BACKGROUND Recent commentary on the health consequences of natural disasters has suggested a dearth of research on understanding the antecedents prior to the disaster that are associated with health consequences after the disaster. Utilizing data from a two-wave panel survey of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, conducted just prior to and six weeks after the January 2010 earthquake, we test factors prior ...

Food security in developing countries depends in part on the sustainable use of natural resources. Food security is usually examined through three dimensions, namely the availability, access, and utilization of food. Ecosystems directly and indirectly support each of these dimensions through the provision of critical ecosystem services that facilitate agricultural production, create income-gene...

Vietnam is a country that produces variety of agricultural products, including vegetables, tubers, fruits, and processed products. Along with the increase in population, demand for consumers also increases, by-products farming are increasing being discharged into environment. This one critical research issues need to be solved ensure sustainability agriculture. review summarized recent studies ...

As part of a growing health and wellness trend, food and beverage manufacturers are boosting the protein content of products. Many food and beverage manufacturers use whey proteins as the protein source of choice for product innovation. Expanded utilization of these ingredients holds great potential for creating even more new formulation possibilities through improvements in whey quality and pe...

We consider the passivity analysis and passivation problems for event-triggered feedback interconnected systems. Based on the location of the event-triggered samplers, we consider two event-triggered control schemes respectively: event-triggered sampler of plant output and event-triggered sampler of controller output. For both schemes, we first derive the conditions to characterize the level of...