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Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann, Jeffrey D. Michler, Maybin Mwangala, Osaretin Olurotimi, Natalia Estrada Carmona   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical composition and functional characterisation of commercial pumpkin seed oil

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2012
AbstractBACKGROUND: Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) seed oil is a common product in Slovenia, Hungary and Austria and is considered a preventive agent for various pathologies, particularly prostate diseases. These properties are related to its high content of carotenoids and liposoluble vitamins.
PROCIDA, GIUSEPPE, STANCHER, BRUNO, CATENI, FRANCESCA, ZACCHIGNA, MARINA   +3 more
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Diets, fruit and vegetables consumption, and nutritional status in Benin: A scoping review

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
This scoping review summarised existing literature on diets, fruit and vegetable intake, and nutritional status in Benin. Key knowledge gaps were on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies and differences in fruit and vegetable intake by geographical and socioeconomic characteristics.
Lilia Bliznashka, Kamara Pather, Irene M. Mitchodigni, Sonja Y. Hess, Deanna K. Olney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing Hypotheses of Covariate Effects on Topics of Discourse

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: An ASA Data Science Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT We introduce an approach to topic modeling with document‐level covariates that remains tractable in the face of large text corpora. This is achieved by de‐emphasizing the role of parameter estimation in an underlying probabilistic model, assuming instead that the data come from a fixed but unknown distribution whose statistical functionals are
Gabriel Phelan, David A. Campbell
wiley   +1 more source

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Oil from pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) seeds: evaluation of its functional properties on wound healing in rats

Lipids in Health and Disease, 2016
Background Increasing natural drug demand for pharmaceutical uses has encouraged scientifics all over the world to explore medicinal plants recognized as efficient remedies.
Sana Bardaa, Nihed Ben Halima, Fatma Aloui, Riadh Ben Mansour, Hazem Jabeur, Mohamed Bouaziz, Zouheir Sahnoun   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oil and Tocopherol Content and Composition of Pumpkin Seed Oil in 12 Cultivars

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2007
Twelve pumpkin cultivars (Cucurbita maxima D.), cultivated in Iowa, were studied for their seed oil content, fatty acid composition, and tocopherol content. Oil content ranged from 10.9 to 30.9%. Total unsaturated fatty acid content ranged from 73.1 to 80.5%. The predominant fatty acids present were linoleic, oleic, palmitic, and stearic.
Stevenson, David, Eller, Fred, Wang, Liping, Wang, Tong, Jane, Jay-Lin, Inglett, George   +5 more
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On the Limits of Alpine Plants: A Systematic Review of the Factors Behind Species' Elevational Range Limits

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
This systematic review of 107 studies on the factors behind the elevational range limits of alpine vascular plants shows a persistent emphasis on upper limits and abiotic factors, especially temperature, while work at lower limits is more evenly distributed across water availability, plant–plant interactions, and selection/local adaptation.
Sophie E. Weides, John‐Arvid Grytnes, Stefan Dullinger, Jonathan Lenoir, L. Camila Pacheco‐Riaño, John R. Pannell, Sonja Wipf, Sabine B. Rumpf   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Carbon Number‐specific Impact of Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons on Inducing Colonic Inflammation in Female and Male Fischer 344 Rats

Food Frontiers, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2026.
MOSH‐induced colonic alterations and sex‐specific metabolic pathways in female and male F344 rats. ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of mineral oil saturated hydrocarbon (MOSH) sub‐fractions (C20‐30 and C30‐50) on the colon of male and female F344 rats and the underlying mechanisms.
Lin Zhu, Mingming Zhang, Hong Zhang, Hai Zhang, Boyan Gao, Liangli (Lucy) Yu, Yaqiong Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of crude and purified pumpkin seed oil.

Grasas y Aceites, 1997
Oil from hulled pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo and Cucurbita Maxima) was extracted with hot petroleum ether, and then it was degummed, neutralized and bleached, consecutively Physical and chemical characteristics of crude and purified oils were determined.
John Tsaknis, Stavros Lalas, Evangelos S. Lazos   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources