A new genus of bamboo culm tarantula from Thailand (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)

Bamboo plays an important role in the animal world, including providing a nutritious food source, shelter, and habitat. Inside of bamboo culm, we discovered a new genus of tarantula, which we describe here as Taksinusgen. nov. (♂♀). Specimens of this new tarantula were collected from Mae Tho, Mueang Tak district, Tak province, in Thailand, making it geographically distant from any other arboreal genera. Genital morphology was used to diagnose its genus, which is supported by distributional data, natural history, morphological characters, and photographic illustrations of the male and female. Diagnosis of the new genus was determined by distinguishing its different characters from those of other arboreal theraphosid spiders distributed throughout Southeast Asia. This tarantula’s specialization is that it lives in the stalks of the Asian bamboo Gigantochloa sp.

Relationship between Volleyball Sports Nutrition Food and Sports Athletes’ Training and Physical Health Based on Medical Image Recognition

As we all know, the dietary nutrition of athletes has a great influence on physical condition and exercise ability. A good diet pattern is the basis of a reasonable diet for athletes. It helps to improve the function and physical state of athletes. This article is aimed at studying the impact of nutritious food on athletes’ training and physical health. This article proposes the relevant technology of medical image recognition, which is used to study the relationship between nutritious food and the health of volleyball players and athletes, and proposes methods such as weighing method, meal review method, and measurement method, and the purpose is to exercise nutritional research and provide new ideas and methods. In addition, 200 female volleyball players were randomly selected for comparative analysis. The experimental results in this paper show that the energy intake and energy consumption of the female intervention group maintained a balance after the intervention, and there was a significant change in the negative balance state before the intervention. The energy consumption changed from − 158.2 ± 156.2 to − 157.2 ± 129.6 . The number of athletes whose weight is close to the ideal range has increased from 44.8% to 48.5%.

Assessing the Information Seeking Behavior of Urban Farmers to Design an Integrated Extension Model

Even though the urbanisation is considered as a development indicator, the tremendous migration from rural areas to urban areas leads to serious environmental, health and economic issues. Due to the space and time constraints, the urban entity used to depend on rural community for their food products. But in the same time, highly priced demand for land and the lesser profit from farming results in withdrawal of rural farmers from farming. And these above mentioned factors contributed to a gap in supply and demand for food. This gap leads to the non-availability of nutritious food and thereby, made difficult for urban dwellers to access it due the high price. And the result was seen as a double burden in the form of malnutrition and obesity among urban dwellers. The concept of Urban Farming can bring back the traditional homestead farming culture and more than that, a nutritionally secured and environmentally sustainable society. As most of the urban dwellers are new to this setup, they need information and assistance for bring it in a successful way. Hence, there is a necessity for understanding their information needs, and the sources currently they are depending. The present study focuses on the information seeking behaviour and its utilisation constraints experienced by the farmers in an urban community. The study was carried out in the period from December 2020 to March 2021 in Ernakulam and Calicut districts which ranks first and third in degree of urbanisation in Kerala respectively. From the findings of the study it is understood that, their information needs varies from the selection of nutritious food crop to marketing of surplus quantity produced. The constraints analysis could give suggestions for improvement and it can narrow down the gap between farmers - extension system. Based on this, an integrated urban farming extension model has been designed for the effective information dissemination to the farmers. This can save time of farmers and efforts of extension agents, and it will motivate them towards potential adoption of more technologies.

Necessary Parameters of Vertically Mounted Textile Substrates for Successful Cultivation of Cress for Low-Budget Vertical Farming

A growing population needs an expansion of agriculture to ensure a reliable supply of nutritious food. As a variable concept, vertical farming, becoming increasingly popular, can allow plant growth for local food produc¬tion in the vertical sense on, e.g. facades in addition to the classical layered structure in buildings. As substrates, textile fabrics can be used as a sustainable approach in terms of reusability. In our experiment, we investigated which properties a textile should possess in order to be suitable for an application in vertical farming by the example of cress seeds. To determine the best-fitted fabric, four different textiles were mounted vertically, and were provided with controlled irrigation and illumination. Our results showed that a hairy textile surface as provided by weft-knitted plush is advantageous. There, the rooting of cress plants used in this experiment is easier and less complicated than along tightly meshed, flat surfaces, as for woven linen fabrics.

Penanaman Hidroponik dan Olahannya Sebagai Pencegahan Berat Badan Kurang di Desa Cibitung Wetan, Pamijahan, Bogor

Trilogi University with the community ‘Kampung Ramah Lingkungan’ (KRL) Seroja Kahuripan have conducted underweight prevention services in Cibitung Wetan Village, Pamijahan, Bogor. This service activity aims to educate importance of nutritious food, train in creating greenhouses and hydroponic installations, cultivate vegetable crops and their processing to increase the food value as prevention of underweight. The method was carried out in several stages: 1) The preparation and coordination; 2) Implementation; and 3) monitoring and evaluation. Based on the data, it was known that 13,69% of children aged 0–23 months are observed with underweight with body weight far below the standard and 34,44% of children are approaching as underweight. Efforts to prevent underweight were carried out by strengthening the identity of partners, the construction of greenhouse and hydroponic installation as well as training in vegetable cultivation carried out by the team so that partners can be independent in providing nutritious food. The yields of vegetables and their processed products in form of nuggets and jerky have provided food value added increasement to partners. As a result, increasement in the number of partner members from 15 to 54 people, the formation of a group logo as identity reinforcement, the construction of greenhouse facilities and hydroponic installations series, increasement of partner’s knowledges and skills in hydroponic cultivation and crops processing, and increasement partner’s awareness of underweight issue. The results of partner’s satisfaction questionnaire showed that 85% were very satisfied with the program and they hoped for sustainable and further fostering.

Inovasi Olahan Lele oleh Kelompok Bunda Koja sebagai Strategi Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Area PT. Pertamina (Persero) Integrated Terminal Jakarta

Knowledge about food nutrition for toddlers and the ability to buy nutritious food are important factors in toddlers parenting. Kelurahan Rawa Badak Selatan (KRBS) is one of area in Koja Subdistrict, North Jakarta which dominated by toddlers whose nutritional status needs to be improved. CSR PT. Pertamina Integrated Terminal Jakarta carried out the Serba Unsur Lele (SULE) program as a community empowerment strategy by create various product innovations from catfish and catfish bone by-product. The aim of this activities is Bunda Koja community, including mothers of toddlers, are able to improve the knowledge and skills of catfish products processing and build a growing business, some products that routinely given to toddlers are expected to give a positive impact for toddler nutrition. This program consisted of training and the application of mentoring. The series of programs include training on catfish products innovation training, management of catfish production, and product marketing. The innovations been developed for production is nuggets, abon, and catfish stick. Catfish bones by- product are processed into crackers, tempe chips, and fish bone biscuits. Abon, nuggets, crackers and tempeh chips have been through the production and marketing stages. This activity succeeded in having a positive impact especially for mothers of toddlers, could receive the additional income from the catfish product business. The more catfish products innovation which will be developed is expected to become a business so that it can have a positive impact on the economy of the Bunda Koja community, mothers of toddlers, and the surrounding community.

Technology of using herbal ingredients for whey sauce

The study aims to provide high-quality and nutritious food products. The use of processed products of curd whey and herbal ingredients, in particular parsnips, in the development of recipe-component solutions for new structured products is advisable, since it enables not only to expand the range but also to combine the valuable nutrient composition and unique properties of these components, obtain a product of high nutritional and biological value. The authors have developed a resource-saving technology and investigated the qualitative composition of fermented milk sauce.