Essays about: "food, palm"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 26 essays containing the words food, palm.

  1. 21. Photon time-of-flight and continuous-wave near-infrared-spectroscopy of human skeletal muscle tissue; a comparative study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Atomfysik; Lunds universitet/Matematisk fysik

    Author : Alfi Shaharin; [2013]
    Keywords : Photon time-of-flight spectrometer; pTOFS; Tissue Saturation; StO2; and CW-NIRS; Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : The focus of this thesis is to perform a comparative study between two noninvasive optical techniques: Photon Time-of-flight Spectroscopy (pTOFS) and a Continuous-wave NIRS system for measuring muscle tissue oxygen saturation. INVOS 5100C (Manufactured in 2011, Serial Number 11-10269, Produced by Somanetics Troy, MI 48084 USA) is such a CW-NIRS system that provides tissue oxygenation using continuous wave Near Infrared Spectroscopy technique and widely used in the hospitals. READ MORE

  3. 22. Can Africa feed the World? : land acquisitions as a solution to global food security

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Leila Mc Elvenney; [2012]
    Keywords : land acquisitions; yield; cereal; calorie; intercrop; crop; global food security; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Ensuring food security for 9 billion people is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Crop production needs to double by 2050 to keep up with demand from increasing population and income growth. READ MORE

  4. 23. Rapsolja- användning, kemisk sammansättning och odlingsfaktorer

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Food Science

    Author : Maria Smitterberg; [2011]
    Keywords : Rapsolja; Kemisk sammansättning; Rapsodling; Odlingsfaktorer;

    Abstract : Genom litteraturstudien undersöktes rapsoljans kemiska sammansättning och faktorer som påverkar sammansättningen av rapsfröet och rapsoljan under odling. Raps (Brassica napus) tillhör Brassicaceae och är en diploid korsning mellan kålrot (B. oleracea) och rybs (B. rapa). READ MORE

  5. 24. Nipahvirus : patologi hos en nyupptäckt zoonos

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Jenny Fällman; [2010]
    Keywords : Nipahvirus; patologi; gris; människa; zoonos; fladdermöss;

    Abstract : Nipahvirus is most likely spread from bats to other species and causes lethal encephalitis in humans and respiratory illness in pigs. Different species are affected with varying severity but it seems to have an unprecedented zoonotic capacity and the humans affected either die or receive permanent brain damage. READ MORE

  6. 25. Stay below water! - a strategy to avoid seed predators : - seed survival and germination of Mauritia flexuosa in southeastern Peru

    University essay from Ekologi

    Author : Björn Johansson; [2009]
    Keywords : Aguaje; Amazon; germination; insects; Mauritia flexuosa; palm; Peru; seed predation;

    Abstract : The tropical palm Mauritia flexuosa has highly nutritious fruits and is an important food resource for both humans and wildlife throughout its geographic range in South America. Unsustainable harvesting threatens wild populations. Mauritia f. occurs primarily in wetlands called Aguajales where it can become the dominating canopy species. READ MORE