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People with Disabilities: The Overlooked Consumers
Social Inclusion, 2019 This thematic issue aims at developing and disseminating knowledge about how consumption can promote and inhibit social participation and social inclusion through increased access to and use of marketplaces, goods and services.
Kirsi Laitala, Anita Borch
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Connected Consumption: The Hidden Networks of Consumption [PDF]
2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009 In this paper, we present the Connected Consumption Network (CCN) that allows a community of consumers to collaboratively sense the market from a mobile device, enabling more informed financial decisions in geo-local context. The mobile application allows one to log one's wish list and itemized list of transactions to form a social network around the ...
Reed, David P. +4 more
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Constrained portfolio-consumption strategies with uncertain parameters and borrowing costs [PDF]
, 2018 This paper studies the properties of the optimal portfolio-consumption strategies in a {finite horizon} robust utility maximization framework with different borrowing and lending rates.
Liang, Gechun, Yang, Zhou, Zhou, Chao
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediate intercellular communication in tumor immune microenvironments. However, their role in B‐cell malignancies remains poorly defined, owing to biological complexity and technical challenges in EV isolation and analysis.
Daniel Bachurski, Michael Hallek
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Energy Consumption of Lactating Mothers: Current Situation and Problems [PDF]
, 2014 Recommendations on the adequacy of nutrient intake indicate that lactating mothers have higher nutritional needs than do pregnant mothers. High nutrient intake is necessary to help mothers recover after childbirth, produce milk, and maintain the quantity
Fikawati, S. (Sandra) +3 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground A shift away from diets high in animal-based foods towards diets high in plant-based foods is desirable considering human health, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare.
Ward S. van Hoeven +3 more
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International Journal of Food Contamination, 2021 The application of a high resolution and accurate mass spectrometry (HRAMS) approach to detect xenobiotics in different food matrices by means of non targeted determination by UHPLC-Orbitrap followed by data processing analysis was described.
Rossana Scarpone +5 more
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The Energy Cost of Extracting Critical Raw Materials from Tailings: The Case of Coltan
Geosciences, 2022 Niobium and tantalum are mainly produced from columbite–tantalite ores, and 60% of their production is nowadays located in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
Ricardo Magdalena +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Exposure to common noxious agents (1), including allergens, pollutants, and micro‐nanoplastics, can cause epithelial barrier damage (2) in our body's protective linings. This may trigger an immune response to our microbiome (3). The epithelial barrier theory explains how this process can lead to chronic noncommunicable diseases (4) affecting organs ...
Can Zeyneloglu +17 more
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