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Showing 1 to 20 of 1189 for “"Consume"”.
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Securely Consume Web Services Using PHP
… and implementation of PHP applications that consume Web services. In doing so, I have proposed a framework facilitating PHP programs to utilize Web services with high performance capability. In addition, a number of Web service standards including WS-Addressing and those in WS-Security are …
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Millennials' motivation to consume sport content online
… young (Millennial) sports enthusiasts. As this consumer group grows in purchasing power, so does their influence on how sport content is presented and will be presented in the future, as well as the financial viability of service providers in the future. The purpose of the study is to gain …
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Girl Scouts Empower Other Girl Scouts to Consume 3-A-Day™ of Dairy
Osteoporosis affects half of all women over the age of fifty, but can be prevented through proper nutrition and exercise early in life. Few studies have been conducted that document positive gains in knowledge about osteoporosis prevention in young girls and no research has been completed in which …
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Do Rats Consume Ethanol to Regulate a Negative Emotion Induced by a Successive Negative Contrast Procedure?
… the self-medication hypothesis, individuals may consume drugs or alcohol, or engage in other behaviors in order to reduce a negative emotional state (Khantzian, 1985; Gross, 2013; Crum et al., 2013). Rats experiencing a negative state induced by various stressors (Bertholomey et al., 2010), or a …
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Consume happy: the relationship with food for fat women with a history of early psychological adversity
Obesity is recognised as a worldwide epidemic; however, little is known about the psychological influences on the development and maintenance of obesity. There is increasing evidence that early adverse experience impact adult health, but very little empirical data, beyond naming emotional …
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An Analysis of the Personalities of a Sample of Students at Grand Valley State University Who Consume Alcohol
… to the personality traits/characteristics of theconsumer. At Grand Valley State University, alcohol abuse on campus is a great concern. The purpose of this study was to analyze the personalities and needs of some students at the university who have been participants in the Time Out program--a …
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How Students Access, Filter and Evaluate Digital News: Choices That Shape What They Consume and the Implications for News Literacy Education
… with training students to be discerning news consumers. Assessments of news literacy typically gauge the effects of exposure to news literacy curricula measured through student analysis of media messages selected by researchers. This exploratory, mixed-methods study instead examined how …
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Effects of chemogenetic inhibition of dopamine transporter- or A2A-expressing neurons on spontaneous activity and motivation to consume a palatable food reward
<p>Dopamine (DA) transmission in the striatum influences the motivated pursuit of rewarding stimuli. Pharmacological and opto- and chemo-genetic studies have suggested that the release of DA onto D2+/A2A+-expressing striatopallidal neurons, plays a role in this process. To determine the potentially …
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Teaching News Literacy in the Age Of New Media: Why Secondary School Students Should Be Taught to Judge the Credibility of the News They Consume
This paper involves two of the oldest institutions in America -- schools and the press -- and the preparation of informed citizens in the age of new media. I examine the manner and ways in which news literacy, the use of critical thinking skills to judge the reliability of news reports and news …
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An exploration of the experiences of and perceptions about access to antenatal care for rural women who consume alcohol during pregnancy in the Western Cape, South Africa
… women regarding access to ANC for women who consume alcohol during pregnancy. Face-to-face and virtual semi-structured interviews were conducted. Through purposive sampling, ten women who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth, with varying experience of drinking were recruited through a …
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Beyond the Meat Paradox: Psychological Factors Underpinning Animal Product Consumption and Abstention Among Different Dietary Groups
… and their dietary motivations. The groups that consume specific animal products (e.g., pescatarians who consume fish) versus the groups who do not consume them (e.g., vegetarians and vegans who do not consume fish) experienced moral emotions (e.g., fish-related disgust) differently, showed …
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The Beats Have No Color Lines: An Exploration of White Consumption of Rap Music
… and the political beliefs of white rap music consumers. The guiding research questions included an exploration of why whites with little prior concern about racism consume rap music with politically conscious antiracist messages; if whites who consume this music believe the messages spoken are …
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Effects Of Serveware Materiality On Food Perceptions, Consumption, and Waste
… serveware disposability. Studies indicate that consumers waste more food when eating with disposable plates and consume more food when eating with permanent plates. The effect persists whether participants choose their own type and quantity of food or are given the same amount of food, whether …
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Alcohol consumption among students in tertiary learning institutions : a case of Evelyn Hone college students.
… Students were likely to be found to be alcohol consumers. Of the 235 students who drank alcohol, 49.4% were males and 50.6% were females. The minimum age of first alcoholic drink, among students was found to be 10 years with 16 years and approximately 17years as the mode and mean ages, …
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A centralized localization algorithm for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using particle swarm optimization in the existence of obstacles
… field and this will cause the sensor nodes to consume more power if obstacles are exists in the sensing field. In this project, the same centralized relocating algorithm from the previous research has been used where 15 mobile sensors deployed randomly in a field of 100 meter by 100 meter where …
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Prevalence and patterns of alcohol consumption among persons with dementia in Canada
… Community Health Survey (CCHS). Results: PWD consume alcohol at comparable rates to persons without dementia. A reported 60% of PWD consume alcohol. Males more often reported alcohol consumption than females. Multivariate analysis showed PWD who consumed alcohol were less likely to report …
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Essays on the Stochastic Behavior of Consumption and Output
… elasticity of substitution for those consumers who consume their permanent income is statistically significant but less than one, denoting that a rise in interest rates had both a substitution and income effects in Brazil during this period. The percentage of consumers that are …
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Rate design for the 21st Century : improving economic efficiency and distributional equity in electricity rate
… a volumetric (that is, per-unit of electricity consumed) price that recovers the bulk of the costs of generating, transmitting, and distributing electrical energy. These tariffs also often include taxes and recover other costs associated with regulatory or policy measures. The resulting prices …
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