Soaring drug development costs, patent expiration, and reduction in the number of blockbuster drugs are driving pharma companies to look seriously at Information Technology (IT) enabled productivity. The pharma IT strategy must be strengthened to better support business needs. The traditional approach of “working for business” is evolving into a “working with business” model. Pharma IT processe...

Rationale. We sought to evaluate the impact of having an allergist at a food allergy support group (FASG) on the relationship between parents and their child's allergist. Methods. Ninety-eight online surveys were sent to parents who attend a FASG affiliated with our institution. Responses were analyzed looking for reasons for attending the support group and comfort with having an allergist pres...

The World Food Summit in 1996 provided a comprehensive definition for food security which brings into focus the linkage between food, nutrition and health. India has been self sufficient in food production since seventies and low household hunger rates. India compares well with developing countries with similar health profile in terms of infant mortality rate (IMR) and under five mortality rate...

The Battelle Arlington Federal Civilian Operations team developed a collaborative, electronic approach for Use-Case analysis that is innovative, customizable, and efficient. The team used meeting room software as the vehicle for collecting all the data for the requirements for a information system life cycle processes for the United States Coast Guard and for the Food and Drug Administration (F...

Over the centuries, application of grassland and cutting livestock have been primary foundations for production food agriculture manufacturing. Growing human population, accelerated activities globally, staggering inequity, changing climate, precise nutrition extended life expectancy, more demand protein call a new outlook to smartness in manufacturing delivering nutritious food. Cellular agric...

Supplying food for the anticipated global population of over 9 billion in 2050 under changing climate conditions is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Agricultural expansion and intensification contributes to global environmental change and risks the long-term sustainability of the planet. It has been proposed that no more than 15% of the global ice-free land surface should be con...

S 105 AOCS ANNUAL MEETING & EXPO MAY 4–7, 2014 1 PCP 1: Assessment of Protein Nutritional Quality: Digestibility and Bioavailability Chairs: E. Krul, Solae LLC, USA; N. Deak, Solae LLC, USA; and J. Wanasundara, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada Human Requirements for Protein and Amino Acids: How Much Do We Really Know? D.J. Millward, DJ Millward, Twickenham, Middlesex, UK. Although the ass...

The fields of immunology, microbiology, and nutrition converge in an astonishing way. Dietary ingredients have a profound effect on the composition of the gut microflora, which in turn regulates the physiology of metazoans. As such, nutritional components of the diet are of critical importance not only for meeting the nutrient requirements of the host, but also for the microbiome. During their ...