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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"overconsumption"”.
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Overconsumption, Animal Welfare, and Christian Ethics: Conflicting Values and the Urgent Challenges of Our Time
Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάζει την πολλαπλή επιρροή που έχει στην ευζωία των ζώων ο υπερκαταναλωτισμός που διακατέχει την σύγχρονη ανθρώπινη κοινωνία, και τους τρόπους με τους οποίους αυτό έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τη Χριστιανική Ηθική αναφορικά με τη μεταχείριση των ζώων. Μελετώνται οι ανωτέρω …
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Integration of Homeostatic and Hedonic Brain Centers in the Regulation of Feeding Behaviors
… feeding behaviors, namely pathological overconsumption of high-fat food. Pathological overconsumption of high-fat food is potentiated by aberrant homeostatic feeding behavior (i.e. titration of caloric intake), which typically associates with hypothalamic brain nuclei, specifically the …
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Towards Mindful Consumption
… considers climate change at one of its sources: overconsumption. The thesis examines the history of consumer culture to identify the causes of our current excessive consumption patterns. Through analyzing the influences that advertising and culture have on our behavior, this thesis aims to …
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Psychosocial factors associated with female problematic and binge drinking in a South African rural and urban setting
The overconsumption of alcohol is one of the leading preventable causes of many adverse health, psychological, and social problems. Alcohol consumption patterns for South Africa from various findings were reported and compared to global levels and patterns. It was illustrated that psychosocial …
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Doing More with Less: A Quantitative Analysis of Mindfulness, Meditation, Sustainable Consumption Awareness and Practice among University Undergraduates
… <p>Climate change, overconsumption, air, and water pollution continue to be pressing issues for society. Given the significant impact of overconsumption, the search for strategies to promote more sustainable behavior has become a topic for investigation. Universities …
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Three essays in sustainable operations management with implications for the triple bottom line
… 2004). Two key causes of this overshoot are the overconsumption of natural resources, and the reluctance or inability of society to remedy this overconsumption through the appropriate use and deployment of technology and management practices. In this light, the work contained in this dissertation …
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Prepartum Energy Intake and Its Relationship to Periparturient Inflammation and Metabolic Dysfunction in Dairy Cows
… and largest day effects between d -14 and d 1. Overconsumption of energy was linked to inflammatory markers studied in these experiments. A relationship between postpartum liver lipid accumulation and inflammation was observed. Avoiding overconsumption of energy prepartum improved metabolic …
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Adipocyte hyperplasia and fat deposition in high-weight and low- weight chickens
… consumption. In Experiment I, forced caloric overconsumption increased weight gain and fat deposition, with concomitant increases in the total adipocyte DNA content of the assayed fat depots. Injections of DNA-specific [methyl³H] thymidine resulted in higher radioactivity levels in the fat …
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The influence of satiety mediators and dietary intake on food addiction in obese women prior to sleeve gastrectomy: a pilot study
… the perceived value of food reward resulting in overconsumption of highly palatable food. The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of fasting leptin and ghrelin and dietary intake on FA in obese women before vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG). Seventeen morbidly obese females were …
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A neural and behavioural investigation of aberrant feeding in animal models of autism spectrum disorder
… meal. In Specific Aim 2, I examined whether the overconsumption of sucrose observed in male Cntnap2-/- mice also occurs in females. Research on ASD animal models often focuses on males due to concerns about oestrus driven behavioural variability and the subtler presentation of ASD-related …
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The Behavioral Effects of Temporary Inactivation of the Lateral Habenula on Free Feeding
Overconsumption, or eating beyond the point of homeostasis, is a key feature in the development of obesity. Although people are consuming beyond the point of homeostasis, they are not consuming constantly or indefinitely. Thus, there is likely a mechanism that acts to terminate periods of food …
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Thylakoid membrane from spinach - effect of processing on their function as appetite suppressing ingredient
… and fat, that subsequently increases the risk of overconsumption and possibly leads to overweight and obesity. Therefore an approach to strengthen the inherent satiety for fat can be used to prevent overconsumption. Thylakoid membranes isolated from the chloroplast of green leaves have been found …
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We All Want to Change the World: How Behavioral Insights Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
… rational agents led to the normalization of overconsumption and environmentally destructive behavior. In the 1980’s, economists began systematically exposing universal shortcomings in human rationality, many of which directly contribute to unsustainable levels of emissions. Incorporating …
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Interrogation of Neuromedin U Receptor 2/Neuromedin U as a Novel Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Obesity
… is a disease commonly characterized by an overconsumption of energy dense foods leading to an increase in adiposity. The rate at which obesity is growing has demanded a better understanding of the disease and better pharmacotherapies. Currently, the pharmacotherapies available to treat …
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Cycles of Making and Memory
… reconsidered within a contemporary context of overconsumption. The work engages with cycles of material transformation, making, and emotional experience. These processes reflect historical, contemporary, and emerging layers of meaning which gradually accumulate over time. Through this practice, …
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An Investigation into the Role of Arf6 in MCH-mediated Rearrangements in 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes
… metabolize the energy that we consume. Chronic overconsumption can lead to the activation of inflammatory responses and metabolic dysregulation, such as insulin resistance, and promote the obese condition. The pathways involved in the motility of pre-adipocyte cells are important in …
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Širdies ir kraujagyslių ligų epidemiologinių veiksnių ir genomo sąveikos tyrimas /
… and grain products, fish and fish products, overconsumption of meat and meat products. In our studied Lithuanian population we found a higher than recommended cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides concentration levels, the prevalence of dyslipidemia was 94.2 …
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Investigation of relation between the epidemiological factors of cardiovascular diseases and genome in the Lithuanian population /
… and grain products, fish and fish products, overconsumption of meat and meat products. In our studied Lithuanian population we found a higher than recommended cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides concentration levels, the prevalence of dyslipidemia was 94.2 …
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