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Mpala Research Centre is a Kenyan NGO that facilitates human-wildlife coexistence and improves human livelihoods through education, outreach, and science-based conservation research. It hosts over 100 researchers annually from over 40 institutions who conduct ecological and economic studies. Mpala provides knowledge to local communities about wildlife populations, land and ranch management, emerging diseases, invasive species control, and environmental conditions to support sustainable land use. The research also provides economic benefits to over 80 local businesses and $2.25 million to the local economy each year.
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With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
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