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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"dietary needs"”.
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Dishing It Out: Reimagining Multicultural College Dining Through Student-Centered Design
… dining centers fall short in catering to the needs of their multicultural student body, students are often left feeling isolated and even further from home. Using MIT as a case study, this thesis employs user research and digital storytelling to explore how collecting student perspectives can …
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Is subsistence enough? Examining the impact of household farm bio-diversity on dietary diversity in Bukidnon, Philippines.
… production at home in order to meet nutritional needs. This thesis uses household data from Bukidnon, Philippines to develop a Production Diversity Score (PDS) that is used to examine the impact of farm biodiversity on an individual’s Dietary Diversity Score (DDS) and the likelihood that …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… to produce enough food to supply their families’ dietary needs. In addition, limited access to affordable healthy foods compounds problems of rural malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies. A supplemental educational program was initiated at a Catholic boarding school for high school girls in …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… to produce enough food to supply their families’ dietary needs. In addition, limited access to affordable healthy foods compounds problems of rural malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies. A supplemental educational program was initiated at a Catholic boarding school for high school girls in …
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Implementation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in San Francisco
… have sufficient access to food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The issue of food insecurity in cities like San Francisco, California is exacerbated by the high cost of living and food prices over 20% higher than the national average. Dr. Hilary Seligman, a national …
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Food system governance for urban sustainability in the global South
… safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The Food and Agriculture Organisation 2013 State of Food and Agriculture review reports that in excess of 868 million people, 12 percent of the global population, are undernourished. …
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#Instafood: a speculative design exploration of the eating experience, perception, fabrication, and consumption.
The discussion of dietary nutrition and the pursuit of satisfaction in eating experience has consistently attracted significant attention. While advanced technologies have been dedicated to providing solutions in these fields, the challenge of increasingly complex and diverse dietary needs requires …
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Assessing the Economic Potential of Nutrient-Dense Foods Supply Chain in Ethiopia
… that can be produced locally and meet the dietary needs of a target population. Therefore, the focus of the study is to identify the supply chain benefits of alternative nutrient-dense foods in the ready-to-use food supply chain. Data were collected through video interviews with producers …
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The effect of gelatin bloom strength on dry extruded pet food and injection molded treats
… Owners continue to humanize their pets and their dietary needs, thus the pet food industry tends to mirror human dietary trends. Currently, pet food is trending towards higher levels of protein, thus lower levels of starch. Decreasing starch, one of the main structure forming ingredients in …
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Sodium relations in pasture and fodder plants grown in New Zealand
… have potassium levels well in excess of plant needs. Because potassium suppresses plant uptake of sodium and increases the leaching loss of sodium from the soil, it was concluded that excessive use of potassic fertilisers would be expected to aggravate or even create an animal-nutrition problem …
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Dietary quality of school-aged children and teenagers in Ireland by demographic characteristics and eating location
… distinctive life stages characterised by unique dietary needs. Data from nationally representative dietary surveys of children and teenagers across Europe have shown that intakes of key nutrients are not in line with recommendations. Furthermore, demographic characteristics such as sex, age, …
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Climate change risk to southern African native wild food plants
… plants despite these species meeting important dietary needs for a large number of households in developing countries, especially when crops fail or during other times of hardship. My study was the first to look at climate change risk to a broad group of wild edible plants and focussed on the …
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Factors affecting access to comprehensive HIV care among HIV Positive children(0-15years)in Chipata District, Eastern Province, Zambia
… child and is responsible for the child’s health needs. HIV infected children out of the program: children not registered in any ART program. Paediatric antiretroviral therapy coverage: Proportion of children 0-15 years on ART program out of the total adults on ART in the same area. Current on …
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Factors affecting access to comprehensive HIV care among HIV Positive children(0-15years)in Chipata District, Eastern Province, Zambia
… child and is responsible for the child’s health needs. HIV infected children out of the program: children not registered in any ART program. Paediatric antiretroviral therapy coverage: Proportion of children 0-15 years on ART program out of the total adults on ART in the same area. Current on …
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Primate nutritional ecology: the role of food selection, energy intake, and nutrient balancing in Mexican black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) foraging strategies
… as folivores is an oversimplification of their dietary ecology. In this 15-month field study, I combined ecological, behavioral, and phytochemical data to analyze patterns of patch and food choice, nutrient and energy intake, and nutrient balancing in two groups (n = 14) of black howler monkeys …
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An investigation into food security among female-headed households in Kenya : a case of VOI division in Taita-Taveta county
… sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active life and healthy life. Every human being has a right to live in conditions that ensures food security, irrespective of their social or economic situations. This study is an investigation into food …