Scientific and commercial interest in the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown immensely over the last decade. Today, a broad range of dietary supplements, foods for weight loss, functional foods, nutraceuticals, and medical foods are widely available. Many of these products are marketed for their effects on behavior or brain function, which relates directly to nutritional neuroscience and raises issues regarding their safety and efficacy.

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In today's world, it is no longer just acceptable that a corporation does well by doing good. It is expected. With increasing pressures to improve the bottom line as well as to be good corporate citizens, business leaders face tough decisions. What social issues should we support? What charities will make strong partners? What initiatives should we develop that will do the most good for the company as well as the cause? Do we just write a check, incorporate social messages in our advertising,...

Dit Groot Woordenboek Papiaments-Nederlands gaat uit van voornamelijk hedendaags Papiaments zoals het gesproken en geschreven wordt op Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao. Het is gebaseerd op een groot ‘corpus’ van gesproken taal en van letterkundige en niet-letterkundige teksten. Door zijn praktische en functionele opzet en vormgeving is het ook zeer geschikt voor het onderwijs van het Papiaments en Nederlands aan moedertaalsprekers van het Papiaments en voor het onderwijs van het Papiaments aan ...

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Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students. This textbook emphasizes an important shift in conceptualization and directs it toward students with prior knowledge of optical remote sensing: the author dispels any linkage between microwave and optical remote sensing. Instead, he constructs the concept of microwave remote sensing by comparing it to the proces...

Building upon the scope of its predecessor, Dairy Science and Technology, Second Edition offers the latest information on the efficient transformation of milk into high-quality products. It focuses on the principles of physical, chemical, enzymatic, and microbial transformations. The authors, highly regarded educators and researchers, divide the content of this book into four parts.

Part I, Milk, discusses the chemistry, physics, and microbiology of milk. In addition to providing knowledge of...

Die Abhandlung »Sein und Zeit« erschien zuerst im Frühjahr 1927 in dem von Edmund Husserl herausgegebenen »Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung«, Band VIII, und gleichzeitig als Sonderdruck. Als eines der berühmtesten und wirkungsmächtigsten philosophischen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts ist es ein unverzichtbarer Quellentext für die Philosophie, übersetzt in über 25 Sprachen der Welt. Dreißig Jahre nach dem Tod Martin Heideggers (1889-1976) wird sein epochemac...

Location-based Services (LBSs) are mobile services for providing information that has been created, compiled, selected or filtered under consideration of the users' current locations or those of other persons or mobile devices. Typical examples are restaurant finders, buddy trackers, navigation services or applications in the areas of mobile marketing and mobile gaming. The attractiveness of LBSs is due to the fact that users are not required to enter location information manually but are aut...

Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek zijn de belangrijkste pijlers voor klinisch handelen. Dit boek biedt een gedetailleerde beschrijving van de methoden die de universiteiten van Utrecht en Gent gebruiken. In de tweede druk is een hoofdstuk over reptielen toegevoegd. De beschrijvingen zijn rijk geïllustreerd. De bijgevoegde cd-rom bevat bewegende beelden van uiteenlopende handelingen en PDF-bestanden met formulieren voor het vastleggen van de onderzoeksbevindingen. Sinds de introductie in 1990...

Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials, 2/e analyzes the behavior and properties of composite materials-rigid, high-strength, lightweight components that can be used in infrastructure, aircraft, automobiles, biomedical products, and a myriad of other goods. This edition features additional exercises and new material based on the author's research and advances in the field.