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Exploring Lifestyle Orientation, Attitudes Toward Lifestyle Merchandising, and Attitudes Toward Lifestyle Advertising as Predictors of Behavioral Intention to Purchase Lifestyle Home Furnishing Products
A number of lifestyle merchandising and advertising strategies are being used in the home furnishings industry. However, there is limited research regarding the effectiveness of these strategies. The purpose of this study was to explore consumers' attitudes toward the lifestyle concept. Analyses of …
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Adapting Lifestyle: The Dwelling
With over half the world living in cities there is a need for designing city housing. The DC Office of Planning did a survey on housing that shows a high percentage of 1 to 2-bedroom apartments and shows a lower percentage of 3 to 4-bedroom apartments. Is there a way to design with different …
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Diet, lifestyle and musculoskeletal health
… as dietary intake, physical activity and other lifestyle related factors. More specifically, observational evidence suggests that increased fruit and vegetable consumption may be associated with improved musculoskeletal health. However, there is a lack of direct evidence to support this concept. …
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Lifestyle Factors Related to Cognitive Aging
… hallmark feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and lifestyle behaviors have been associated with a reduced risk of disease onset and slower rate of cognitive decline. Research examining the relationship of lifestyle factors (LFs) to brain health has typically focused on individual factors in …
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A continuum approach to lifestyle entrepreneurship.
… their occupation to suit their style of life. Lifestyle motivations have thus been recognised in the literature as important stimuli to small business formation. Various research has been undertaken into the lifestyle construct and the impact on the motivations and behaviours of the individual …
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Sedentary lifestyle and obesity in adults
… about the underlying nature of sedentary lifestyles and its relation to obesity at the population level. The study utilized two promising measurement tools to obtain both objective and subjective measures of SB. The objective tool served as the criterion and provided strong associations …
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Lifestyle, Brain Structure and Cognitive Ageing
This thesis explores the lifestyle and brain structure correlates of cognitive ageing. Using large datasets and a range of multivariate statistical approaches, it is divided into three empirical sections, which are framed by a General Introduction and Conclusion. The first Chapter, the General …
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Personality and the healthy lifestyle as predictors of physical health: Can the healthy lifestyle be explained by personality?
… health and epidemiological research, the Healthy Lifestyle (HLS) is often invoked as an explanation for inconsistent effects. Modifiable components of the HLS are advocated as a panacea for the most common threats to public health. Biases resulting from the HLS are theorized to result from …
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Neighborhood design and the energy efficiency of urban lifestyle in China : treating residence and mobility as lifestyle bundle
… will have a long-lasting effect on households' lifestyles of energy consumption. This research uses Jinan as a context for Chinese cities, and tries to understand how neighborhood design influences households' direct energy consumption, including travel and in-home energy use, through the …
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
… field of health and well-being to help modify lifestyle factors associated with various diseases such as cancer, diabetes and many more. To improve well-being, an individual needs motivation, and this motivation is one of the key driving factors responsible for user engagement. This research …
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Lifestyle and mood factors in sport performance
… complete. Descriptive analysis portrayed similar lifestyle and mood profiles across the three levels of sport performance while discriminant analysis revealed that lifestyle as well as mood variables could not predict level of sport performance (p < 0.05). The research hypotheses that healthier …
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LifeStyle – La App más cool de comida saludable
El comercio electrónico ha revolucionado la forma en que el mundo compra y vende, convirtiéndose en una herramienta poderosa en manos de aquellos que buscan innovar. Dentro de este vasto universo digital, un nicho particularmente intrigante es el de los alimentos saludables, especialmente en …
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Test model of a healthy lifestyle intervention program
… baseline, 12 and 24 months. The I group attended lifestyle classes at the workplace and reported pedometer step counts. Data were analyzed using general linear model ANOVA or Chi square analysis.</p><p>At 12 months from baseline, the I group had a decreased LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) (126.67 +/- 4.0 …
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Nutritional factors and lifestyle in prostate cancer patients
… common male cancer in the UK. A healthy diet and lifestyle may have the potential to impact upon cancer progression, treatment related side effects, and comorbidities as well as on quality of life in prostate cancer patients. Nutrition and lifestyle behaviours are therefore important aspects to …
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Women Supporting Women: Lifestyle Influencers and Branded Femininity
… the branded femininity of beauty and lifestyle influencer, Estée Lalonde. With over 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and 700,000 followers on Instagram, Lalonde uses the postfeminist credibility she established through performing hegemonic femininity to position herself as an authority …
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Latino lifestyle & the new urbanism : synergy against sprawl
… environmental benefits inherent in the Latino lifestyle. Research is presented that shows Latino assimilation of conventional lifestyles or what is referred to as "Latino Sprawl", could result in detrimental consequences not just for Latinos but also the general California population. These …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Lifestyle Choice in Public Accounting
This dissertation examines the effects of healthy lifestyle of auditors in public accounting as a mitigating influence between role stress and job outcomes (performance, satisfaction, and turnover). Based on coping and self-determination theories, the study was designed to investigate the impact of …
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Determinants of Health-Promoting Lifestyle among Nurses in Taiwan
… nurse (RN) to the practice of a health-promoting lifestyle; (2) determine the combination of predictor variables explaining the variance in the practice of a health-promoting lifestyle; and (3) investigate other personal and environmental cues and characteristics related to health-promoting …
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Metabolic and Lifestyle related risk factors for pancreatic cancer
Background and aims: In spite of the fact that pancreatic cancer is a relatively infrequent disease, it ranks 8th in the worldwide ranking of cancer death due to the poor prognosis. The mortality rate is almost as high as the incidence with a M/I ratio of 98%, indicating an extremely dismal …
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