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Food Drying/ Production Plant [PDF]

Tropical Horticulture Enterprises (T.H.E) is a Ugandan initiative that works to add value to fruits, bananas and vegetables. The main out put of this initiative are processed dried fruits, fresh fruits, banana flour and fresh vegetables.
Kasozi, Maria, Mwegombi, William
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Building Indian Country’s Future through Food, Agriculture,Infrastructure, and Economic Development in the 2018 FarmBill [PDF]

, 2018
With the potential of approximately $1 trillion in spending over 10 years in rural America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs authorized by the Farm Bill have the ability to build and support thriving economies in rural America.
Duren, Colby D., Hipp, Janie Simms, Parker, Erin   +2 more
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Oil‐Coated Nanoplastics Induce Rapid Membrane Disruption and Severe Intestinal Injury

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Oil‐rich food contact dramatically amplifies MNP release from plastic takeout containers, producing oil‐coated nanoplastics with altered surface properties and rapid membrane‐disruptive effects. These particles cause severe intestinal barrier damage and immune dysfunction in mice, and risk modeling suggests that long‐term gastrointestinal burdens may ...
Ruwen Xie, Gulimire Yilihan, Qiong Chen, Dachuan Lin, Zhen Liu, Mengyi Yuan, Yujia Wang, Haoteng Xu, Weishang Zhou, Wanxin Gong, Yueer Li, Chen Peng, Tong Yang, Peng Gao, Qing Liu, Xin‐Hua Feng, Mu Xiao, Chao Jiang   +17 more
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Certification of public organic procurement in Denmark, Finland, Italy and Norway as compared to Germany [PDF]

, 2010
In the iPOPY project (innovative Public Organic food Procurement for Youth), one of the tasks was to map the challenges linked to the supply chains of organic food, and to which extent the participating countries have developed any form of certification ...
Lukas, Melanie, Løes, Anne-Kristin, Strassner, Carola   +2 more
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Artesunate Ameliorates APAP‐induced Liver Injury by Promoting NEDD4L‐Mediated Ubiquitination and Degradation of TXNIP

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liver injury can lead to severe acute liver failure and even death in patients. Artesunate (ART), which is a derivative of artemisinin that has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of malaria, has significant regulatory effects on cell death and inflammation.
Zhe Zhang, Hongyi Zhang, Haixiang Guo, Xiwen Zhang, Yidan Wang, Baoyin Wang, Tong Wang, Guokun Zhao, Qing Zhang, Fei Gao, Shuang Liang, Hao Jiang, Yu Ding, Xiliang Du, Jiabao Zhang, Yi Zheng, Xinwei Li, Bao Yuan   +17 more
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An application of data mining to fruit and vegetable sample identification using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry [PDF]

, 2012
One of the uses of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is in the detection of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables. In a high throughput laboratory there is the potential for sample swaps or mislabelling, as once a sample has been pre ...
Fletcher, Dale, Holmes, Geoffrey, Reutemann, Peter   +2 more
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang, Yadong Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Guirui Yu   +3 more
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Engineering Approaches to Modify Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs): Tissue Regeneration and Clinical Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang, Kejia Li, Ning Wang, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Rocky S. Tuan, Yangzi Jiang   +6 more
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Effects of Chlorella vulgaris, Microchloropsis Gaditana and Gracilaria vermiculophylla algae extracts on maturing and mature 3T3-L1 adipocytes

Scientific Reports
The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide, and it is a risk factor for various metabolic disorders. White adipose tissue expansion depends on hyperplasia and hypertrophy of adipocytes, thus the search for new tools that target these two processes
Maitane González-Arceo, Leixuri Aguirre, Jone Ibarruri, Marta Cebrián, María Angeles Martín, María P. Portillo, Saioa Gómez-Zorita   +6 more
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Out of the shadow of famine [PDF]

Over the past two decades, Bangladesh has transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine. The authors, in this report, describe this remarkable transformation.
IFPRI
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