich foods through their income. This study evaluated the impact of crop diversity on nutrition security among rural households in Sinana Woreda ...
Dereje Derso, Degafa Tolossa, Abrham Seyoum   +2 more
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Improving child nutrition outcomes in India : can the integrated child development services be more effective? [PDF]

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for ...
Lokshin, Michael, Ivaschenko, Oleksiy, Gragnolati, Michele, Das Gupta, Monica   +3 more
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