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... Microplastics in food are receiving increasing attention because they are directly ingested by humans and pose a health threat. However, little attention has been paid to the microplastics resulting from the disposable drink cups. Here, we analyzed the microplastic contamination in beverages in three commonly used plastic cups (PP, PET, and PE cups). Effects of the cup materials, the residence tim ...
people, etc ; dust; particulates; smoke; transmittance; wind; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Electric agglomeration technology is effective in removing particulate matter from the environment and has been widely used in the field of dust removal. For the first time, this technology is applied to the field of fire smoke removal at lab scale. By varying applied electric potential and initial concentration of smoke, the removal characteristics and mechanisms during the electric agglomeration ...
people, etc ; air; air pollution; air quality; decline; particulates; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A growing number of studies have shown that impaired visibility caused by particulate matter pollution influences emotional wellbeing. However, evidence is still scant on how this effect varies across individuals and over repetitive visual exposure in a controlled environment. Herein, we designed a lab-based experiment (41 subjects, 6 blocks) where participants were presented with real-scene image ...
people, etc ; candy; food quality; peanut butter; portion size; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Eating candy is pleasurable. Yet, eating candy in large quantities is not recommended. Manufacturers have consistently produced small portion sizes of a variety of candy. While consuming small versus large portion sizes is healthier, do people experience the same amount of pleasure from eating a small portion and does it matter how it is eaten? In a pre-registered study, we examined how candy port ...
people, etc ; diet; fertilizers; models; phosphates; phosphorus; pollution; wastes; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Recycling phosphorus (P) from waste is an effective way to alleviate resource and environmental pollution due to excessive phosphate consumption. In order to better understand the feedback of P cycle to waste recycling methods, a P waste feedback model was built and was then used to predict P waste generation, recycling, loss and phosphate consumption in China under several P management scenarios. ...
people, etc ; food quality; healthy diet; issues and policy; models; traditional foods; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Traditional foods are often perceived to be high in fat and energy-dense and therefore individuals that aim to adopt a healthy diet could be discouraged to consume them. To date, consumer research investigating the interlink of healthy and traditional eating attitudes is lacking. We conducted a cross-country study with a total sample of 5928 consumers from 10 countries worldwide and used the Theor ...
people, etc ; El Nino; atmospheric precipitation; basins; drought; environment; runoff; soil water; watersheds; Mekong River; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Drought may lead to severe and diverse impacts on agriculture, economy, and society across different regions and periods, posing predictive and adaptive challenges. In recent years, severe droughts have affected >60 million people in the Mekong River Basin (MRB). Additionally, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes had distinct influences on the occurrence and intensity of drought variabilit ...
people, etc ; Tulipa; beers; color; experimental design; food quality; glass; willingness to pay; United Kingdom; Show all 9 Subjects
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... We evaluated how beer colour and glass type interact when it comes to forming beer expectations. Following previous research, we predicted that, given that colour is a dominant feature in food and beverage expectations, it would modulate the effects of glass type on beer expectations. One hundred and ninety-five participants from the United Kingdom took part in the experiment, which followed a 6 × ...
people, etc ; agricultural industry; air quality; data collection; environment; meteorological data; models; prediction; rain; regression analysis; temperature; Pakistan; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Variations in rainfall negatively affect crop productivity and impose severe climatic conditions in developing regions. Studies that focus on climatic variations such as variability in rainfall and temperature are vital, particularly in predominant rainfed areas. Forecasting rainfall is very essential in the agriculture sector due to the dependence of many people, while it is very complex to accur ...
people, etc ; Internet; affordability; biomarkers; electrochemistry; health status; microfluidic technology; mobile telephones; point-of-care systems; supply balance; telemedicine; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Internet of Wearable Things (IoWT) will be a major breakthrough for remote medical monitoring. In this scenario, wearable biomarker sensors have been developing not only to diagnose point-of-care (POC) of diseases, but also to continuously manage them. On-body tracking of biomarkers in biofluids is regarded as a proper substitution of conventional biomarker sensors for dynamic sampling and analyzi ...
... In response to health, environmental, ethical, and cost concerns, growing numbers of individuals are reducing their meat consumption. However, while people are now subscribing to “flexitarian” or reduced-meat diets, these flexitarian and more “traditional” omnivore diets are usually not well defined. Using an online survey, this research examined the attitudinal and behavioral differences between ...
people, etc ; COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; capital; ecological footprint; environment; gross domestic product; social capital; storms; vaccination; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The Covid-19 crisis has caused several social-related issues; the sanitary is, perhaps, the most significant one. Lockdowns and vaccination were implemented to fight the Covid-19 virus. From a sustainability perspective, Covid-19 has been considered a meaningful crisis driver that has affected nations' economies and social and natural capitals. The literature presents clues that effects appear to ...
people, etc ; color; computer vision; data collection; electronic circuits; infrastructure; irrigated farming; irrigation rates; irrigation systems; memory; raspberries; satellites; water flow; water shortages; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Agricultural irrigation wastage, especially from inefficient infrastructure in developing nations, is among the leading causes of the global water shortage epidemic, which affects an estimated 2.8 billion people worldwide. In this project, a three-component cloudless internet-of-things (IoT)-based irrigation network is designed and constructed to affordably integrate into existing irrigation infra ...
... During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) attracted attention as an objective and comprehensive indicator of community infection that does not require individual inspection. Although several severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) detection methods from wastewater have been developed, there are obstacles to their social implem ...
people, etc ; altitude; aspartate transaminase; body mass index; cigarettes; clinical examination; creatine kinase; exposure duration; females; heart rate; hematocrit; hemoglobin; isozymes; lactate dehydrogenase; males; oxygen; regression analysis; risk factors; Show all 18 Subjects
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... Myocardial injury (MI) is a severe complication once subjected to hypoxic condition at high altitude. Little evidence exists about the association of cigarettes and MI at high altitude, especially over 5000 m. In the present study, we intend to explore the influence of cigarettes on MI in healthy population after travelling to this extreme environment. Physical examination was performed in populat ...
... The health risk and burden of disease induced by exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) through drinking water and foodstuffs in Iran were assessed. The iAs levels in drinking water and foodstuffs (15 food groups) in the country were determined through systematic review of three international databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) and meta-analysis. Based on the results of the systematic revi ...
people, etc ; adhesion; carboxymethylcellulose; cattle; deformation; digestibility; digestible protein; digestion; dysphagia; elderly; food matrix; gastrointestinal system; gelatin; hydrocolloids; in vitro digestion; mushrooms; protein sources; saliva; starch; thickeners; viscoelasticity; viscosity; whey protein; Show all 23 Subjects
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... This study aimed to investigate the food matrix impact of adding two different proteins, whey protein (WP), bovine gelatin protein (BG) or their respective hydrolysates (WPH or BGH), and two hydrocolloids, neutral modified waxy-maize starch (MS) or charged carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), on flow and viscoelastic properties, oral processing, and in vitro gastrointestinal digestion of protein-enriche ...
... Using event study methodology, this paper examined the effects of water environment regulations on the stock prices of polluting Chinese firms over the past decade. It was found that there were relatively weak market responses to regulations passed by the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, and more significant market responses to regulations implemented by less powerful admi ...
... The current food environment communicates the social norm that it is normal to consume large amounts of unhealthy and unsustainable foods. However, it is unknown whether people endorse this norm because they agree with it, or whether they endorse it because they overestimate the degree to which other people agree with this norm – a phenomenon that is labeled as ‘pluralistic ignorance’. We examined ...