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Food Process Engineering and Technology (Food Science and Technology)

Academic Press, 2008

We begin this book with the theme of the 13th World Congress of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), held in Nantes, France, in September 2006, in recognition of the vital role of food and food processing in our life. The necessity to subject the natural food materials to some kind of treatment...

Recent Developments in Alcoholism : Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults. Epidemiology. Neurobiology. Prevention. Treatment (Recent Developments in Alcoholism)

Springer, 2005

Even after stepping through the doorway into the 21st century, alcoholism remains a major contributor to the excess morbidity and mortality experienced by Americans. No where is this unmet need more dramatic than its impact on adolescents.

In this edition, the authors cover the wide spectrum of epidemiologic,...

Selenium in Food and Health

Springer, 2006

Selenium is a contradictory nutrient. It has been called the essential poison—too much of it in the diet can be toxic; too little can result in chronic, and sometimes fatal, deficiency. Even health authorities have at times been confused. Although today in the USA, as in most other countries, selenium appears among the trace...

Tea: Bioactivity and Therapeutic Potential (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)

CRC Press, 2002

The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is of particular importance to humans, and the consumption of tea has a long history of over 2000 years. Currently, tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide. In recent years the subject of tea has attracted a great deal of attention. As well as the use of tea in traditional medicine, modern...

Conversational Capital: How to Create Stuff People Love to Talk About

FT Press, 2008

“In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell presents an important idea without any ‘how to.’ Now Bertrand Cesvet provides the ‘how to’ you need to create ‘Tipping Points’ for your business and success. This book is a compelling presentation of a powerful idea. This is how the...

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Just today, a stranger came to my door claiming he was here to unclog a bathroom drain. I let him into my house without verifying his identity, and not only did he repair the drain, he also took off his shoes so he wouldn’t track mud on my floors. When he was done, I gave him a piece of paper that asked my bank to give him some money....

Multi-Mode / Multi-Band RF Transceivers for Wireless Communications: Advanced Techniques, Architectures, and Trends

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Current and future mobile terminals become increasingly complex because they have to deal with a variety of frequency bands and communication standards. Achieving multi-band/multi-mode functionality is especially challenging for the radio frequency (RF)-transceiver section, due to limitations in terms of frequency-agile RF components...

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere (Smashing Magazine Book Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language!

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and...

Food Oral Processing: Fundamentals of Eating and Sensory Perception

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

This volume provides an overview of the latest research findings on the physics, physiology, and psychology of food oral consumption, as well as the experimental techniques available for food oral studies. Coverage includes the main physical and physiological functionalities of the mouth; the location and functionalities of various oral...

Linear and Non-Linear Video and TV Applications: Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Provides options for implementing IPv6 and IPv6 multicast in service provider networks

New technologies, viewing paradigms, and content distribution approaches are taking the TV/video services industry by storm. Linear and Nonlinear Video and TV Applications: Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast identifies five emerging...

Embedded Systems for Smart Appliances and Energy Management

Springer, 2012

The short answer to the question is “yes!” – provided that we can satisfy a key requirement: we must achieve the widespread deployment of intelligent, low-cost, distributed communications that operate down to the level of individual household and office appliances. To understand why we need such a communications...

Pipelined Multiprocessor System-on-Chip for Multimedia

Springer, 2013

This book describes analytical models and estimation methods to enhance performance estimation of pipelined multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs). A framework is introduced for both design-time and run-time optimizations. For design space exploration, several algorithms are presented to minimize the area footprint of a pipelined MPSoC under...

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