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It covers development and improvement of food products in terms of nutritional value, sensory acceptability, packaging and shelf-life with economic returns from domestic and export markets; process feasibility studies; composition of foods including nutrients, microbial pathogens, chemical toxins, contaminants and other deleterious factors in foods; maintenance of a reference and testing laboratory for food analysis and analytical quality assurance systems; food and nutritional management in homes and institutions; development of food guides and tools for dietary management; and design and testing of food management systems/models.

Nutrition Science and Technology Includes:

Medical Nutrition Studies - to define the malnutrition and nutrition-related diseases and their physical and functional effects; develop and update methods of diagnosis and treatment for their prevention and control; establish and update the Philippine anthropometric clinical standards; and develop tools and methods for use in assessing nutritional status.

Nutrition Intervention and Policy Studies - to develop and evaluate models, systems, delivery schemes, strategies, and guidelines for nutrition intervention.

Nutritional Biochemical Studies - to establish normal nutrient levels and enzyme activities for Filipinos to derive nutrient requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy and lactation; and determine nutrient bioavailability and interrelationships of foods or food components in diets.

Nutritional Anthropology and Education Studies - to develop and evaluate nutrition education tools, channels and strategies to effect behavioral changes among various population groups.

Nutrition Information Dissemination and Technology Transfer

Deals with nutrition information dissemination activities, such as organization of press conferences, scientific sessions/seminars; establishment of media contacts through the Nutrition Communication Network (NUTRICOMNET); development and production of nutrition information education and communication materials; provision of services for information acquisition, packaging, documentation, and retrieval; establishment of information networking, linkages and resource-sharing through the Nutrition Information Network (NUTRINET); provision of reference/circulation/readers' services for in-house and outside users, as well as literature search on local and international databases; conduct of technology transfers activities such as lectures/demonstrations and exhibits.

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MANILA, Philippines – Jose Salonga, an indigenous leader , described his community’s diet: a mix of rice, vegetables, root crops, and the odd piece of wild boar’s meat, depending on what’s available.  (READ: Indigenous vegetables and the Filipino diet )

Compared to those in urban areas, residents in rural places like Barangay Kanawan in Morong, Bataan, tend to eat more starches, cereals, and vegetables.  (READ: What are the top 20 food products consumed by Filipinos? )

However, many of them still go hungry. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) wants to change that.  

The FNRI and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) think they can kickstart the solution using technology – a website to give nutrition information a wider reach.

FNRI Director Mario Capanzana said that launching a website, dubbed iFNRI , brings the government is one step closer to making food and nutritional data available to all. This includes everything from the nutritional content of food items to the institute’s updated national surveys.  

Monitoring and tailoring  

But what does this mean for people like Salonga?  

Capanzana used the banana as an example. He said such information would make it easier to tell how healthy or unhealthy the banana, or any kind of food, is.  

“If they have Internet access or know how to use the Internet, they can easily log in and see how much nutrients are present in a banana,” he explained in a mix of English and Filipino.  

The implications of an information and communications technology approach go beyond looking up the nutritional value of a banana, according to Capanzana.  

Online health advice from FNRI allows households, schools, and local health centers to monitor body mass index and other vital signs to decide on how to tailor diet and exercise to each person’s needs.  

A teacher or mother anywhere with Internet access can input their students’ or children’s height and weight to see if they are overweight, underweight, or normal, before planning a regimen to address health concerns, with FNRI’s online counseling.

Although iFNRI’s audience is broad, Capanzana said schools would be the biggest beneficiaries because of the module on recipe development, which calculates the nutrient content and price of dishes.  

Child malnutrition rates in the Philippines have remained virtually unchanged.  Overweight children are common in urban areas while underweight, stunted, and wasted children are prevalent in rural communities.

Moving forward

While it is easy to get excited about the new technology, Capanzana admitted the website has limitations, primarily reliable Internet connection, and access, in rural areas.  

“We need to come up with high-speed Internet access. Hindi naman high ang speed, but enable ma-load yung [website] (The speed does not necessarily have to be really high, just enough for the website to load),” Capanzana added.  

As a whole, the Philippines’ Internet download speed is below the global average at 3.7 megabits per second (mbps) compared to the 24.2 mbps average global internet speed.  

In 2015, the National Telecommunications Commission signed a memorandum stating that “broadband” services must be 256 kilobits per second.  

Not all hope is lost for rural communities.  

“What’s important is there’s already a platform they can access,” Capanzana said. He added that the next step is “to reach out to areas where there is limited access to the Internet.”

Improving the country’s Internet is already in the DOST’s plans, according to Capanzana.

He expressed optimism about the future of the project. “Well, the DOST is looking at making Internet available in selected public areas and even rural areas. So through the project it will make the internet accessible for everyone, even in the rural areas maybe that’s the next program that needs to be enhanced, but in anticipation of that here we are, we have the platform.” – Rappler.com

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However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

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Intensification of evaporation of uranium hexafluoride

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• A. M. Belyntsev 1 ,
• G. S. Sergeev 2 ,
• O. B. Gromov 2 ,
• A. A. Bychkov 1 ,
• A. V. Ivanov 2 ,
• S. I. Kamordin 3 ,
• P. I. Mikheev 4 ,
• V. I. Nikonov 2 ,
• I. V. Petrov 1 ,
• V. A. Seredenko 2 ,
• S. P. Starovoitov 1 ,
• S. A. Fomin 1 ,
• V. G. Frolov 1 &
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The theoretical mechanism of the sublimation of uranium hexafluoride are considered. The most contribution to the rate of evaporation of UF 6 is introduced by the conductive mode of heat exchange. Various modes of the intensification of the evaporation of uranium hexafluoride during the nitrogen supply in pulse mode to the product mass are investigated. The nitrogen supply results in the turbulization of gas flow within a vessel (Re = 2500–4000) and significantly increases the rate of evaporation of uranium hexafluoride with the substantial decrease in a weight of the nonevaporable residue of 5.6–1.0 kg. The complex application of the pulse nitrogen supply in combination with heating the bottom of the vessel is the most effective method for evaporating uranium hexafluoride. The rate of evaporation of UF6 increases by a factor of almost four in comparison with the design mode. The developed methods are applied in industry and provide the stable operation of Saturn reactors during the conversion of uranium hexafluoride into its dioxide.

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