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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"nutritional information"”.
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Conversational Multimodal LLMs for Food Nutritional Information Retrieval: A Systematic Evaluation
… of capability and offer the potential to infer nutritional content directly from meal photographs with minimal user effort. This thesis systematically evaluates eight state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (including GPT-4o, Qwen 2, and Qwen 2.5, DeepSeek, and LLaVA), in a zero-shot …
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Consumer response to computerised nutritional information at the point-of-purchase in catering establishments.
… health has led to a demand for more nutrition information to be made available to consumers. Nutrition information is widely available on supermarket products but is rarely found in catering establishments. This research involved the provision of nutrition information in canteens and …
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A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Eating Behaviors at Fast Food Restaurants
… interaction of attitude toward taste and the nutritional information of fast foods to explain fast food consumption behavior. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used to examine from the mutual interplay of attitude toward taste and nutritional information of fast food, which factor is …
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Nutritional Labeling on Menus in Full-Service Restaurants: Consumer Attitudes and Intended Usage
… restaurant in Texas. Respondents provided information concerning their health and dining habits as well as their attitudes toward and intended usage of nutritional information (NI) on menus in full-service restaurants. Gender, education levels, age, and household income affect the attitudes …
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Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… of OFSP. Conversely, providing consumers with information about the nutritional benefits of OFSP exert a substantial, positive and significant effect on their acceptance of the produce. Providing nutritional information thus appears to be more crucial in the successful introduction of OFSP and …
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The ecology of food habits in contrasting environments : a study of rural and urban food habits in Papua New Guinea, with supplementary material relating to Australia
… their perceived role in the dissemination of nutritional information to the public. The second describes a survey of nutrition and food related material in a sample of Australian women's magazines. The third, fourth and fifth papers report on an interview-based survey of food habits and …
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The ecology of food habits in contrasting environments : a study of rural and urban food habits in Papua New Guinea, with supplementary material relating to Australia
… their perceived role in the dissemination of nutritional information to the public. The second describes a survey of nutrition and food related material in a sample of Australian women's magazines. The third, fourth and fifth papers report on an interview-based survey of food habits and …
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High Accuracy Mobile 3D Scanning Using Structured Laser Beam Patterning
… that target diet-related problems. Currently, nutritional research is considerably hindered by the low accuracy in estimating individual dietary intake, and, more specifically, portion size. Dietary assessment plays an increasingly significant role in modern medical research. While inadequate …
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Healthy Eating Opportunities and Choices for University Faculty
… on healthy food availability, inaccurate nutritional information and portion sizes, and higher cost of healthier foods. Resolutions to creating a healthier eating environment included increasing availability of local produce, having easier access to healthy items, and marketing and …
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Natural language processing based nutritional application
The ability to accurately and eciently track nutritional intake is a powerful tool in combating obesity and other food related diseases. Currently, many methods used for this task are time consuming or easily abandoned; however, a natural language based application that converts spoken text to …
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A Pilot Study of the Relation of Selected Nutritional Factors to Skeletal Age of Galactosemic Children
… The data which were especially emphasized were: nutritional information and skeletal radiological reports. To receive more information on the nutritional intake of calories, protein, calcium and vitamin D, a 3-day nutritional history form was mailed to the parent of each child once a month for a …
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Configuration and evaluation of a constrained nutrition dialogue system
Logging daily food intake and nutritional information is a proven way to lose weight. However, research shows that existing approaches for the prevention and treatment of excess weight gain are ineffective, burdensome, and often times, inaccurate. Thus, we have developed a natural language …
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Mathematical approaches to food nutrient content estimation with a focus on phenylalanine
… bound for the Phe content based on the available nutritional information. The first approach is based on the statistical distribution of the Phe to protein ratios. To be precise, we propose the multipliers 20 and 65 to obtain a minimum bound and a maximum bound for the Phe content from the protein …
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A multi-modal evaluation of an integrated treatment program for college women with eating problems
… were self-referred and participated in bi-weekly nutritional counseling (biological), bi-weekly individual psychotherapy (psychological), and weekly group psychotherapy (social) over the course of one college semester. Details concerning these therapies are included. An evaluation was performed of …
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A Survey to Determine the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of College Students in Regard to Soy Protein and Coronary Heart Disease
… more females, were concerned with the nutritional content, fat content, and cholesterol content of their food respectively, and 74.4% would change an eating habit if it would benefit their health. Of the 26.5% who had never eaten any soy product, significant differences were found …
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Adult consumers' understanding and use of information on food labels : a study among consumers living in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp region
… should be able to understand and use the information provided on food labels. Objective: To investigate adult consumers' understanding regarding the information on food labels and to determine whether they use the information on food labels in making food choices. Design: A cross-sectional …
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Análise comparativa da qualidade nutricional de ricotas tradicional, light e orgânica vendidas em João Pessoa
… assessing the general physico - chemical and nutritional characteristics of the product, this work has as main goal, investigate p hysico - chemical parameters and nutritional information ricotta cheeses marketed in João Pessoa – PB, evaluating their physico - chemical parameters by the …
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Growth and determinants at two years of age in a South African birth cohort
… data collected during the antenatal period and nutritional information, intercurrent illness and immunisation data collected longitudinally in the first 2 years was used. Anthropometric data, measured at 2 years, were analysed as z-scores adjusted for child age, sex, and prematurity, and used to …
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The role of diet, nutritional assessment and nutritional intervention in the prevention of cancer and the treatment of cancer-related malnutrition
… The procedure was associated with significant nutritional decline; however the implementation of an enhanced recovery after surgery protocol incorporating intensive peri-operative feeding appeared to yield significant clinical benefits, including shorter length of hospital stay, early cessation …
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Effect of carbon source on growth, sporulation, and development of mosquito toxicity by Bacillus sphaericus
The goals of this research were 1) to provide nutritional information that would be useful for the classification of Bacillus sphaericus, a heterogenous bacterial species, 2) to determine nutritional characteristics that would assist in the design of a selective medium for the mosquito pathogenic …
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