1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145960803321

Titolo

Nutraceuticals, glycemic health and type 2 diabetes [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Vijai K. Pasupuleti, James W. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell/IFT Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-03147-3

9786612031472

0-8138-0414-0

0-8138-0428-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (510 p.)

Collana

IFT Press series

Altri autori (Persone)

PasupuletiVijai K

AndersonJames W

Disciplina

616.4/620654

616.4620654

Soggetti

Diabetes - Diet therapy

Diabetes - Prevention

Functional foods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-478) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nutraceuticals and diabetes prevention and management / James W. Anderson and Vijai K. Pasupuleti -- Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes / Karen Chapman-Novakofski -- Preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus / Frank Greenway -- Glycemic index and glycemic load: effects on glucose, insulin, and lipid regulation / Julia M.W. Wong ... [et al.] -- Glycemia: health implications / L. Raymond Reynolds -- Glycemic health, type 2 diabetes, and functional foods / Kaye Foster-Powell, Alan Barclay, and Jennie Brand-Miller -- Dietary fiber and associated phytochemicals in prevention and reversal of diabetes / James W. Anderson -- Cinnamon, glucose, and insulin sensitivity / Richard A. Anderson and Anne-Marie Roussel -- Soybean and soy component effects on obesity and diabetes / James W. Anderson and Vijai K. Pasupuleti --

Minerals and insulin health / Philip Domenico and James R. Komorowski -- Targeting oxidant stress as a strategy for preventing vascular



complications of diabetes and metabolic syndrome / Mark F. McCarty and Toyoshi Inoguchi -- Ginseng in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a review of the evidence in humans / John L. Sievenpiper ... [et al.] -- Traditional Chinese medicine in the management and treatment of the symptoms of diabetes / Azadeh Lankarani-Fard and Zhaoping Li --

Fenugreek and traditional antidiabetic herbs of Indian origin / Krishnapura Srinivasan -- Nopal (Opuntia spp.) and other traditional Mexican plants / Rosalia Reynoso-Camacho and Elvira González de Mejía -- Natural resistant starch in glycemic management: from physiological mechanisms to consumer communications / Rhonda S. Witwer -- Proteins, protein hydrolysates, and bioactive peptides in the management of type 2 diabetes / Joris Kloek, Vijai K. Pasupuleti, and Luc J.C. van Loon -- Future trends and directions / James W. Anderson and Vijai K. Pasupuleti.

Sommario/riassunto

Type 2 diabetes is a growing problem for the developed and developing countries and it is a burden on healthcare systems as well as individuals. Nutraceuticals, Glycemic Health and Type 2 Diabetes primarily focuses on the nutraceuticals that assist in preventing and managing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The book gives an overview of glycemic health and highlights the use of novel and upcoming nutraceutical ingredients such as bioactive peptides, traditional herbs from China, India and Mexico, resistant starches, cinnamon, chromium and others. After the successful commercial applicat



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466266103316

Titolo

Selected Topics in Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking [[electronic resource] ] : 4th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-36727-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 209 p. 70 illus.)

Collana

Programming and Software Engineering ; ; 7755

Disciplina

005.74/5

Soggetti

Computer system failures

Database management

Software engineering

Application software

System Performance and Evaluation

Database Management

Software Engineering

Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Nota di contenuto

TPC Benchmark Roadmap 2012 -- Incorporating Recovery from Failures into a Data Integration Benchmark -- Two Firsts for the TPC: A Benchmark to Characterize Databases Virtualized in the Cloud, and a Publicly-Available, Complete End-to-End Reference Kit -- Adding a Temporal Dimension to the TPC-H Benchmark -- Performance Per Watt - Benchmarking Ways to Get More for Less -- Revisiting ETL Benchmarking: The Case for Hybrid Flows -- MulTe: A Multi-Tenancy Database Benchmark Framework -- BDMS Performance Evaluation: Practices, Pitfalls, and Possibilities -- Data Historians in the Data Management Landscape -- Scalable Generation of Synthetic GPS Traces with Real-Life Data Characteristics -- S3G2: A Scalable Structure-Correlated Social Graph Generator -- Benchmarking in the Cloud: What It Should, Can, and Cannot Be -- Characterizing Cloud Performance



with TPC Benchmarks -- Setting the Direction for Big Data Benchmark Standards.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2012, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2012. It contains 10 selected peer-reviewed papers, 2 invited talks, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee, and a report from the workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2012. The papers present novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization.