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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev, Jeremy Jelliffe, Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Food Technologies and Motives of Food Choice Influence Willingness to Eat Cereal Products Fortified with Fibre?

Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2015
The aim was to assess the relationships between willingness to eat cereal products fortified with fibre, attitudes towards food technologies and some food choice motives.
Jeżewska-Zychowicz Marzena, Królak Maria   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Aware Hierarchy Based Food Recognition [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Food recognition is one of the most important components in image-based dietary assessment. However, due to the different complexity level of food images and inter-class similarity of food categories, it is challenging for an image-based food recognition system to achieve high accuracy for a variety of publicly available datasets.
arxiv  

Breast-milk iodine concentration declines over the first 6 mo postpartum in iodine-deficient women.

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the iodine status of lactating mothers and their infants during the first 6 mo postpartum or, if deficient, the amount of supplemental iodine required to improve status. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to determine maternal
Andersson, Andrew R Gray, Ares, Azizi, Chierici, Chueire, Delange, Delange, Delange, Dorea, Elaine L Ferguson, Etling, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, Gordon, Hannah M Mulrine, Hannan, Hetzel, Hollowell, Johnson, Kratzsch, National Health and Medical Research Council, Parr, Pierre Valeix, Riley, Rossipal, Semba, Sheila A Skeaff, Tazebay, The Public Health Committee of the American Thyroid Association, Thomson, Thomson, World Health Organization/ United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization/ United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund/International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Yan, Younes, Zimmermann, Zimmermann   +37 more
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Exploring the relationship between growth in online shopping and multichannel food consumers

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract During the pandemic, many food retailers began offering online shopping options, primarily in reaction to rising consumer demand for such options, which was a response to supply chain disruptions and fear of contagion and food scarcity.
Mackenzie Gill, Dawn Thilmany
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Clustering Analysis for Investigation of Food Accessibility [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Access to food assistance programs such as food pantries and food banks needs focus in order to mitigate food insecurity. Accessibility to the food assistance programs is impacted by demographics of the population and geography of the location. It hence becomes imperative to define and identify food assistance deserts (Under-served areas) within a ...
arxiv  

Playing with Food: Learning Food Item Representations through Interactive Exploration [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
A key challenge in robotic food manipulation is modeling the material properties of diverse and deformable food items. We propose using a multimodal sensory approach to interact and play with food that facilitates the ability to distinguish these properties across food items.
arxiv  

Fortification and health: challenges and opportunities. [PDF]

, 2015
Fortification is the process of adding nutrients or non-nutrient bioactive components to edible products (e.g., food, food constituents, or supplements). Fortification can be used to correct or prevent widespread nutrient intake shortfalls and associated
Bailey, Regan L, Dary, Omar, Dwyer, Johanna T, Gaine, P Courtney, Jarvis, Ashley B, Keen, Carl L, King, Janet C, Miller, Kevin B, Philbert, Martin A, Tarasuk, Valerie, Taylor, Christine L, Wiemer, Kathryn L   +11 more
core  

Predictors of vitamin D status and its association with parathyroid hormone in young New Zealand children.

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Despite increased awareness of the adverse health effects of low vitamin D status, few studies have evaluated 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] status in young children.
Alemzadeh, Andersen, Andrew R Gray, Anne-Louise M Heath, Australian Government Department of Health and Aging, New Zealand Ministry of Health, National Health and Medical Research Council, Bowyer, Brot, Cheng, Elaine L Ferguson, Ewa A Szymlek-Gay, Fares, Food and Nutrition Board. Institute of Medicine, Gessner, Gharaibeh, Gordon, Gordon, Grant, Greer, Guillemant, Guillemant, Harkness, Heaney, Heath, Hill, Hill, Holick, Hollis, Holmes, Judkins, Kimlin, Kumar, Landin-Wilhelmsen, Lehtonen-Veromaa, Lisa A Houghton, Lohman, Mansbach, Mark, McGee, McKenzie, Morris, New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research, Outila, O’Riordan, Pettifor, Prentice, Rajakumar, Rockell, Rockell, Royston, Saintonge, Santmyire, Sloka, Stein, Szymlek-Gay, Viljakainen, Wagner, Weng, Wilkinson, Willis, Xiaolan Deng, Ziegler, Zinman, Zipitis   +62 more
core   +1 more source

Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon. [PDF]

, 2020
Meeting children's vitamin A (VA) needs remains a policy priority. Doing so efficiently is a fiscal imperative and protecting at-risk children during policy transitions is a moral imperative.
Assiene, Jules Guintang, Brown, Kenneth H, Clermont, Adrienne, Engle-Stone, Reina, Kagin, Justin, Luo, Hanqi, Nankap, Martin, Tarini, Ann, Vosti, Stephen A   +8 more
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