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Four Ways Plastic Surgeons Can Fight Climate Change
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2020 Background:. The climate crisis demands that surgeons reduce their environmental impact. Operating rooms are resource-intensive and are often wasteful. This makes them fitting targets for climate-conscious decision making. Methods:.
Ciara Brown, MD, Clifton Meals, MD
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The Antidiabetic Potential of Alpha‐Mangostin: A Review of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Alpha‐mangostin is a compound from the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana. The antidiabetic effects of alpha‐mangostin include enhancing insulin secretion, improving glucose uptake through GLUT receptor upregulation, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation, promoting wound healing, reducing HbA1C, reducing HOMA‐IR index, and decreased mRNA expressions ...
Oliver Dean John +4 more
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Beneficial Body Mass Index for Age‐Related Kidney Function in Males and Females
AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.The impact of BMI on age‐related kidney function decline is highly sex‐ and age‐dependent. Normal BMI (18.5–25 kg/m2) is associated with better age‐related kidney function in all‐aged males and females older than 45 years. ABSTRACT Objectives Kidney function declines with aging, leading to a high prevalence of age‐related disease.
Lu Wei +7 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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La hyène dans les assiettes : un particularisme égyptien ?
Kentron, 2019 Social markers occur frequently in elite tombs in Ancient Egypt. One of the strangest to our eyes is found only in Old Kingdom tombs of the 4th to 6th dynasties: the representation of hyenas in processions of sacrificial animals and scenes of this animal
Dominique Farout
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Healthy Nutrition of Schoolchildren of Aboriginal Population in the North
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2020 Healthy nutrition has a positive impact on human body functioning, however, the foundation of long and active life is laid in childhood and teenage years.
Т. V. Zhubreva, E. N. Myasnikova
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
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Bus Drivers' and Assistant Nurses' Conceptualizations of Food and Meals During Working Hours
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2010 In today's Europe, only 24 per cent of the labor force always works regular daytime hours. The aim of the current study was to explore conceptualizations of food and meals in relation to irregular working hours. The participants were eight bus drivers in
Eva Gunilla Svederberg +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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