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Popularization of cars, penetration of electric vehicles, and energy consumption of Chinese households

open access: yesFrontiers in Energy Research
Based on survey data from Chinese households, this study uses a fixed effects model to examine the impact of car ownership on household energy consumption.
Siyuan Yin
doaj   +1 more source

Household Consumption Through Recent Recessions [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK. The ‘Great Recession’ has been different from those that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.
Thomas F. Crossley   +2 more
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Culinary Chemistry as a Platform for Interfacial Materials Design

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Culinary processes control interfaces through heating, shear, gelation, and molecular transport. This Review connects selected gastronomic examples with food‐derived nanomaterials, plasmonic sensing, anthocyanin photovoltaics, and intelligent packaging. Original agar‐based plasmonic films illustrate the proposed translation.
Josep Moreno   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of food-away-from-home consumption propensity and expenditures in Ethiopia: a double-hurdle approach

open access: yesConsumer Behavior Review
Food-away-from-home consumption is fast becoming a trend in developing economies and thus has implications for the agricultural sector and agribusiness.
Stanley Kojo Dary   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heterogeneous interpretation of “household expenditure” in survey reports: Evidence and implications of bias [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper addresses respondents’ interpretation of the term “household expenditure” when answering survey questions. A sizeable minority of respondents do not attempt to include all transactions made by every household member, interpreting the question ...
David Comerford, Liam Delaney
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From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crowding-out Effect of Tobacco Expenditure And Its Implications on Intra-Household Resource Allocation [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has implications for nutrition intake and intra-household resource allocation in developing countries.
Rijo M John
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Chinese animal product consumption in the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes
Chinese animal product consumption behaviour was analysed for both urban and rural households using a complete regional consumption dataset that was augmented to include away‐from‐home consumption.
Rozelle, Scott   +3 more
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