Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain

Approximately one third of the food produced is discarded or lost, which accounts for 1.3 billion tons per annum. The waste is being generated throughout the supply chain viz. farmers, wholesalers/processors, logistics, retailers and consumers. The majority of waste occurs at the interface of retailers and consumers. Many global retailers are making efforts to extract intelligence from customer’s complaints left at retail store to backtrack their supply chain to mitigate the waste. However, majority of the customers don’t leave the complaints in the store because of various reasons like inconvenience, lack of time, distance, ignorance etc. In current digital world, consumers are active on social media and express their sentiments, thoughts, and opinions about a particular product freely. For example, on an average, 45,000 tweets are tweeted daily related to beef products to express their likes and dislikes. These tweets are large in volume, scattered and unstructured in nature. In this study, twitter data is utilised to develop waste minimization strategies by backtracking the supply chain. The execution process of proposed framework is demonstrated for beef supply chain. The proposed model is generic enough and can be applied to other domains as well

Cuba: Reading and Revolution-Cuban Literature and Literary Culture

Examines postcolonial literature and literary culture in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, attending to what reading means and the importance of local literary marketplaces in postcolonial and neocolonial culture. Drawing on spatial theory, Ramone explores the representation of reading, both spaces and places, found in post-Revolutionary Cuban literature, including Leonardo Padura\u27s 2005 crime novel, Adios, Hemingway, in which Hemingway is a murder suspect. Analyzes Padura\u27s use of Hemingway\u27s public persona and repetition, including repeated reading of Big Two-Hearted River, to emphasize Hemingway the writer over Hemingway the celebrity. Ramone concludes that such focus on a more authentic version of Hemingway in turn draws attention to the dual representation of Cuba, and its changing relationship with global trade and tourism

Instrumental Food Analysis

The instrumental analysis of foods is an important step in food processing and manufacturing companies because of the presence and interactions of various compounds in foods during storage and processing. While traditional methods are still used, most analysis involves the use of different instruments. This chapter is structured to provide a description of the information each technique can provide, a simple explanation of how it works and examples of its application, and facilitates comparison of techniques. The focus of this chapter is on spectroscopic, chromatographic and electrophoretic methods, including specific examples of instruments such as capillary electrophoresis, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), atomic absorption, emission and inductively coupled plasma, fluorescence spectroscopies, gel electrophoresis, etc., among many others. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015