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Showing 1 to 20 of 10363 for “"Consumption"”.
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Beyond consumption experiences.
The term ‘consumption experience’ has become ubiquitous in marketing and consumer research circles. In this thesis I question the appropriateness of this canonical term. In its stead I employ the non-dualistic term ‘experiaction’, coined by an ecological psychologist, which points to the functional …
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Towards Mindful Consumption
… climate change at one of its sources: overconsumption. The thesis examines the history of consumer culture to identify the causes of our current excessive consumption patterns. Through analyzing the influences that advertising and culture have on our behavior, this thesis aims to demystify …
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Oxygen Consumption in Sepsis
… lactate, SOFA score mortality index, oxygen consumption [by way of measuring net oxygen consumed, (V02) and net carbon dioxide produced (VC02)], and sepsis. Specific Aims: Aims were to describe 1) patient demographics, serum lactate, SOFA score mortality index, sepsis diagnosis, and 02 …
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Hyperbolic discounting and consumption
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Factors of material consumption
Historic consumption trends for materials have been studied by many researchers, and, in order to identify the main drivers of consumption, special attention has been given to material intensity, which is the consumption of materials (in mass quantities) per GDP per capita. For our analysis, a new …
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Benefits of Seafood Consumption Versus Risks of Methyl Mercury: Does Consumption Warrant Concern?
… are adequately meeting this requirement. Consumption advisories are widely used in the United States and across the world, but guidelines which are too conservative can be more detrimental to public health than low level methyl mercury expo sure. In order to better understand the risks and …
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Social dynamics of energy consumption
… at the heart of the energy system. The changing consumption patterns embodied in routine purchases significantly influence the extent of climate change impacts. Yet, their prominence in the energy demand and supply paradigm lends them the potential to also act as agents of change in accelerating …
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Predicting mobile application power consumption
We present an analysis of battery consumption to predict the average consumption rate of any given application. We explain the process and techniques used to gather the data, and present over 25000 readings collected over 3 months. We then use iterative proportional fitting to predict the …
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Flavonoid Consumption of College Athletes
… to determine the relationship between flavonoid consumption and BMI. The study showed the average intake of total flavonoids for 33 SDSU college athletes was about 73.13 mg/day and median was 39.43 mg/day. These values are much lower than that of a typical American populations due to the unique …
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Explaning variation in luxury consumption
… PhD study extends the existing knowledge on the consumption of luxuries, by bringing together the conspicuous consumption and luxury consumption literature with self-concept and trait theory, in order to develop a conceptual framework that explains the phenomenon of luxury consumption from a …
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Brand consumption in contemporary Vietnam .
… in which globalizing processes in relation to consumption are negotiated and interpreted at the micro level i.e. the level of the consumer. Focusing, in particular, on the influence of brand consumption upon identity, it seeks to understand how these aspirational consumers within the two …
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Water Consumption Behavior in Broilers
… trials were conducted to analyze broiler water consumption behaviors under commercial conditions. The first trial was to quantify the number of broilers drinking at times of peak water demand. Birds were evaluated at time intervals of 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes from the start of the light …
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Consumption patterns of poor households
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Individual consumption and aggregate implications
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Financing retirement consumption and bequests
… vehicles for financing either retirement consumption or bequests. Chapter 1 compares the use of Roth and tax-deferred retirement accounts for retirement consumption with the use of taxable accounts. Previously, economists have often assumed that retirement savings should be done in a …
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Variations of water consumption rates
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1947.
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