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Commercial Applications of Microalgae [PDF]
, 2006 The first use of microalgae by humans dates back 2000 years to the Chinese, who used Nostoc to survive during famine. However, microalgal biotechnology only really began to develop in the middle of the last century.
Duran, Elie +3 more
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Exposure to different severities of famine and subsequent risk of sarcopenia in old age
Journal of Nutritional Oncology. Background. Poor nutritional status is closely related to the development of sarcopenia and possible sarcopenia. Limited articles have evaluated the impact of undernutrition at different stages of life on the development of sarcopenia or possible ...
Miao-Miao Lu, Yu-Wei Zhou, Xi Jin
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Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020 Background. Emerging studies have explored the association between the famine exposure during early life and the risk of the metabolic syndrome, and the results remain controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to summarize the famine effects on the
Lu-Lu Qin +4 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundAlthough the evidence was still limited, some studies suggested that childhood malnutrition might affect cardiac function and structure in adulthood.
Yu-qin Yan +5 more
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Great Chinese famine, corporate social responsibility and firm value
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 We conceptualize that CEOs who endure traumatic experiences stemming from man-made disasters practice less corporate social responsibility. We exploit a natural experiment—the Great Chinese Famine—to empirically test this hypothesis. We find that (i) firms with CEOs who experienced the Great Chinese Famine score lower in corporate social responsibility
Xu, Cheng +4 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2022 Background Over the past few decades, more studies have suggested that the age at menarche (AAM) has continued to decline. However, the AAM for women in resource-constrained areas is not clear. Moreover, the association between the Chinese famine and AAM
Xueyan Wu +10 more
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Aftershock: CEO Great Famine Experience and Stock Price Crash Risk
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the effect of CEOs’ early-life traumatic experience on firm-specific stock price crash risk. Drawing on the idea of natural experiments, we take the Great Famine in China as an external traumatic event which cannot be selected or ...
Fang Cheng +4 more
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Association of Parental Famine Exposure With Offspring Depression and Cognition Function
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundThe effect of early exposure to famine on depression and cognition in adulthood has been shown, but the intergenerational association of famine remain to be explored.
Ye Liu +6 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthObjectiveTo assess the potential association between exposure to Chinese famine and healthy lifestyles, as well as any gender disparities in this relationship to provide a scientific basis for the development of effective public health policies and ...
Yuxin Sun +4 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 Objective: To investigate whether exposure to the Chinese Famine in different life stages of early life is associated with cognitive functioning decline in adulthood.Methods: We recruited 1366 adults born between 1952 and 1964 and divided them into fetal-
Chao Wang +7 more
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