Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is the most important cause of death for children under five years in developing countries. ARI includes chest infections, coughs and colds, and middle-ear infections, but excludes asthma. The most serious type of ARI is acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI), most of which (in developing countries) is due to pneumonia. ALRI is believed to account for about 2...

Lentils, a popular foodstuff worldwide, are gaining more interest for their use in alternative diets. In addition, we observing an ever-growing demand new raw materials the malting and brewing industry overall rising low-gluten lifestyle. Therefore, this study, malt was produced from green lentils used both laboratory- pilot-scale trials. Malted were as 10% 20% adjuncts at laboratory scale, fol...

As a result of recent developments, global economic centre of gravity has slide to Asia-Pacific region. It is predicted that Asia-Pacific countries will take place at the first row in global trade and nearly a half of the total trade will intensify in this region at the year 2030. On the other hand, the region covers countries from different levels of development. These features of the region p...

Scotland’s health, when compared to other Western European countries is relatively poor. As judged by life expectancy at birth, only Portugal has a lower life expectancy for males and there are no Western European countries whose females have a lower life expectancy. Figure 1 shows the trend in male life expectancy during the 20 century in Scotland and in 16 other Western European countries. It...