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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"over-consumption"”.
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
… the period 1744-1826 evince anxieties regarding over-consumption, particularly in relation to imperial expansion. I argue that the prevalence of gout in graphic satire indicates a common cultural understanding and perception of upper-class over-consumption of food, alcohol, material goods, and …
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Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand
… were also more concerned with the ethics of over-consumption. Australian participants exhibited characteristics of low-context cultures and often used a direct style to demonstrate their knowledge of the media. Thai participants used characteristically elaborate and indirect styles, typical …
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Integrating life cycle analysis and the ecological footprint calculator to foster sustainable behaviors
… sustainable development policies. However, as governments develop sustainable policies, individuals must also feel empowered to affect their personal impact on the planet. This thesis integrates three sustainability concepts that lend themselves to individual sustainability: The natural step, …
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What's swimming in my glass? The debate over the Southern Nevada Water Authority's use of the return flow credit policy
… others that it is a means to justify the over-consumption of water and is altering the watershed in potentially harmful ways. This thesis will discuss this issue and the concept of 'civic environmentalism.' What I call A-I-D (assess-involve-develop) is offered as a new ethic for creating a …
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The Pursuit of Balanced Income: An Economic Perspective on Wealth
… labor-eliminating technology, and an overburdened entitlement system, the position of wealth is necessary for households with a penchant for early retirement and particularly for those that will inevitably succumb to involuntary retirement. In these writings, qualitative and …
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Multivariate Analysis of Dietary Data in the Presence of Excess Zeros and Measurement Error
… health problems: (1) Estimation of under and over consumption of foods consumed occasionally such as alcohol; (2) Investigation of the determinants of food intake, and (3) Estimation of the effect of the intake of occasionally-consumed foods on health outcomes. The analysis of food intake is …
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Investigations into the Effects of Turmeric, Cinnamon and Green Tea on Glycaemic Control and Liver Enzymes
Lifestyle changes such as caloric over-consumption and decreased physical activity are causing overweight and obesity, leading to an epidemic increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Overweight, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are closely linked, and cardio-vascular disease is the most …
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Urbanizing the American dream : symbiotic housing for Baltimore
… seemed limitless: industry marketing and government policies encouraged over consumption and enabled middle class families to buy their own mass produced tract house on a plot of private land accessible only by car. The result was a landscape of sprawl and the draining of urban cores. …
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The use of ruthenium Y zeolite catalysts for the selective methanation of carbon monoxide
… the methanation of CO2 which results in the over consumption of H2. Common catalysts for SMET include Ru/Al2O3 and Ru/Y zeolites. This study involved the use of Ru/Y zeolite catalysts with loadings between 1 wt.%-5.4 wt.% Ru prepared via ion exchange, and a commercial 5 wt.% Ru/Al₂O3. These …
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Effect of environmental enrichment on voluntary salt intake in horses
… showed an even greater difference with lower consumption when the bottles were available to the horses (T = 10, P < 0.05, Wilcoxon’s test for matched pairs). Throughout the study, no horse was found to eat an amount less than or equal to its estimated sodium requirements. The results found in …
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Effect of environmental enrichment on voluntary salt intake in horses
… showed an even greater difference with lower consumption when the bottles were available to the horses (T = 10, P < 0.05, Wilcoxon’s test for matched pairs). Throughout the study, no horse was found to eat an amount less than or equal to its estimated sodium requirements. The results found in …
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Switching the human-power back on: domesticating human-power to practice energy saving behaviour
… as main power source. Against the problem of over consumption of energy, it views the ‘human-powered product’ (HPP) not merely as an object that simply generates ‘free energy’; but instead considers as an interactive artefact that people can make sense of, and as a tool to practice energy …
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Repacking the supermarket: food retail evolution and futures
… systems leading to mass malnutrition and over-consumption. These issues are only expected to become worse as they mix with the challenges of a pandemic, Brexit, and climate change. <br/><br/>This is the first architectural study to look holistically at supermarket shopping. It applies …
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Relationship Between University Student Characteristics and Water Conservation Behaviors
<p>Water over-consumption is a critical issue due to it being a mismanaged, and virtually finite, natural resource. In order to convey this information to the public and promote change, it is important to understand the public’s current attitude towards the topic in order to develop more targeted …
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The Efficacy of Increased Water Consumption as a Weight Loss Strategy
… to grow in the US, as does the prevalence of overweight and obesity within this group. Several factors may contribute to age-related weight gain, such as a reduced energy expenditure and energy intake requirements, and a susceptibility to energy over-consumption. Serious consequences result …
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Effects of South Korean Market Liberalization on the South Korean Retail Market
… strategy has led its economy to high growth over the last three decades. During 1997, South Korea began to experience a serious financial crisis, including bankruptcies of many of its conglomerates, a drastic depreciation in the international exchange rate of the South Korean currency, and an …
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Personal Experiences of a Capsule Wardrobe
… not discard them so frequently and easily. Moreover, creating different daily outfits through playing around with limited items of the capsule wardrobe provides people with an opportunity to enhance their creativity. The purpose of this study is to examine the personal experiences of a capsule …
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How can the attitudes that Generation-Y hold towards the physical qualities of fast-fashion garments be understood and used to raise awareness and change current patterns of consumption?
The fast-fashion industry is overtly based on a business model that is driven by seasonal trends. These are much shorter than a traditional fashion season. Every month and in some cases twice a week, new stock is delivered into fast-fashion stores (Palomo-Lovinski & Hahn, 2014; Fung Global Retail & …
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