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BackgroundPakistan faces a growing burden of adolescent overweight, early-onset diabetes, and one of the world’s highest adult diabetes prevalence rates. Yet, nationally representative data on adolescents’ sugar-swee...

Background The associations between sugary beverages and genetic predisposition to depression risk remain unclear.Aims This study aimed to investigate the associations of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), artificially sw...

Após longos estudos, com o objetivo de analisar o impacto da filosofia LEAN no desenvolvimento, seguimento e implementaçò dos conceitos associados à aplicaçò das Estratégias de Investigaçò nas ciências de Marke...

Consumption is the activity of using goods and services to meet the needs and desires of individuals or households. This study aims to analyze the effect of Gross Domestic Product, population size, minimum wage, and infl...

Abstract In this paper, the novel Adaptive Modulation and Code (AMC) algorithm aims to reduce energy consumption in elastic optical network is developed. The proposed AMC algorithm adaptively allocates both, the appropri...

Although increasing green consumption plays a critical role in solving today's environmental problems, a significant problem remains the insufficient clarification of the relative importance of the psychological factors ...

This paper analyzes the energy consumption during the period 2001?2006 of 192 flats distributed in three-storey buildings, in order to understand how current policies related to energy use could be improved for increased...

ObjectiveTo understand the status of sugar-sweetened beverage （SSB） consumption among children and adolescents aged 6-17 years in 2 provinces of northeast China and discuss the influencing factors.MethodsMulti-stage ...

ObjectiveTo initially understand the current status of awareness and consumption behavior of prepared dish consumers， and to provide data support for the food safety risk assessment of prepared dishes.MethodsA question...

One of the main problems for health service around the world is the antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Objective: to describe the antimicrobial consumption (AMC) at hospital level in Latin American countries and compare the...

BackgroundEvidence regarding the association between meat consumption and cancer mortality remains inconsistent. Most previous studies have focused on total or red meat intake and cancer incidence, with limited data on c...

Objetivo: verificar o consumo de bebida alcoólica durante a gravidez, quanto ao tipo, quantidade ingerida, ao conhecimento dos riscos do consumo e seu rastreamento durante a assistência pré-natal. Método: foram entre...

In this article, the main objective is the comparative analysis of Romania and its neighboring countries regarding the final energy consumption by product indicator. By analyzing this indicator in dynamics, the main go...

The main goal of the paper is to investigate relation between economic development and energy consumption in Croatia. This paper examines the casual relationship, using Granger test, between gross domestic products (GDP)...

This article analyzes the determinants of consumers’ purchase and consumption of geographical indication (GI) agricultural products through a ten-year systematic review. There exist growing concerns about food safety, ...

The paper focuses on the analysis of meat consumption patterns and the level and structure of consumption of individual types of meat, on segmenting consumers according to consumption patterns and determining the key fac...

OBJETIVO: avaliar o consumo de cafeína em gestantes e sua associação com variáveis demográficas, socioeconômicas, reprodutivas e comportamentais e com o estado nutricional materno. MÉTODOS: trata-se de estudo do t...

The aim of the paper is to study the cultural differentiation in the European Union countries and compare it with the differentiation in their consumption spending. The question is whether similar countries in terms of c...

This paper addresses the dynamics of world wine consumption over the past 50 years in 26 countries, verifying whether or not there is a macro-tendency towards a common consumption style, despite differences in taxation, ...

Abstract This study aimed to determine the suitable point of sale and consumption of different quality grade (QG) Hanwoo short loin during aging period, based on physicochemical, sensory, and microbiological quality. Sho...

Increasing climate risks may influence the behavioral decisions of microeconomic entities, including household consumption choices. Based on the data of the China Household Finance Survey in 2019, this study empirically ...

Abstract Mechanical agitation in baffled vessels with turbines plays a vital role in achieving homogeneous fluid mixing and promoting various transfer operations. Therefore, designing vessels with optimal energy efficien...

This study aims to resolve the inconsistency in empirical literature on the nexus between financial development (FD) and renewable energy consumption (REC) by testing the hypothesis that human capital (HC) plays a crucia...

The tristirid Bufonacris claraziana (Saussure, 1884), an endemic grasshopper of Argentinian Patagonia, is considered a pest species. The last registered outbreaks were in different areas of Santa Cruz, Chubut, and Rio Ne...