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Showing 1 to 20 of 402 for “"Hunger"”.
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Full of Hunger
Full of Hunger is a three-part collection of interlinked stories—each part originally anchored by one protagonist, but has evolved, with the help of sub-characters giving glimpses of their own stories while furthering those of others, into a polyphonic telling of multiple relationships and …
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Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin
Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin is a collection of poems that gathers a life of fragments and frayed ends into a loose narrative of desire, loss, language, and almost redemption. The poems examine the costs of leaving home, as seen in a mermaid's wish to become human, an immigrant family's aspirations …
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This text is an attempt to (re)approach the process of political and social transfor-mation in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) over the past century and a half through the prism of popular agency. The primary research question of this dissertation asks why given nearly uniformly catastrophic social …
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Ghrelin: The Hunger Hormone that Isn't
… seems to be sufficient but not necessary for hunger, we injected increasing doses of ghrelin and measured both food intake and the resulting plasma concentration. We found that the threshold dose for an appetite response raised blood concentrations more than 50-fold above physiologic levels -- …
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Hunger and Meaning in the Novels of Cristina García
… these works to be representative of an idea of hunger that highlights the paradox of its contemporary attitudes to consumption and globalisation in light of colonialism and its legacies. The five novels selected for analysis exemplify how, in the specific context of the 1959 Cuban Revolution and …
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Effects of exercise on hunger, food intake and energy expenditure
… the acute and chronic effects of exercise on hunger, energy intake and expenditure. Cross-sectional studies examined the effect of 60 min of moderate-intensity cycling on immediate and subsequent three day energy intake and expenditure in active and inactive men (study one) and women not using …
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The political economy of hunger : famine in Nigeria, 1967-70
… and perceptions which underlay the 'politics of hunger 1 are analysed. The thesis concludes with some remarks on the relationship of the Nigerian famine to episodes of mass starvation elsewhere in the Third World.
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From Feast to Famine: A Tale of Satiety and Hunger Hormones
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Katniss and the Monomyth: Constructing Gender Identity in the Hunger Games
… will specifically examine Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Additionally, it will look at the role gender plays in the female hero's journey and how it is different from the traditional male journey. I found that these differences are vast and should be incorporated into the study of the …
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Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism
<p>Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism takes the Global Seed Vault and the value of "global crop diversity" as a point of departure for raising questions about the influence of digital technology on the seed and about the solution to hunger known as …
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Bodies at their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes
Hunger strikers operate in a liminal space between the active political subject and the passive object of violence that underpin many theories of political violence. Through a feminist and anti-racist analysis of two women’s hunger strikes in the United Kingdom – the hunger strikes conducted by …
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A Local Level Response to Reducing Childhood Hunger and Advancing SDG#2
Child hunger continues to be ongoing concern in Canada due to adverse effects that poor nutrition can have on developmental outcomes. The objective of this research was to investigate a local-level approach as a potential solution to reducing hunger and improving nutrition for vulnerable children …
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Investigation Into School Lunch Quality Following Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Implementation
… between school lunch quality and the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA) revised nutrition standards was investigated. School Lunches from four Washington State elementary schools that earned HealthierUS School Challenge awards. Nutrition content of the meals selected and consumed was …
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Iron sharpens iron : member experiences of collaboration in the Texas Hunger Initiative.
… with collaboration within the Texas Hunger Initiative's (THI's) Hunger Free Community Coalitions (HFCCs). Chapter One provides an overview of the dissertation and grounds the work in Talcott Parsons's theories. Chapter Two builds on Jones's (2006) work exploring member characteristics …
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C. elegans integrates food, stress, and hunger signals to coordinate motor activity
In the presence of a bacterial food source, the small nematode C. elegans greatly reduces its rate of locomotion. While mechanical agitation greatly stimulates the locomotion of well-fed animals on bacteria, it does not greatly stimulate the locomotion of food-deprived animals on bacteria. Thus, …
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