Works that report methods, original data and ideas, or results and analyses of planning activities and implementation strategies are given priority. The Information Service solicits, identifies, and collects documents, published or unpublished, which report new and significant findings pertaining to food and nutrition policy, planning, and programmes. Journal publication Nutrition Planning is published quarterly in February, May, August, and November. Nutrition Planning, beginning its second year of publication, has a circulation of nearly 1,000, about 60 per cent of which is in developing nations. In 1978, over 600 requests for documents were processed, and this number has nearly doubled through early 1979.
Many regular users are government planning units and university libraries in developing nations.
Depending on the number and length of papers, a special publication of abstracts can be published and distributed within three to six months of the conference. Dr. Ramesh Bijlani, UNU Fellow in the International Food and Nutrition Policy Programme of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, has been awarded the Dev Raj Bajaj Award for Innovation in Physiological Techniques for the year 1978 by the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India. If the area is constant, pressure is directly proportional to the force. A compressible surface with a relatively constant area is provided by a partially inflated rubber bladder taken from a sphygmomanometer. The bladder is placed between two rectangular wooden slabs.