ACCESS TO NUTRITION INDEX GLOBAL INDEX 2013 Acknowledgements FUNDERS The Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) would not have been possible without the generous support of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)‚ the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. ATNI was developed by GAIN’s Innovative Finance Program. Led by Chris Walker‚ the ATNI development team consisted of Michael Park and Valerie Pillonel‚ along with external consultants Craig Courtney‚ Rachel Crossley‚ and
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Folic Acid is a B vitamin‚ specifically B9. It is an essential nutrient required by the body to create healthy new cells. While we hear about it mostly in regards to pregnancy‚ it is important to understand that the need for folic acid goes even beyond this. Folic acid is essential for the body to create red blood cells which in turn prevents anemia. It is also plays an important role in the metabolism of homocysteine‚ an amino acid. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for all men and women
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What is Soap? Soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. fat + NaOH ---> glycerol + sodium salt of fatty acid CH2-OOC-R - CH-OOC-R - CH2-OOC-R (fat) + 3 NaOH ( or KOH) both heated ---> CH2-OH -CH-OH - CH2-OH (glycerol) + 3 R-CO2-Na (soap) R=(CH2)14CH3 Soap is a cleansing agent created by the chemical reaction
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Marketing Strategies – Midterm 1. The five types of customer needs are: Stated needs‚ Real needs‚ Unstated needs‚ Delight needs and Secret needs. Define each and give an example for each. Stated needs are wants that are expressed by the customer while shopping for a product or service. An example of a stated need is when a customer wants to buy a two-bedroom condo. Real needs are the underlying needs of those that are stated. In the case of the customer that wants to buy a two-bedroom
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Stop Wasting Food Remember what our grandmas always used to tell us: Do not waste food; think of all the hungry children in Africa. At my recent TEDx talk‚ I mentioned that global food waste could feed every starving child‚ man and woman on this planet – three times over in fact! Here is some food for thought: A global shame Globally‚ human beings produce enough food waste to feed 3 billion people: over 30% of the world’s food supply is wasted. The annual food waste in Italy could feed
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------------------------------------------------- History of money The history of money spans thousands of years. Numismatics is the scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms. Many items have been used as commodity money such as natural scarce precious metals‚ cowry shells‚ barley‚ beads etc.‚ as well as many other things that are thought of as having value. Modern money (and most ancient money) is essentially a token — in other words‚ an abstraction. Paper currency is
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Optronics AUDI AUSTRALIA POST Autodesk AUTOLIV AUTOZONE AVIVA AVNET AXA GROUP AZIMUT BENETTI BACARDI LIMITED BAJAJ AUTO LIMITED Baker Hughes BAKERDONELSON BALFOUR BEATTY Banco Santander BANG & OLUFSEN BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (BAC) Baosteel BARCLAYS BARILLA BARNES&NOBLE BARRYCALLEBAUT BARY BAUSCH & LOMB BAXTER BECHTEL BEELINE BEIERSDORF AG BELK Bell Equipment BELO CORPORATION 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126
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TITLE: CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Table of Content Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Effective Distribution Networks 4 Effective Network Design 5 Effective Global Supply Chain Networks 5 Planned Demand and Supply 7 Managed Uncertainty (Safety Inventories) 7 Optimal Product Availability 7 Designed and Planned Transportation
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1 Introducing logistics 1.1 Definition of logistics According to a widespread definition‚ logistics (from the Greek term l´ gos‚ which o means ‘order’‚ or from the French loger‚ which means ‘allocate’) is the discipline that studies the functional activities determining the flow of materials (and of the relative information) in a company‚ from their origin at the suppliers up to delivery of the finished products to the customers and to the post-sales service. The origins of logistics
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Meeting the Demand for a Best-in-Class Supply Chain Team October 2012 Supply chain’s long-standing image problem has at times masked the true importance of the function. Those who oversimplified the function as merely a means to transport products and parts from point A to point B often overlooked its strategic significance. As organizations today have become more complex and global‚ supply chain management has been charged with keeping pace. From R&D and product innovation to M&A and customer
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