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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"human food"”.
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Anthropogenic influences on the behavioural ecology of urban vervet monkeys
… challenges is necessary to provide guidance for human-wildlife management plans. This thesis focuses broadly on the behavioural ecology of the adaptive, generalist vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). We use an integrative approach to assess the behavioural ecology of urban vervet monkeys …
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Metabolic changes to GLUT-4 levels in urban Chacma baboons on the Cape Peninsula: raiding their way to type 2 diabetes?
… of the Cape Peninsula are established raiders of human food, leading to widespread conflict between this intelligent, adaptable species and humans. The modern Western diet that these baboons have become exposed to has many deleterious effects on health, including obesity and type 2 diabetes. The …
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Provisioning and Its Effects on the Social Interactions of Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca Thibetana</i>) at Mt. Huangshan, China
<p>The dispersal patterns of food resources has a significant effect on the composition of primate groups and social interactions within those groups. Humans often alter the dispersal of food. Non-humans often use affiliative behaviors to elicit tolerance or support from other group members. I …
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An Evaluation of High Protein Oat Forage for Dairy Cattle
… grave importance that we meet the challenge of human food production. In developed nations, urban sprawl is devouring land once used for agricultural purposes, while in underdeveloped nations, malnutrition is commonplace. The technology of the 21st century will need to develop new methods and …
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It’s clam-plicated: how functional traits influenced extinction patterns of Neogene West Atlantic mollusks
… of marine ecosystems, but are also essential human food sources throughout much of the world, their patterns of survival under future anthropogenic climate change conditions must be predicted in order to focus conservation efforts. Bivalves and gastropods from the West Atlantic (WA) during the …
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The ManhattAnt: Identification, natural history, and nutritional ecology of a recently introduced pest in New York City, Lasius emarginatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
… and determine whether they are exploiting human food resources in highly urban habitats.</p>
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
… mutually reinforcing effects of industrialised food production on humans, nonhumans, and their environments. To do so, it employs the ethnographic data collected over the course of a 12-month fieldwork in Barbagia, rural Sardinia, by living and working alongside local shepherds. It adds a …
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Consumer Evaluation of a New Low-Fat Spread-Type Dairy Product
… from the standpoint of the general welfare, in human food; generally this is also the most gainful method. The high nutritional value of these products also makes them valuable in feeding calves, pigs, and poultry. This use has been justified to a great extent by the relatively high cost of …
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Oxidative stress responses in Campylobacter jejuni: the role of the Peroxide Regulator PerR
Campylobacter jejuni is a microaerophilic foodborne pathogen capable of surviving the stressful, oxygen-exposed route from an avian host and entering into the human food chain. The ability of Campylobacter to survive oxidative stress is thought to contribute to the annual ~500,000 UK cases of …
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Biological wastes as plant growth substrate amendments
… as well as increases in the transmission of human food-poisoning pathogens on raw vegetables and in fruit juices. The first part of this research was concerned with the evaluation of a biological control strategy for soil-borne pathogens, these are difficult to eliminate and the chemicals of …
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Valorization of Carrot Processing Waste
… to be utilized as a functional ingredient in human food rather than being landfilled, composted or used as animal feed.</p>
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Experimental Approaches to Understand and Control Salmonella Infection in Poultry
<p>Salmonella is a major foodborne pathogen around the world and chickens are the major reservoir to transmit Salmonella into the human food chain. For decreasing the infection of Salmonella, we developed six attenuated live vaccines based on Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) and Typhimurium (ST) for …
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Feeding preferences of Tripneustes gratilla Linnaeus Echinodermata Echinodea and the prospect for sea urchin aquaculture in South Africa
Sea urchin aquaculture for human food is a major industry, and there are prospects for the industry in South Africa. Feeding preferences of the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla were tested by two different methods; a touch-preference test and a 48-hour consumption test. A touchpreference is …
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Downstream processing of Black soldier fly larvae protein for human consumption
… footprint, producing BSFL protein powders for human consumption remains technologically constrained. The current methods employed to produce animal feed ingredients from BSFL are inadequate for human food production, as they are unable to separate the protein fraction from indigestible chitin …
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Avocado meal: A novel dietary fiber source in feline and canine diets
With the increasing competition between the human food and the pet food industries for ingredient procurement and availability, the pet food industry is looking for new ingredients that do not compete directly with the human food supply chain. Many by-products from the human food processing …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… and rural settings. Their frequent proximity to humans has enabled deep sociocultural attachments as well as cultural co-evolution. However, this proximity has also created conflict: corvid persecution in England today is controversial and commonly assumed to be ancient tradition. To assess the …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… and rural settings. Their frequent proximity to humans has enabled deep sociocultural attachments as well as cultural co-evolution. However, this proximity has also created conflict: corvid persecution in England today is controversial and commonly assumed to be ancient tradition. To assess the …
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Energy Requirements and Expenditure, Economics, and Health
… describes a novel method for the estimation of human food energy requirements by combining disparate data sources (i.e., demographic, anthropometrics and accelerometry). The manuscript describes the creation of the first objectively estimated physical activity level (PAL), nationally …
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Evaluation of Yield and Quality of Cheddar Cheese Manufactured from Milk with Added Whey Protein Concentrate
… are used as commodity ingredients mostly in human food applications (65). Use of whey proteins has been limited because of poor physical and functional properties of the commercial products. Within the last 10 years, the efficient and economical removal of the water from whey by membrane …
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