S. Radha Devi

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This book provides largely the principles, facts, findings and theories deliberately leaving out the details of the actual experiments. The sixteen chapters given in the book covers different aspects of immunology, beginning with an introduction about the immune system. In the introductory chapter elementary ideas about innate immunity, cell types of innate system, adaptive immunity, humoral immune response, organs and functions of immune system are dealt in a very comprehensive manner. The second chapter vividly covers the details on antigens, requirements for immunogenicity, contributions of biological system to immunogenicity, adjuvants, epitopes, haptens and superantigens. Immunoglobulins, their structural and functional basis of antibody diversity are the main theme of expression in chapter 3. Chapter 4 illustrates the various antigen- antibody interactions and the methods to determine them in a lucid manner. Topics like tolerance, hypersensitivity, transplantation and immuno- suppression have also been explained.

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Rohini Tiwari ¹, C. Yegammai ¹, S. Radha Devi ¹

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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641043, IN

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Adolescence is a time o f many transitions for tine children in terms of physical growth, psychological development and emotional maturity. Nutrition during adolescence is one of the vital aspects as adolescence comprises the second and lost growth spurt period and adolescents are susceptible to develop faulty eating behaviour leading to malnutrition. Currently, the total population of adolescents between the age of 10 and 19 years is 1.2 billion i.e, one in every five people in the world today, the largest generation of young people in history.

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* Food Preservation: Principles and Practices.

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C. Padmavathy ¹, S. Radha Devi ², P. V. Ayesha ¹

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1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingham Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore-641043, IN
2 Avinashilingham Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore-641043, IN

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Hypertension is regarded as a major public health problem worldwide. The World Health Report identifies blood pressure as one of the five important risk factors for non communicable disease worldwide. Average prevalence in India is 25 per cent in urban and 10 per cent in rural populations. Changing lifestyle factors has documented efficacy in the primary prevention and control of hypertension.

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* Research and Writing-Across the Disciplines.

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C. A. Kalpana ¹, U. K. Lakshmi ¹, S. Radha Devi ¹

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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore - 641043, IN

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The major nutrition issues among children and adolescents have shifted from nutrient deficiency diseases, common in the first half of the 20th century, to concerns today about over consumption, poor dietary quality and poor food choices. Among the nutritional problems, obesity is now reaching epidemic proportions in both developed and developing countries and is affecting not only adults but also children and adolescents.

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C. Yegammai ¹, S. Radha Devi ¹, N. M. Taara ¹

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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

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Hypercholesterolemia is a disorder of lipoprotein metabolism characterized by high serum concentration of Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. There are two strategies for prevention viz.. primary prevention and secondary prevention. Primary prevention involves clinical management including diet, exercise and other lifestyle changes that will lower the risk of Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVD)in patients who have no evidence of CVD but who have risk factors. Secondary prevention is the treatment of hypercholesterolemia in patients who already have CVD.

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* Food Science.

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Anu Joseph ¹, Rashmi H. Poojara ¹, S. Kowsalya ², S. Radha Devi ²

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1 St.Teresa's College, Ernakulam, Kerala, IN
2 Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore-641 043, IN

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During the past few decades, the prevalence of obesity has grown to epidemic proportions and this condition is now known to be a major contributor to the global burden of disease. World Health Organisation's (WHO) latest projections indicated that globally in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion adults (age 15+) were overweight and at least 400 million adults were obese. WHO further projects that by 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.

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* Trans Fatty Acids.

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* Mineral Components in Foods.

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S. Radha Devi , P. R. Padma

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* Good Clinical Diagnostic Practice - WHO Regional Publications Eastern Mediterranean Series - 27.

* Nutrtion and Fitness: Obesity, The Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.

 

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* Malaria Control in Complex Emergencies-An Inter-Agency Field Handbook.

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* Sensory Discrimination Tests and Measurements, Statistical Principles, Procedures and Tables.

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* Growing the Sheltering Tree - Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action : Programmes and Practices from the Field.

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* Enterobactor Sakazakii and other Microorganisms in Powdered Infant Formula-Meeting Report.

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* Risk Assessment of <I>Listeria</I> Monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods-Technical Report

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* Bulletin on Food Statistics-1996 and 1997.

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* Agricultural Wages in India 1995-96 and 1996-97.

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Usha Chandrasekhar ¹, S. Radha Devi ¹, R. Latha ¹

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1 Dept. of Foods & Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore 641 043, IN

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One of the considerable problems of public health throughout the world especially in developing countries is anaemia. The incidence of anaemia in developing countries is high when compared to that of industrialised parts of the world.

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S. Radha Devi

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Strategy for crop production, through multiple cropping, characterized by the practice of growing several crops on the same piece of land, is an ancient one, in humid tropics. The book summarizes the new production technologies derived from results of research in multiple cropping in Asia in 1970s, through four main sections, Part I dealing with Production Technology, Part II dealing with Research Methodology, Part III dealing with Technology Verification and Dissemination: the Phillippine experince and Part IV dealing with conclusions on the deal three parts.

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