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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"sweetness"”.
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Floating sweetness
This sinfonietta explores the rare and deeply human experience of being truly understood. The composition reflects an emotional journey between solitude and connection, hesitation and trust, and the gradual emergence of shared resonance. Inspired by the philosophy of Chinese art forms, the work …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
This thesis examines the surveillance and respectability politics involved in the depiction of Black children in picture book text and images, focusing particularly on the representation of Black children as food. My corpus of texts consists of six picture books by five different Black creators: …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
Abbesses in Medieval Europe demanded not just the obedience of their own nuns, but of any dependent communities, male or female. The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the …
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Uncoupling sweetness and energy in habitual high and low consumers of artificial sweetners: effects on appetite
In the natural world, sweetness as a taste is almost always found in association with energy. Associated with energy and the physiological effects of energy, sweetness can exert a number of effects on appetite. With the development of artificial sweeteners however, sweetness and energy can be …
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The rheological effect of hydrocolloids on selected attributes of a lemon flavored beverage containing artificial sweeteners
… sweetened with artificial sweeteners. Perceived sweetness may be affected by other food ingredients, such as hydrocolloids. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of xanthan gum, carboxymethyicellulose-low, and carboxymethylcellulose-medium on the attributes of a lemon flavored …
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Using NMR to Probe Solute Mobility and Its Relationship to Functionality and Sensory Characteristics of Carbohydrate-Containing Systems
… between molecular mobility and the perceived sweetness of sucrose, fructose, and glucose solutions was investigated. At the same molar concentration, the translational mobility of water was highest in the fructose, followed by the sucrose and glucose solutions. The maximum sweetness intensity …
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Taste Perception of Multicomponent Fat-Free Liquid Food Systems
… 3 dimensions (represented primarily by thickness/sweetness, saltiness, and bitterness) to differentiate samples. Thickness and sweetness strongly represent the first dimension. Although saltiness and bitterness are important in the second and third dimensions, they do not strongly represent the …
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Flavour quality factors and its regulation in red raspberry (rubus idaeus)
… datasets were correlated to sensory scorings (sweetness, sourness and flavour intensity) of progenies in the mapping populations, via statistical regression analyses (PLS-1), in order to identify factors most responsible for variances in flavour traits. Genetic explanations of flavour quality …
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Determining the effect of gradual sugar reduction on liking of sweetened iced tea
… ideal level, and the highest acceptable level of sweetness in iced tea. Sixty-two participants who consumed sweetened tea at least three times per week were enrolled in this three-phase study: an initial taste test, a 12-week repeated consumption phase, and a final taste test. At the initial and …
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Evaluation of a Maltodextrin Gel as a Partial Replacement for Fat in a High-Ratio White-Layer Cake Formulation
… corn syrup-90 (HFCS-90), adjusted for sweetness in each treatment, were evaluated in a high-ratio white-layer cake formulation. Two controls were used to compare to fat-replaced cakes: control A (100% fat with 100% sucrose) and control B (100% fat with 50% sucrose/50% HFCS-90), which …
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Evaluation of sweet taste perception in habitual and non-habitual consumers of low-calorie sweeteners
… perception, prefer higher concentrations of sweetness, and adapt faster or to a greater degree when repetitively tasting sweet stimuli compared to non-habitual LCS consumers. A secondary aim of the study was to understand the benefits of combining sucralose with glucose (as is found in …
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University of Toledo Students' Reaction to African American Vernacular Features: Do Phonological Features Matter?
… and education) and attractiveness (kindness, sweetness, likability, and friendliness). Results indicated that speakers who exhibit SAE were more favorably evaluated than speakers who exhibit AAVE. These findings demonstrated that speakers' accents affected listeners' judgments about them.
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Effects of vermicomposted spent mushroom compost on growing medium characteristics, plant growth, yield and abiotic stress tolerance
… fruit quality parameters such as acidity and sweetness. Fruit sweetness, as measured using Brix value, was significantly increased in fruits grown with 10% or 20% vermicompost addition by 0.2 in truss one and 0.3 in truss two. Fruit acidity (% citric acid) was significantly increased in plants …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
… the Spy</em>, and Alan Bradley’s <em>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</em> provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable young girls living in a mid-20th century environment and successfully subverting patriarchal norms. Drawing on Laura Mulvey’s theory on women as …
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The geography of sinfulness: mapping Calvinist subjectiving between word and image
… text argues that despite Edwards’ rhetoric of ‘sweetness’, the geography of sinfulness that both pervades and varies within Edwards’ language, creates a Calvinist subjectivity, as it filters through the word/image dialectic, that becomes trapped within Edwardsian rhetoric, and, in turn, …
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A pilot study on the effects of bariatric surgery on flavor perception and eating bevahior 2-5 years post-surgery
… experience a decreased hedonic response to sweetness. However, questionnaire studies suggest this effect might be attenuated long-term. Additionally after receiving such surgeries, individuals experience reductions in problematic eating behaviors, such as emotional eating and frequency of …
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Variations in Consumer Rejection Thresholds of Water Samples Including Mixed-Berries Flavors
… liking and Just-About-Right attributes (flavor, sweetness, bitterness, and sourness). When taking away a control, a CRT was not met, although the CRT was met (CRT= 0.033 μg/mL) in the presence of the control option. While overall liking decreased with flavor concentrations, only the strongest two …
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The Effect of Lipid/Hydrocolloid Coatings on the Postharvest Storage Quality of 'Golden Delicious' Apples
… no significant differences (P>0.0083) in the sweetness, tartness, and appearance of all of the groups. Overall, the derived coatings could serve as a resource for extending and maintaining the shelf life of perishable fruit.
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