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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Introduction.- PART 1: WHY SMALLHOLDERS REMAIN KEY FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY?.- The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World.- Importance of Smallholder Farms as a Relevant Strategy to Increase Food Security.- Rural development strategies and Africa''s small farms.- PART 2: HOW TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE OPORTUNITIES TO SMALLHOLDERS?.- Inorganic Fertiliser use among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for input subsidy policies.- Global change and investments in smallholder irrigation for food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa.- Smallholder farmers'' access to inputs and finance in Africa.- Policies for Improved Food Security: The Roles of Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets.- PART 3: REVISITING THE CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURE TO NUTRITION SECURITY.- Transforming smallholder agriculture to achieve the SDGs.- Impact of Casual and Permanent Off-Farm Activities on Food Security: The Case of India.- The Superior Role of Agricultural Growth in Reducing Child Stunting: An Instrumental Variables Approach.- Conclusions.

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Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India - Prabhu Pingali - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India - Prabhu Pingali - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This open access book examines the interactions between India''s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a "Food Systems Approach (FSA)." The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India''s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.

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Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Jean Walrand - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Jean Walrand - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, classification, and estimation. He then explains how these applications work and, along the way, provides the readers with the understanding of the key concepts and methods of applied probability. Python labs enable the readers to experiment and consolidate their understanding. The book includes homework, solutions, and Jupyter notebooks. This edition includes new topics such as Boosting, Multi-armed bandits, statistical tests, social networks, queuing networks, and neural networks. For ancillaries related to this book, including examples of Python demos and also Python labs used in Berkeley, please email Mary James at mary.james@springer.com. This is an open access book.

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Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This open access book establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective healthcare. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) positions a person in the center of a healthcare system, instead of defining a patient as a set of diagnoses and treatment episodes. The PCC-based conceptual background triggers enhanced application of Artificial Intelligence, as it dissolves the limits of processing traditional medical data records, clinical tests and surveys. Enhanced knowledge for diagnosing, treatment and rehabilitation is captured and utilized by inclusion of data sources characterizing personal lifestyle, and health literacy, and it involves insights derived from smart ambience and wearables data, community networks, and the caregivers'' feedback. The book discusses intelligent systems and their applications for healthcare data analysis, decision making and process design tasks. The measurement systems and efficiency evaluation models analyze ability of intelligent healthcare system to monitor person health and improving quality of life.

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Orthogeriatrics - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Orthogeriatrics - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Open access publication has been possible through an unconditional educational grant from UCB. This new open access edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this expertise is sorely needed. It has been extensively revised and updated by the experts of this network to provide a unique and reliable content in one single volume. Throughout the book, attention is given to the difficult question of how to provide best practice in countries where the discipline of geriatric medicine is not well established and resources for secondary prevention are scarce. The revised and updated chapters on the epidemiology of hip fractures, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, surgery, anaesthesia, medical management of frailty, peri-operative complications, rehabilitation and nursing are supplemented by six new chapters. These include an overview of the multidisciplinary approach to fragility fractures and new contributions on pre-hospital care, treatment in the emergency room, falls prevention, nutrition and systems for audit. The reader will have an exhaustive overview and will gain essential, practical knowledge on how best to manage fractures in elderly patients and how to develop clinical systems that do so reliably.

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Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost - Bo Wang - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost - Bo Wang - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn''t possible to accelerate software projects by simply adding staff. This is sometimes known as the "nine women can''t make a baby in one month" problem. The most famous treatise declaring this to be impossible is Fred Brooks'' 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month , in which he declares that "adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later," and indeed this has proven largely true over the decades. Aided by a domain-driven code generator that quickly creates database and API code, Parallel Agile (PA) achieves significant schedule compression using parallelism: as many developers as necessary can independently and concurrently develop the scenarios from initial prototype through production code. Projects can scale by elastic staffing, rather than by stretching schedules for larger development efforts. Schedule compression with a large team of developers working in parallel is analogous to hardware acceleration of compute problems using parallel CPUs. PA has some similarities with and differences from other Agile approaches. Like most Agile methods, PA "gets to code early" and uses feedback from executable software to drive requirements and design. PA uses technical prototyping as a risk-mitigation strategy, to help sanity-check requirements for feasibility, and to evaluate different technical architectures and technologies. Unlike many Agile methods, PA does not support "design by refactoring," and it doesn''t drive designs from unit tests. Instead, PA uses a minimalist UML-based design approach (Agile/ICONIX) that starts out with a domain model to facilitate communication across the development team, and partitions the system along use case boundaries, which enables parallel development. Parallel Agile is fully compatible with the Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), which involves concurrent effort of a systems engineering team, a development team, and a test team working alongside the developers. The authors have been researching and refining the PA process for several years on multiple test projects that have involved over 200 developers. The book''s example project details the design of one of these test projects, a crowdsourced traffic safety system.

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Future Foods - David Julian Mcclements - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Future Foods - David Julian Mcclements - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

We are in the midst of an unprecedented era of rapid scientific and technological advances that are transforming the way our foods are produced and consumed. Food architecture is being used to construct healthier, tastier, and more sustainable foods. Functional foods are being created to combat chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. These foods are fortified with nutraceuticals or probiotics to improve our mood, performance, and health. The behavior of foods inside our guts is being controlled to increase their healthiness. Precision nutrition is being used to tailor diets to our unique genetic profiles, microbiomes, and metabolisms. Gene editing , nanotechnology , and artificial intelligence are being used to address modern food challenges such as feeding the growing global population,reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, and improving sustainability. However, the application of these technologies is facing a backlash from consumers concerned about the potential risks posed to human and environmental health. Some of the questions addressed in this book are: What is food architecture? How does sound and color impact taste? Will we all have 3D food printers in all our homes? Should nanotechnology and gene editing be used to enhance our foods? Are these new technologies safe? Would you eat bug-foods if it led to a more sustainable food supply? Should vegetarians eat themselves? Can nutraceuticals and probiotics stop cancer? What is the molecular basis of a tasty sustainable burger? David Julian McClements is a Distinguished Professor in food science who has used physics, chemistry, and biology to improve the quality, safety, and healthiness of foods for over 30years. He has published over 900 scientific articles and 10 books in this area and is currently the most highly cited food scientist in the world. He has won numerous scientific awards for his work. The aim of this book is to highlight the many exciting advances being made in the science of foods, and to show their application for solving important problems related to the modern food supply, such as tackling chronic diseases, feeding a global population, reducing food waste, and creating healthier and tastier foods.

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