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Obesity: Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge (Human Development Perspectives)
by Meera Shekar • Barry PopkinObesity is a global ticking time bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. As of 2016, an estimated 44 percent of adults (more than two billion) worldwide are overweight or obese, and over 70 percent of them live in low- or middle-income countries, dispe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)
The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade. Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue, requiring a broad and inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This Handbook represents the most comprehensi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?
Action against malnutrition is needed more than ever. An additional US$10.3 billion a year is required from national and international public resources to successfully attack undernutrition worldwide. This would benefit more than 360 million children in the 36 countries with the highest burden of un... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Design and Cryptanalysis of ZUC: A Stream Cipher in Mobile Telephony (SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks)
This book is a timely document of state-of-the art analytical techniques in the domain of stream cipher design and analysis with a specific cipher, named ZUC. It links new research to brief contextual literature review in the domain of complex LFSR-based stream ciphers. A snapshot of how stream ciph... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Higher Education in India: A Data Compendium
This volume puts together the latest available information on higher education in India at a single location. While higher education is an extremely dynamic segment in India’s education sector, yet a host of issues related to a lack of a good and comprehensive monitoring system have prevented the re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020