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Wartzman, Emma. "First We Cook." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/363.
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This thesis is an exploration of cooking as a tool for personal health and community building, as well as for larger social change of the American food system. It looks at the decline of cooking in mid-20th century America, due to changes in technology, women's movement into the workforce, and the rise of fast and processed food. It then examines three distinct efforts going on today that are bringing cooking to the forefront of what they do--one in community gardening, one in food access programs, and one in food education. Each demonstrates the unique ability that cooking has to give immediate satisfaction. The lens is then widened to understand how this immediate satisfaction can, in turn, create waves in the way our food is currently produced on a much broader scale.
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Rouse, Elijah. "First-generation and the factors that influence food behavior and perceptions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617108166924414.
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Domingo, Ashleigh. "Household food insecurity and obesity in First Nations communities in Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58409.
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Background: Food insecurity for Indigenous households across Canada is an ongoing challenge and the associated impacts on health and wellness represent an important public health issue. For Indigenous populations living both on and off-reserve, the diet-related health concerns of food insecurity include obesity, poor dietary quality and chronic disease.
Objective: To better understand the factors and processes underlying food insecurity and obesity in First Nations living on-reserve in order to contribute to an evidence-based discussion of strategies for protecting traditional food practices and addressing inequities in health and nutrition.
Methods: Secondary data analysis was conducted from the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES), which applied a cross-sectional study design intended to be representative of First Nations living on-reserve in Canada (south of 60°). Data were analysed from the social, health and lifestyle questionnaire and food security questionnaire components of the FNFNES. Multivariate logistic regression, approached within a holistic framework of First Nations health and wellness, was used to examine the determinants of food insecurity and associations with obesity among individuals living in food insecure households. Analyses were conducted of First Nations communities in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Alberta.
Results: Forty-six percent of First Nations households were food insecure, with 9.5% of households classified as marginally food insecure, 27.9% moderately food insecure and 8.9% severely food insecure. Socio-demographic characteristics significantly associated with food insecurity included age, gender, region, main source of income, years of education, presence or absence of children in the household, road access and household traditional food activity. Rates of obesity were highest among marginally food insecure households (56%). Compared with food secure households, marginally food insecure households had significantly higher odds of obesity (OR 1.5, 95% confidence interval 1.19, 1.97), after adjustments for socio-demographic variables.
Conclusions: The relationship between food insecurity and obesity highlight the need for multifaceted approaches that focus on income and the provision of affordable and accessible healthy foods, with particular consideration for quality and cultural appropriateness. Indigenous food sovereignty provides a promising framework for developing culturally appropriate strategies that enable community capacity to address food insecurity and diet-related health conditions.Medicine, Faculty of
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Lietz, Katherine. "Student Experiences with Food Insecurity at Boston College." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108793.
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Thesis advisor: Juliet SchorThis study aims to understand the prevalence and consequences of food insecurity among four-year undergraduate students at Boston College. It used an anonymous survey to collect data on students’ experiences making financial decisions about food and eating in the Fall of 2019. The final analytic sample consisted of 325 undergraduate students. The study found that roughly 13% of participants were characterized as experiencing food insecurity. Students who received high levels of financial aid and individuals who identified as first-generation college students were more likely to experience characteristics of food insecurity. Students experiencing food insecurity also reported a variety of social, emotional, behavioral, and academic consequences. This study finds that food insecurity is an issue at Boston College and suggests that faculty and administrators should urgently address students’ difficulties ensuring consistent access to food
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Sociology
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Rapley, G. "Spoon-feeding or self-feeding? : the infant's first experience of solid food." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2015. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/14177/.
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Since 2002, the minimum recommended age worldwide for the introduction of solid foods has been six months, an age when most infants are able to bring food to their mouth and chew it, without assistance. Despite this, the practice of spoon feeding with purées remains prevalent and most research to date has examined the introduction of solid foods from the adult’s perspective rather than the infant’s. As a result, factors that may impact on the food preferences of infants, such as the appearance, smell and haptic qualities of food, have not been investigated, nor has the routine use of puréed foods been challenged. Similarly, while differences have been well documented between the processes of breastfeeding and bottle feeding, the possibility that there may be pertinent differences between spoon feeding and self-feeding has not been explored. Overall, the introduction of solid foods has been researched in nutritional terms, rather than in relation to the infant’s experience and his wider learning and development. This study appears to be the first to explore the introduction of solid food from the infant’s perspective. Ten infants were offered a single food, both as a graspable piece and as a spoon-fed purée. The experience was audio/video-recorded and analysed in depth using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Two interviews were conducted with the mother of each infant, during which they were asked to eat the same food, in the same formats, as their infant, and to comment on the audio/video-recording. The findings indicate that spoon feeding and self-feeding are two contrasting experiences. Self-feeding was seen to be characterised by exploratory behaviour, while spoon feeding showed more evidence of avoidant behaviour by the infant and controlling behaviour by the mother. Possible implications for parental and professional guidance and for future research are discussed.
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Thompson, Heather. "Beyond Subsistence: Understanding Local Food Procurement Efforts in the Wapekeka First Nation in Northern Ontario." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38018.
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Abstract: Northern rural Indigenous communities in Canada are facing many challenges getting regular access to nutritious foods, primarily due to the high cost of market food, restricted availability of nutritious foods, and lack of government support for nutritious food programs. The consequences of food insecurity in this context are expressed in high rates of diabetes, heart disease, and childhood obesity. Many Indigenous communities are responding to issues around healthy food access by attempting to rebuild local food capacity in their specific regions. Important first steps have been taken in developing local food initiatives, yet it remains to be seen what impact these initiatives are having on improving northern food security. This paper explores this question by working with a remote fly in community in the sub-arctic region Ontario to construct a hoop house and develop a school based community gardening program. By using a community-based participatory approach, it was determined that hoop house and gardening initiatives in rural, northern settings have the potential to build up local food production; can develop the skills and knowledge of community members; can engage and involve youth in growing local food; and do align with land-based food teachings. We show that despite widespread and multidimensional community hardships, there was considerable community buy-in and support to the project, giving hope for future development, and providing important insight for those seeking to initiate similar gardening, hoop house, or greenhouse initiatives in northern Indigenous communities. Abstract 2: Indigenous peoples of what is now known as Canada have experienced rapid lifestyle changes as a result of European contact. Indigenous food systems were systematically eroded by the Canadian government, leading to extremely high rates of food insecurity, and diet related disease. The complicated dynamics and interventions contributing to the erosion of local knowledges have forced a dependence on a market-based food system in remote and northern Indigenous communities in Canada. Communities are experiencing a double burden of the unaffordability or inaccessibility of traditional foods from the land, and the exorbitantly high cost and reduced availability of quality market foods largely due to the cost of shipping to these regions. The entanglement of local practices and global food systems is multifaceted and complex, thus the solution to food insecurity challenges are met with the burden of navigating both the local and the global. The purpose of this article is to analyze local meanings around food in a remote sub-Arctic First Nation in Ontario within the context of “coloniality” and global food systems. Drawing from the work of Walter Mignolo, and his concept of “border thinking”, this article explains the complex subsistence practices in the Canadian north and how they are located within a larger global framework. We show that by pinpointing potential “cracks” in the dominant Western epistemic as border thinking, a more useful understanding of food procurement strategies can come to light and offer new direction for culturally appropriate and sustainable food initiatives in the North.
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Fusté, Forné Francesc. "Food Journalism: Building the discourse on the popularization of gastronomy in the twenty-first century." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404567.
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El periodisme gastronòmic és una tipologia de periodisme especialitzat que consisteix en la narració de la gastronomia. Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu estudiar la importància de la gastronomia en la premsa diària durant el període 2005-2015 a Catalunya i Espanya, amb una perspectiva comparativa per al cas dels Estats Units. El treball empíric realitzat inclou l’anàlisis de cinc diaris (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia i The New York Times) i està basat en l’estudi de 6,189 articles periodístics. S’ha portat a terme una metodologia tant quantitativa com qualitativa amb l’objectiu de determinar quines són les principals característiques dels continguts gastronòmics i veure com el discurs al voltant de la gastronomia ha evolucionat en la premsa escrita del segle XXI.El periodismo gastronómico es una tipología de periodismo especializado que consiste en la narración de la gastronomía. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo estudiar la importancia de la gastronomía en la prensa diaria durante el período 2005-2015 en Cataluña y España, con una perspectiva comparativa para el caso de los Estados Unidos. El trabajo empírico realizado incluye el análisis de cinco periódicos (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia y The New York Times) y está basado en el estudio de 6,189 artículos periodísticos. Se ha llevado a cabo una metodología tanto cuantitativa como cualitativa con el objetivo de determinar cuales son las principales características de los contenidos gastronómicos y ver como el discurso entorno la gastronomía ha evolucionado en la prensa escrita del siglo XXI.
Food journalism is a special interest journalism that consists on the drawing of narratives with regards to gastronomy. This thesis aims at studying the importance of gastronomy in daily print media during the period 2005-2015 in Catalonia and Spain, with a comparative perspective for the case of the United States. Empirical work includes the analysis of five newspapers (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia and The New York Times) and is based on the study of 6,189 newspapers’ articles. Both a quantitative and qualitative analysis is carried out in order to determine the features regarding the gastronomy contents and how gastronomy news have discoursively evolved in the twenty-first century printed media.
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French, Kellie J. "Remembering, eating, cooking, and sharing| Identity constructing activities in ethnic American first-person food writings." Thesis, East Carolina University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1583681.
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During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increased academic inquiry and scholarly pursuit. However, despite this increased attention, it is still more common to find interpretations of the food that appears in fictional writings than to find critical examinations of creative nonfiction works whose entire thematic focus is food. First-person food writings, like other forms of literature, are not only aesthetically pleasing, they have the power to evoke emotional and psychological responses in their readers. More specifically, ethnic American food memoirs and essays explore important twenty-first century questions concerning identity and the navigation of hybridity.
This thesis considers some of these questions through an investigation of three specific food-related acts in five separate literary works: Remembering in "Cojimar, 1958," from Eduardo Machado's book, Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home, and "Kimchi Blues," by Grace M. Cho; eating in "Candy and Lebeneh," part of Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava, and "Eating the Hyphen" by Lily Wong; and cooking in Shoba Narayan's "A Feast to Decide a Future" and "Honeymoon in America," part of her food memoir, Monsoon Diary.
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Duffett, Rachel. "A war unimagined; Food and the rank and file soilders of the first world war." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499785.
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Patwa, Abhay. "Discrete element method model of the first break wheat milling process." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18668.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Grain Science and Industry
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It is a well-known phenomenon that the break-release, particle size and size distribution of wheat milling are functions of machine operational parameters and grain properties. Due to the non-uniformity in characteristics and properties of wheat kernel, the kernel physical and mechanical properties may affect the size reduction process. The discrete element method (DEM) is a numerical modeling technique that can be used to study and understand the effect of physical and mechanical properties of a material on processing. The overall objective of this study is to develop a DEM model of the 1st break wheat milling process. In this study, different physical and mechanical properties of wheat mill streams were determined for using as the input parameters in DEM model development. The particle size and size distribution (PSD), true, bulk and tapped density, young’s modulus, coefficient of static and rolling friction, and coefficient of restitution were measured for wheat kernel, 1st break and flour from hard red winter (HRW), hard red spring (HRS), and soft red winter (SRW) wheat. Overall moisture content was found to have a greater significant effect on the physical properties i.e. density and PSD of the mill streams than material properties i.e. Young’s modulus, coefficients of friction and coefficient of restitution. The DEM model of 1st break wheat milling was developed using both single and multi-sphere approaches. The single sphere approach simulated the size reduction of a spherical cluster of bonded particles with mono-sized particles. The model was simulated for hard red winter (HRW) wheat milling at 16% moisture levels and validated using lab scale milling trials giving a PSD of 437.73 m with a percent deviation of prediction of 235.37. The deviation of prediction was reduced to 192.29 with a mean PSD of 371.52 m by conducting sensitivity analysis by modifying the shear modulus and coefficient of restitution values. In the multi-sphere approach, a bonded cluster resembling a wheat kernel in shape and size was used to simulate the milling process. The model predicted a 1st break PSD of 412.65 µm which had a deviation of 185.89 from lab scale and 156.78 from plant scale milling. The model could however satisfactorily predict the variation in PSD from 1st break milling with moisture content with reasonable accuracy. Future capabilities using the model include performing additional sensitivity analysis to understand the effect of other mechanical properties of wheat on the 1st break PSD. It can also be used to improve the 1st break release during wheat milling.
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Marushka, Lesya. "Fish Consumption and Nutritional Health among First Nations in Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38453.
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Traditional food is fundamental for the cultural identity, mental and spiritual well-being, and physical and nutritional health of First Nations in Canada. Rapid environment changes including environmental contamination and degradation, climate change, urbanization and industry growth reduce the availability and diversity of traditional foods. This is concomitant with changing lifestyle and an increased prevalence of malnutrition, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the roles of traditional fish consumption for First Nations’ health in the complex interplays between environmental contaminant exposure, climate change, and food and nutrition security. Data collected from the First Nations Food Nutrition and Environment Study were used. The thesis is comprised of seven chapters presented in three sections.
Section 1 addressed the importance of traditional fish consumption for food and nutritional security among First Nations in Canada. With increased income-related food insecurity, First Nations rely more on traditional foods including fish and participate more in fishing and other traditional practices. Nevertheless, many factors such as climate change, governmental restrictions, hydro and forestry operations continue to reduce the availability of traditional fish and access to traditional food sources, land and waterways.
Section 2 explored the associations between locally-harvested fish consumption, long chain omega-3 fatty acid (n-3 FA) intake and dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POP) with type 2 diabetes in First Nations in Canada. Dietary POP exposure was positively associated with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes whereas fish consumption (n-3 FA) showed protective dose-response associations. Furthermore, we found that relatively high POP exposure from fish may outweigh the protective associations of fish on type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the balance of risks and benefits associated with fish consumption is highly dependent on the regional POP concentrations in fish.
Section 3 entailed studies on the nutritional benefits of seafood consumption and modelling potential impacts of the climate-related decline in seafood abundance on the nutritional quality of adult diets and cardiovascular health among coastal First Nations in British Columbia. We estimated that projected climate change may reduce the intakes of essential nutrients by 21%– 31% by 2050 relative to 2000. Moreover, hypothetical substitution of seafood with alternative non-traditional foods would not provide adequate amounts of nutrients. Reduced fish consumption and consequent n-3 FAs intake may increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases in First Nations.
Our findings provide important information for communities, fishery governance, local resource managers and public health professionals to promote traditional food systems, nutritional health, food security, and food sovereignty in Canadian First Nations.
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Futamura, Taro. "Toward the construction of "Kentucky food" in the twenty-first century food localism and commodification of place identity under post-tobacco agricultural restructuring, 1990-2006 /." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/755.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2007.Title from document title page (viewed on March 19, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: x, 285 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-282).
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Futamura, Taro. "TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF "KENTUCKY FOOD" IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: FOOD LOCALISM AND COMMODIFICATION OF PLACE IDENTITY UNDER POST-TOBACCO AGRICULTURAL RESTRUCTURING, 1990-2006." UKnowledge, 2008. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/576.
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This study examines the concept of local food and the discourses surrounding the concept, both of which have played a significant role during Kentuckys agricultural restructuring. Since the mid-1990s, Kentucky farmers who were dependent on tobacco production began to struggle financially after the substantial reduction of quota allotments, and they were encouraged to diversify their agricultural production. Subsequently, practices of producing, marketing, and consuming locally-grown food were implemented. Drawing primarily on qualitative data, this study investigates the meanings of Kentuckys local food discourse development in four dimensions: 1) the political economy of tobacco production and the structural change of Kentuckys agriculture; 2) the role of diverse actors who prompted the adoption of local food; 3) the construction of local scale and micro-scale politics for marketing local food at farmers markets; and 4) the symbolization of local food at county food-related festivals. Kentuckys tobacco production declined not only because of the national anti-tobacco movement, but also because of a constellation of causes including the influence of a free-trade ideology that decreased American burleys competitiveness with global markets, and the increase of part-time farmers that led local tobacco farms to struggle with labor shortages and meeting production demands. Farmers opposition to tobacco controls and their discourses were transformed to attract supporting small food-producing farms, which ultimately merged with societal interests in the production and the consumption of local food. Commoditized local brands at increased direct-sale venues such as farmers markets, however, became political entities as regulations and surveillance were required to maintain their definition of local food. Semiotic interpretation of county food-related festivals in Kentucky shows changes in how people attach their place-identities to agricultural products and how they understand local food. Although the distribution of venues is spatially uneven, the production and the consumption of local food have gradually been adopted throughout Kentuckys landscape over the last decade. To maintain the success of localized markets, this study proposes three potential requirements: 1) the credibility of and the transparency for understanding local food; 2) the resource investment to support future producers; and 3) the expanding adoption of community food security ideals.
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Seabert, Timothy A. "Dietary Markers and Contaminant Exposures Are Correlated to Wild Food Consumption in Two Northern Ontario First Nations Communities." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22829.
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First Nations peoples experience many benefits from eating locally-harvested wild foods, but these benefits must be considered along with the potential risks associated with exposure to environmental contaminants. Unlike store-bought foods, wild foods are an important traditional resource and a significant source of dietary protein, essential minerals and polyunsaturated fatty acids, believed to help in the prevention and treatment of obesity and obesity-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes mellitus. Wild foods continue to be an important and healthy food choice for First Nations peoples; however, they are also a primary source of dietary mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs). To assess the effects of wild food consumption on dietary markers and contaminant accumulation, we grouped individuals from two remote Oji-Cree First Nations communities of north-western Ontario (n=71) according to their level of wild food consumption. In this study, I observed significantly higher organic contaminants in blood and higher mercury concentrations in hair for individuals consuming greater amounts of wild food. Age-adjusted contaminant concentrations were on average 3.5-times higher among high-frequency wild food consumers, with many exceeding federal and international health guidelines for mercury and PCB exposures. Contaminants in these populations approach, and in some cases exceed, threshold levels for adverse effects with potential consequences especially for prenatal development. Here, I also investigated the potential for stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen (δ13C and δ15N) to serve as dietary markers and found strong positive correlations between stable isotopes and frequency of wild food and fish consumption. Frequency of fish consumption and δ15N was also shown to be positively correlated with mercury concentrations in hair and PCB concentrations in plasma. The results of this thesis demonstrate that known differences in dietary behaviour are clearly reflected in stable isotope ratios and contaminant concentrations. The data also show that contaminant exposures to those consuming wild foods in remote Boreal ecosystems is comparable to those associated with serious health effects in industrialized areas, and the problem of contaminants in wild foods is more widespread than the available literature would have led us to believe. These results affect our appreciation of contaminant exposures to First Nations peoples and will have implications for dietary choices, particularly if individuals are encouraged to consume greater amounts of wild foods for their proposed health benefits. We recommend further attention be given to the risks of contaminants in locally-harvested wild foods when promoting the benefits of their consumption to First Nations people as the problem of contaminants in remote communities practicing traditional lifestyles is often underreported and underplayed.
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Almohanna, Amal Sami. "Impact of the American Diet on Newly-Arrived International Students during their first three months at Virginia Tech." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36345.
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Rationale: Published studies have shown that immigrants undergo dietary acculturation which may have positive or negative impact on their health. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate this critical issue of dietary acculturation and any possible influence on the health status of newly arrived international students at Virginia Tech in Fall 2010.Design: In this study weight, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure of 35 international students (age 18-36 years) were determined at three time points, 5-6 weeks apart. Participants filled out a 20-item-questionnaire addressing alteration in the native and American dietary habits. Furthermore, 24 hrs dietary recalls and frequency of consuming the most popular food items in the US was assessed.
Results: Total sample population (TSP) had a significant increase in average weight by 2.79 lbs from visit 1 (V1) to visit 3 (V3) (p=0.0082), Participants who gained weight (PGW; n=10) had an average increase by 9 lbs. Country wise, Chinese had a statistically significant average increase in their weights by 4.16 lbs (p=0.0077) whereas, Indians and Germans had an average increase by 2.36 lbs and 1.28 lbs respectively. Gender wise, the average increase in weight for females was 3.99 lbs (p=0.0015) while for males 1.52 lbs from V1 to V3. There were no significant differences in total caloric consumption from V1 to V3 for both groups of international students. There were no significant changes in the fasting blood glucose and systolic blood pressure from V1 to V3. There was an increase in frequency of consuming high calorie American food items in V3 when compared with V1. Frequency of burger consumption was highly increased in the TSP group while bagels were significantly increased in PGW group. There was an overall increasing trend towards American diet, cooking and eating habits.
Finally, we conclude that the international students are gradually acculturating to the American diet and have impact on their weight which may potentially have a negative impact on their health status. Future studies and orientation program catered to the needs of adjusting to acculturation process of international students are recommended.
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McFarland, Kelly. "Twenty-First Century Local Food Farmers in North Texas: An Evaluation of Farming Methods, Best Practices, and Common Struggles." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609143/.
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Research with local farmers and local food consumers in the North Texas area which captures a contemporary understanding of the challenges and successes present in North Texas local farm-and-food networks. Through ethnographic research methods, including participant-observation and semi-structured interviews, the network of producers and consumers around several farmers' markets were evaluated to understand where the strengths of local food lie, and where networks need development to promote a more stable local food environment. Texas is newer to the trend of farmers' market development, with the local food system developed to foster community, educate, and promote the advantages of locally sourced goods. This research led to the academic discovery of climate adaptive ecological knowledge and farm commodification strategies; which are tools that farmers may use to build greater defense against threats to a farm's livelihood.
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Schlechtriem, Christian [Verfasser]. "The suitability of the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus as alternative live food for first feeding fish larvae / Christian Schlechtriem." Aachen : Shaker, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1170529747/34.
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Elliott, Gary Wayne. "Who's on first unraveling the complexity of the United States' food and agricultural regulatory system in the realm of homeland security /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FElliott.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Bergin, Richard ; Wollman, Lauren. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Homeland security, agriculture, food, defense, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, food safety, food defense, intelligence, model, comparative government, threats, terrorism, food security, conceptual model, Single Food Safety Agency. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143). Also available in print.
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Mii, Akiko Nate Hongkrailert. "Factors related to healthy eating behaviors among first year Mahidol University students in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd400/4937990.pdf.
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Biswas, Margaret Rose. "FAO : its history and its achievements during the first four decades, 1945-1985." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0b79db50-0d09-422e-8a11-d0ef8e9d47c3.
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van, der Vyver Rache. "Development of a food knowledge test for first-year students at a University of Technology in the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/774.
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Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Technologiae: Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition
in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Supervisor: Dr I Venter
Co-supervisor: Ms L du Toit
Cape Town
September 2013Objective: To develop a valid and reliable test to determine the food knowledge of first-year students at a university of technology (UOT) in the Western Cape, South Africa. Design: Two preliminary food knowledge tests were developed covering the content domains, namely fruit and vegetables and fats and oils, as these topics attend to the areas of concern in the dietary intake of young adults. Both tests consisted of multiple-choice questions and incomplete statements compiled following the test item construction rules. The items of both tests were evaluated by experts in the field of food science and nutrition to ensure item content and face validity. Both tests were independently administered to two sample groups represented by knowledgeable students (having food-orientated subjects as part of their course) and less knowledgeable students (not having food-orientated subjects as part of their course syllabus) at a UOT in the Western Cape, SA for the item analysis and test construct validity and reliability determinations. The second preliminary test incorporating three response alternatives was developed as the number of items retained after the item analysis of the first preliminary test incorporating four alternatives was less than the envisaged number of about 20 items. Results: After the item analysis of the first preliminary test (n = 72 items) only 10 and 13 items were respectively retained after two administrations to two sample groups. The second preliminary test (n = 135 items) completed by knowledgeable (n=119) and less-knowledgeable (n=91) student sample groups delivered 74 items after its item analysis across the two content domains, namely fruit and vegetables (n=49) and fats and oils (n=25). The test was found valid, with a significant difference (p < 0.001) in the knowledge scores between the two sample groups (Mann-Whitney test, z = 9.74) and highly reliable (KR20 and Cronbach's alpha= 0.934). Conclusions: The test being a valid and reliable assessment tool can be used to determine the food knowledge of first-year students at a UOT in the Western Cape, SA, across the two content domains to establish if guidance and possible teaching is necessary to equip them with basic food knowledge to support them in their food provision.
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Skjöldevald, Maja. "Small-scale farmers and the shift in the food trading paradigm : – A comparison of two rice supply chains in Babati district, Tanzania." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1729.
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The aim of this study is to find out the dynamics of rice supply chains and their impacts on the small-scale rice producer in Magugu village. The problem addressed in this study is the changes in the food trading paradigm and how it is shaping power relations at a local level. The empirical material in this study has been collected during a fieldtrip to the Babati district in Tanzania from the 25th of February to the 19th of March (2008). The First Mile Project (FMP) in Tanzania had the purpose to teach farmers how to build more equal and efficient supply chains and linking the producer to the consumer. A comparison between a regular rice supply chain and one involved in the FMP was made to explore how the two was forming in the changing food trade paradigm and how the farmers were adapting to this fact. Several methods were employed in this study. These include: case study method, qualitative methods, and secondary data. The results in this study was analysed with the use of the Global Value Chain (GVC) analysis and the Network theory. The conclusion was that depending on how the networks and the power relations within them, actors in the leading position in the GVC determines how the product is going to be: produced, processed, and marketed, at what time and to what price and establish requirements of the GVC. The rice farmers involved in the FMP were the once most able to adapt to the requirements of the GVC and food trading paradigm because of the cooperation among the group and good relations with other actors along the supply chain.
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Smith, James A. "The utilisation of artificial and natural food sources by first feeding fry and small parr of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) reared in freshwater cages." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279644.
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Leibovitch, Randazzo Michael. "Land-Based Food Initiatives in Two Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35714.
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The purpose of this thesis is to describe the harvesting and dietary practices of two rural and remote Indigenous communities. The ethnographic methods of participant observations and semi-structured interviews availed an abundance of rich and detailed data that allowed for a clear understanding of the barriers these two communities face when accessing food. This is an articled-based thesis containing three parts. Part one is composed of a literature review that describes the barriers that have contributed to food insecurity problems in Indigenous communities. It finishes with a chapter dedicated to defining the postcolonial theoretical perspective and describing how and why it was employed during this research process. The postcolonial perspective was chosen to best understand the historical forces that caused food insecurity in Indigenous communities and justify my position as a non-indigenous researcher in the field of Indigenous health. The second part of the thesis is made up of two articles. Article one will describe the current situation of food access challenges and responses in Canada, more specifically in two rural and remote First Nations communities. The article illustrates how both First Nations are experiencing challenges obtaining healthy food from the market and from the land. The article describes what is involved in acquiring food in both communities, and the responses each community is taking to increase food access. The article concludes by pointing out how these initiatives are building more than just food capacity and why they deserve greater external support. The second article is focused solely in the community of Wapekeka, and is entitled The Cost of Local Food Procurement in One Northern Rural and Remote Indigenous Community. The purpose of the article is to provide a specific example of building local food capacity as strategy to address food insecurity. It documents the costs associated with traditional food procurement and compares these costs against the price of food available in the store. The final component of the thesis is the overall conclusion, highlighting the belief that the findings presented in this thesis will promote and emphasize the importance of land-based food initiatives as a way to foster positive health outcomes for all Indigenous peoples.
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Ranga, Leocardia. "The association between dietary fat knowledge and consumption of foods rich in fat among first-year students in self-catering residence at a university of technology, Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2473.
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Thesis (MTech (Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.Objective: To determine the association between the dietary fat knowledge and consumption of foods rich in fat among first-year students in self-catering residence at a university of technology, Cape Town, South Africa. Design: The two concepts – the dietary fat knowledge (represented by dietary fat food knowledge and dietary fat nutrition knowledge) and the consumption of foods rich in fat – were assessed separately. Two norm-referenced, valid and reliable knowledge tests and an intake screening questionnaire were used for the assessments (as subsidiary objectives), before the associations between the concepts were determined (main objective). The dietary fat food and nutrition knowledge as assessed was categorised in the range poor or below average, average and good or above average, and the consumption of foods rich in fat as high, quite high, the typical Western diet, approaching low or desirable. The Pearson‟s chi-square test was applied to these categorical findings to determine if associations (five percent significance) existed between the concepts. Results: The stratified sample included 225 first-year students. Nearly half (48.4%) of them achieved an average fat food knowledge score, while the majority (80.9%) achieved a poor fat nutrition knowledge score. More than half (52.5%) either followed a typical Western diet, a diet quite high in fat or high in fat. While no significant (p > 0.05) association was found between the students‟ dietary fat food knowledge and consumption of foods rich in fat, significant results were found in the association between the students‟ dietary fat nutrition knowledge and consumption of foods rich in fat (p < 0.05) and between their fat food knowledge and fat nutrition knowledge (p < 0.001). Conclusions: An inverse association was found between the students‟ dietary fat nutrition knowledge and fat consumption, a positive association between their dietary fat food knowledge and dietary fat nutrition knowledge, and no association between their dietary fat food knowledge and fat consumption.
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Coleman, Mildred H. (milliecoleman@comcast net). "Recovering Frances Virginia and the Frances Virginia Tea Room: Transition Era Activism at the Intersections of Womanism, Feminism, and Home Economics, 1920-1962." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/29.
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ABSTRACT This work answers the question “Who was Frances Virginia?” by recovering the story of an Atlanta entrepreneur, Frances Virginia Wikle Whitaker, and her tea room foodservice business. It acknowledges “Frances Virginia,” as the public knew her; and focuses on her career as demonstrative of an under‐theorized form of women’s activism. Her education and proclivity in the once all‐female domain of home economics have important characteristics that are under‐ represented, and often misinterpreted, in today’s discourse. I use a womanist theoretical lens within a historical frame to examine her story as a home economist during the tea room movement of the U. S. feminist movement’s Transition Era, 1920s‐1960s. Together, these elements illuminate the significance of Frances Virginia and her particular form of activism.
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Nguyen, Daniel Xuan-Vu. "Pauline Freedom: Idolatry and the Vietnamese Ancestor Cult." Trinity Lutheran Seminary / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=trin1455712662.
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Alfaro, Salcedo Estefany Yanina, Sarmiento Ariana Fernanda Perez, Caceda Miguel Hans Peter Rodriguez, Zegarra Andrea Verónica Rojas, and Daza Piero Angel Santana. "My First Practice – Aplicativo Móvil." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657095.
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El presente proyecto se genera a partir de la preocupación que afecta a muchos estudiantes universitarios de los últimos ciclos que no cuentan con experiencia laboral, debido a los amplios requisitos que solicitan las empresas; la falta de capacitación previa en los procesos de reclutamiento y selección para obtener el puesto de practicante, así como la dificultad de conseguir cursos que se relacionen con su profesión y que sean económicamente accesibles.
Es por eso que nuestro proyecto apuesta por la creación de una aplicación llamada My First Practice, en donde estudiantes de últimos ciclos podrán potenciar sus habilidades y especializarse más en el sector de su interés laboral, a través de la experiencia de estudiantes que ya se encuentran trabajando y, junto a la colaboración de pymes, puedan cumplir con el perfil que las empresas desean.
Este proyecto consta de dos etapas; en la primera etapa se validó el problema mediante entrevistas a nuestro público objetivo y especialistas; la segunda etapa se realizó se validó la solución con la finalidad de conocer si nuestro proyecto resulta ser viable y escalable en su ejecución.
El diferencial de la aplicación My First Practice está basada en su tecnología, una bolsa de trabajo solo con ofertas de pymes, cursos de especialización y el aprendizaje de la mano con estudiantes con experiencia laboral; el conjunto de todas estas características brinda un modelo de negocio que busca facilitar la obtención de las primeras prácticas preprofesionales.This project is generated by the concern that affects many university students of the last cycles who do not have work experience, due to the extensive requirements requested by companies; the lack of prior training in the recruitment and selection processes to obtain the position of practitioner, as well as the difficulty of obtaining courses that are related to their profession and that are economically accessible. That is why our project supports the creation of an application called My First Practice, where final cycle students can enhance their skills and specialize more in the sector of their work interest, through the experience of students who are already working and, together with the collaboration of SMEs, can meet the profile that companies want. This project consists of two stages; in the first stage the problem was validated through interviews with our target audience and specialists; the second stage the solution was validated in order to know if our project turns out to be viable and scalable in its execution. The differential of the My First Practice application is based on its technology, a job board only with offers from SMEs, specialization courses and hand-in-hand learning with students with work experience; the set of all these characteristics provides a business model that seeks to facilitate the obtaining of the first pre-professional practices.
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Newcombe, Lisa Ward. "Foot Involvement in early Rheumatoid arthritis Study (FIRST) : a prospective ultrasound study." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636478.
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Introduction: In early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is a known predilection for foot involvement, which has been shown to persist in patients in remission state. However, disease persistence and its impact on foot involvement in later disease is poorly understood, This is partly due to studies that limit assessment of inflammatory involvement to clinical and radiographic examination. High-resolution musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging is more sensitive and specific at detecting inflammation; however, research applied to the foot and ankle in the field is limited. The relationship between inflammatory and biomechanical factors leading to this persistence is further limited. The aim of this thesis was to improve understanding of disease persistence in the foot using a detailed description of the extent, severity and impact of ultrasound-detectable inflammation in the foot and ankles of patients with early RA, alongside global disease, gait and clinical metrics.
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Byler, Dorvan. "Flee from the Worship of Idols: Becoming Christian in Roman Corinth." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1431446369.
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Jain, Anurag. "The relationship between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British propaganda of the First World War." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1528.
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This thesis resituates the war-writing of Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells in relation to official British propaganda produced during the First World War. Examining these authors' institutional connections with propaganda that was authorised by the British government locates some of their texts within a network of materials that were deployed to justify Britain's involvenlent in the war. The British government, via the War Propaganda Bureau, approached major literary figures to assist in its plan to compete vigorously with Germany to win American support. Positioning Ford's condemnation of Prussian culture within this institutional context reveals that his officially commissioned books functioned as a part of the larger yet-covert government project to influence American intellectual opinion. Although wary that Kipling's chauvinism might offend some readers, the British government reprinted and distributed his denunciations of the 'Hun'. Kipling was given access to censored letters from Indian soldiers in order to assist him in depicting the Imperial forces as united. The result, The Eyes of Asia (1918), was a set of fictional texts by Indian soldiers celebrating French and English civilisation in contrast to German barbarism. In addition to official propaganda, these authors produced pro-war stories, poems, and articles independent of direct government commission. Conan Doyle's formal call for men to volunteer to defend their country, and his public denunciations of German atrocities, were followed by his recruitment of Sherlock Holmes to repel a possible German invasion ("His Last Bow" (1917)). Adding to his support for the war in his journalism and war-time fiction, Wells was appointed the Head of Enemy Propaganda for the newly formed Ministry of Information. He resigned almost immediately following disagreements over government strategy. This project situates historically and examines critically these authors' differing roles in relation to British propaganda efforts during the First World War.
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Saayman, Merike. "Low back pain and front foot hip joint kinematics in Western Province first league fast bowlers." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6811.
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Thesis (MScPhysio)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Aim: The aim of the study was to improve understanding of the hip joint kinematics in cricket fast bowlers and to ascertain whether a relationship exists between hip joint biomechanical parameters, including kinematics, ROM characteristics and lumbar symptoms. Study design: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. Participants: Sixteen adult male fast bowlers between the ages of 18 and 40 years old, playing first-club league, were featured in the study. Main outcome measures: To obtain data with regards to the training history, as well as the nature of lumbar-spine symptoms experienced by the cricket fast bowlers, a newly designed questionnaire was compiled. For analysis of the front foot hip joint ROM and kinematics, the biomechanical equipment used included: a two-dimensional Canon MV950 Digital Video Camcorder, a Kodak EasyShare C310 camera and XSENS Motion Tracking equipment (Xsens Technologies B. V., Enschede, Netherlands). Results: Eight of the sixteen bowlers in our study experienced LBP in the season with seven of these bowlers presenting with recent symptoms most of which are experienced after bowling a spell and described as “tightness” or a “stabbing pain” in the lower back. Intensity of LBP ranged between 1/10 to 8/10. Front foot hip joint kinematics of fast bowlers showed highly individualised patterns of movement between different subjects. Medium amplitude movements in the flexion/extension as well as the rotation plane of movement showed a significant difference in bowlers with- and without LBP. No significant differences between groups with LBP and without LBP were found in the three passive hip ROM measurements. Conclusions: It has proved to be very difficult to improve the understanding of the front foot hip biomechanics in cricket fast bowlers due to the high inter-subject variability. Variability in movement patterns remains under-researched by sports biomechanics. Although decreased hip mobility could alter mechanical forces transmitted to the lumbar spine and therefore predispose or be a causative factor in LBP development, this study found no significant relation between these parameters. The sample size was very small in this study which will influence the validity of results. Our study confirmed the high incidence of LBP and preventative efforts for bowlers should therefore be strongly supported.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Doelwit: Die doelwit van die studie was om die heupgewrig kinematika van krieket snelboulers beter te verstaan en om vas te stel of daar ‘n verwantskap bestaan tussen heupgewrig biomeganiese parameters, insluitende kinematika, omvang van beweging karakter en lumbale simptome. Studie ontwerp: ‘n Deursneë beskrywende studie is onderneem. Deelnemers: Sestien volwasse manlike snelboulers tussen die ouderdomme van 18 en 40 jaar oud wat eerste liga speel maak deel uit van die studie. Hoof uitkoms maatreëls: ‘n Nuut ontwerpte vraelys is opgestel om data aangaande oefen geskiedenis sowel as aard van lumbale simptome wat deur krieket snelboulers ervaar word in te samel. Die biomeganiese apparaat wat gebruik is vir die analiese van die voorvoet heup omvang van beweging, sowel as die kinematika, sluit in: ‘n twee dimensionele Canon MV950 Digitale Video Camcorder, ‘n Kodak EasyShare C310 kamera en XSENS beweging volgende apparaat (Xsens Technologies B. V., Enschede, Netherlands). Resultate: Agt van die sestien boulers in ons studie het lae rug pyn in die seisoen ervaar. Sewe van die boulers het gepresenteer met onlangse simptome waarvan die meeste na ‘n bouler se boulbeurt ervaar is en beskryf was as ‘n “styfheid” of “steekpyn” in die lae rug. Die intensiteit van die lae rug pyn het gewissel tussen 1/10 en 8/10. Voorvoet heup kinematika van snelboulers het hoogs individualistiese patrone van beweging getoon tussen verskillende deelnemers. Medium amplitude bewegings in die fleksie/ekstensie sowel as die rotasie plein van beweging het ‘n beduidende verskil tussen boulers met- en sonder lae rug pyn getoon. Geen beduidende verskille tussen die groep met- en sonder rugpyn is gevind met die drie passiewe heup omvang van beweging meetings nie. Gevolgtrekkings: Dit blyk baie moelik te wees om die voorvoet heup biomeganika in krieket snelboulers beter te verstaan a.g.v. die hoë inter-deelnemer veranderlikheid. Veranderlikheid in bewegings patrone is nog nie genoeg nagevors deur sport biomeganici nie. Alhoewel ingekorte heup mobiliteit meganiese kragte wat deur die lumbale werwelkolom gaan kan wysig, en sodoende die ontwikkeling van lae rug pyn kan predisponeer of ‘n oorsakende faktor kan wees, het hierdie studie nie ‘n beduidende verwantskap tussen die parameters gevind nie. Die steekproef groote was baie klein en dit sal die geldigheid van die resultate beïnvloed. Ons studie het die hoë insidensie van lae rug pyn bevestig en pogings tot voorkomende maatreëls moet daarom ten sterkste ondersteun word.
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Zatkowski, Ellen K. "Living a Legacy: Eleanor Roosevelt as a Role Model for Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2638.
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Thesis advisor: Patrick ManeyAmong American First Ladies, one presidential wife in particular consistently ranks among one of the most influential women to hold the office. Eleanor Roosevelt’s precedent-setting tenure in the White House established a lasting legacy that influenced many of the women who followed her. Two of these First Ladies, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter, are often overlooked in comparative studies of Eleanor Roosevelt with other presidential wives. Scholars typically highlight Hillary Rodham Clinton or Lady Bird Johnson, neglecting the First Ladyships of Ford and Carter. These two women, however, both pointed to Eleanor Roosevelt as an inspiration for their approach to the office. Both Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter incorporated three main components of Eleanor Roosevelt’s impressive legacy into their tenures as First Lady of the United States: an ever-expanding public role, increased independence, and launching initiatives concerned with social welfare to improve the lives of their fellow Americans. All of these actions can be traced back to Roosevelt’s innovative First Ladyship and their appearance in the successive Ford and Carter administrations highlight the interconnectedness of all three First Ladies and their considerable impact on their country both during and after their time in the White House
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Krivonyak, Gregory S. "Assessing the predictive validity of the UAW-Ford Ergonomic Surveillance Tool." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002579.
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Rhodes, Melanie Anne. "Evaluation of Fabrea salina and other ciliates as alternative live foods for first-feeding red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, larvae." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/RHODES_MELANIE_33.pdf.
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Xiao, Yuewen Banking & Finance Australian School of Business UNSW. "Transaction size and effective spread: an informational relationship." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Banking & Finance, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43312.
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The relationship between quantity traded and transaction costs has been one of the main focuses among financial scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the informational relationship between these variables. Following insights and results of Milgrom (1981), Feldman (2004), and Feldman and Winer (2004), we use New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) data and kernel estimation methods to construct the distribution of one variable conditional on the other. We then study the information in these conditional distributions: the extent to which they are ordered by first order stochastic dominance (FOSD) and by monotone likelihood ratio property (MLRP). We find that transaction size and effective spread are statistically significantly orrelated. FOSD, a necessary condition for a "separating signaling equilibrium", holds under certain conditions. We start from two-subsample case. We choose a cut-off point in transaction size and categorize the observations with transaction sizes smaller than the cut-off point into group "low". The remaining data is classified as "high". We repeat this procedure for all possible transaction size cut-off points. It turns out that FOSD holds nowhere. However, once we eliminate transactions at the quote midpoint, the "crossings" between exchange members not specialists, FOSD holds for all the cut-off points fewer than 15800 shares. MLRP, a necessary and sufficient condition for the separating equilibrium to hold point by point of the conditional density functions, does not hold but might not be ruled out considering the error in the estimates. We also find that large trades are not necessarily associated with large spread. Instead, it is more likely that larger trades are transacted at the quote midpoint (again, the non-specialist "crossings") than smaller trades. Our results confirm the findings of Barclay and Warner (1993) regarding the informativeness of medium-size transactions: we identify informational relationships between mid-size transactions and spreads but not for trades at the quote midpoint and large-size transactions. That is, we identify two regimes, an informational one and a non-informational/liquidity one.
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Poletti, Davide. "High fidelity maps of the CMB polarization from the first two campaigns of the POLARBEAR experiment and their statistical exploitation." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC274/document.
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Cette thèse s'intéresse au problème de la production des cartes du fond diffus cosmologique (CMB) en présence du filtrage. Les observations du CMB ont constamment affiné notre compréhension de l'univers au cours des dernières décennies. La caractérisation de la composante rotationnelle de sa polarisation, les modes-B, devrait apporter des informations précieuses sur l'univers primordial et récent, ainsi que sur la physique fondamentale.Afin d'extraire ces contraintes uniques à partir du faible signal des modes B, la qualité et la taillé des données des expériences CMB ont invariablement augmenté. Leur traitement pose de sérieuses difficultés. La reconstruction de la carte du ciel observée réduit par plusieurs ordres de grandeur le volume des données, tout en essayant de préserver l'information cosmologique. Dans ce processus, les données brutes sont généralement filtrées afin d'éliminer les signaux parasites d'origines instrumentales ou astrophysiques. Cette thèse illustre le formalisme permettant d'effectuer des opérations générales de filtrage et de les incorporer dans la procédure de cartographie. Les conditions réalistes dans lesquelles cette estimation non biaisée du ciel peut réussir sont également étudiées, à la fois de manière général et dans le contexte spécifique des expériences au sol. Ce nouveau formalisme a été implémenté dans un code, extrêmement parallélisé, pour la production des cartes. Il est capable de reconstruire le ciel observé de manière fidèle et de caractériser ses propriétés statistiques. La méthodologie et l'outil sont ensuite appliqués à la première et deuxième saison de POLARBEAR, une des expériences de premier plan dans la chasse aux modes-BThis thesis concerns the cosmic microwave background (CMB) map-making problem in the presence of filtering. The observations of the CMB kept refining our understanding of the universe over the past decades. The characterisation of its curl-like polarisation pattern - the so-called B-modes - is expected to convey invaluable information on both the primordial and the late universe as well as on fundamental physics.In order to extract these unique constraints from the faint B-mode signal, the quality and the size of CMB datasets have been constantly increasing, posing serious challenges for data analysis. The reconstruction of the map of the observed sky compresses by many orders of magnitude the data volume, white striving for preserving ail the cosmological information. In this process, the raw data are typically filtered in order to remove unwanted signais of instrumental or astrophysical origins. This thesis illustrates the formalism for performing general filtering operations and for incorporating them in the map-making procedure. The realistic circumstances under which this unbiased estimation of the sky signal can succeed are also investigated, both in general and in the specific context of ground-based experiments. This new formalism has been innplemented in a massively parallel map-making code, capable of producing high fidelity renditions of the sky as well as their detailed statistical characterisation. The methodology and the tool are then applied to the analysis of the first and second season data POLARBEAR, one of the leading experiments in the B-modes quest
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Caro, Pumarica Gianella Rosario, Seminario Kevin Jency Chavez, Arana Adriana Paola Rojas, Mora Daniel Rozas, and Coronel Milagros Leonor Vizarreta. "Al Paso." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655235.
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El siguiente proyecto trata sobre la distribución de productos de primera necesidad para las familias que residen en el distrito de Chaclacayo del nivel socioeconómico A, B y C. En el desarrollo de este trabajo, se realizó entrevistas al mercado objetivo para poder conocer sus preferencias de nuestros futuros clientes, conocer el alcance que podríamos lograr, sus experiencias de compras en las bodegas, supermercados y minimarket y compras mediante redes sociales.
Después de la validación del problema se planteó una solución: AL PASO – La bodega en la puerta de tu casa. El servicio de AL PASO consta de las ventas online de combos con productos de primera necesidad. Además, nuestra unidad con la cual se realizará el servicio de delivery, estará presente en 3 parques estratégicos para realizar ventas de nuestros productos al público en general. El desarrollo de nuestro proyecto se realizó en 2 partes. La primera se validó el modelo de negocio por medio de métodos de investigación cuantitativos y cualitativos.
Por último, se desarrolló el plan de negocios, para lo cual se requiere una inversión inicial de 77,000 solesThe following project deals with the distribution of basic necessities for families residing in the Chaclacayo district of socioeconomic level A, B and C. In the development of this work, interviews were conducted with the target market in order to know their preferences for our future clients, know the scope that we could achieve, their shopping experiences in warehouses, supermarkets and minimarket and purchases through social networks. After the validation of the problem, a solution was proposed: AL PASO - The cellar at the door of your house. AL PASO's service consists of online sales of combos with essential products. In addition, our unit with which the delivery service will be carried out, will be present in 3 strategic parks to make sales of our products to the general public. The development of our project was carried out in 2 parts. The first validated the business model through quantitative and qualitative research methods. Finally, the business plan was developed, for which an initial investment of 77,000 soles is required.
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Gorce, Adélie. "Cosmological signatures of the Epoch of Reionisation." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASP026.
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La réionisation cosmique, pendant laquelle les premières étoiles ionisent les atomes du milieu intergalactique, est encore méconnue. Dans ce travail, je développe des outils permettant d’améliorer l’analyse et l’interprétation des données pour mieux comprendre cette époque. M’intéressant au processus global dans un premier temps, je donne un scénario de référence pour la réionisation, fondé sur quelques hypothèses simples à propos de l’Univers jeune, mené par les galaxies, et qui pour la première fois est en accord avec toutes les données disponibles. Cependant, la réionisation intervient également à de plus petites échelles, et s’intéresser à la façon dont les galaxies ionisent leur environnement immédiat peut nous renseigner sur leurs propriétés physiques. C’est pourquoi dans un second chapitre, j’introduis des outils statistiques innovants qui pourront être appliqués à des cartes d’intensité du signal à 21cm et aux observations à petites échelles du fond diffus cosmologique. Ces méthodes sont conçues spécialement pour l’étude de la réionisation, et plus particulièrement pour être robustes aux contraintes liées à l’observation du signal 21cm. Elles sont disponibles publiquement. Enfin, je présente les limites de mes différents outils, liées à la fois aux méthodes d’observation elles-mêmes, ainsi qu’à des erreurs de modélisation. Avec ce travail, j’ouvre la voie à une analyse cosmologique cohérente des données qui permettra d’obtenir, une fois que la nouvelle génération de télescopes aura donné ses premiers résultats, une compréhension à la fois globale et locale de la réionisation, c’est-à-dire nous renseignant sur l’Univers dans son intégralité, mais également sur la nature de ses premières sources de lumièreThe Epoch of Reionisation, when the first galaxies slowly ionise the atoms of their surrounding intergalactic medium is still poorly known. During my PhD, I have developed new ways to constrain reionisation, in order to improve the analysis and interpretation of current and future observations. Choosing an outside-in approach, I first give a simple, comprehensive history of reionisation, finally able to fit all the available data, where few galaxies perform the full IGM reionisation and based on reasonable assumptions on the nature of the highredshift Universe. However, reionisation is not only a large-scale process, and we can learn about the properties of the first stars and galaxies when looking at how they ionise their immediate surroundings, on scales of a few hundreds of megaparsecs. In this perspective, in a second chapter, I introduce new statistical tools to be applied to small-scale data, from intensity mapping of the 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen to high-multipole CMB observations. These methods are designed to study reionisation, and in particular to be robust to instrumental effects, a central issue of 21cm observations. In the last chapter, I discuss the observations- and modelrelated limitations of current results, by looking at the way poorly known parameters impact our current scenarios of reionisation and by proposing unbiased and efficient observational strategies. In these three years of work, I have developed new tools, designed for the study of the EoR, namely to overcome specific model- and observations-related limitations, and made them available for the community. Doing so, I have paved the way for a clean cosmological analysis of reionisation data. Once next-generation data is available, these methods will give reliable constraints on the global and local history of cosmic reionisation, telling us about the Universe as a whole and about the nature of its early light sources
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Santos, Delgado Angelo Dario. "Análisis de la percepción de los jóvenes de 25 a 30 años del sector socioeconómico “A”, ante el uso de la sinestesia como recurso creativo en la campaña de Coca-Cola “The first print you can hear”." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653666.
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La sinestesia se ha visto involucrada en distintos ámbitos de la sociedad moderna, desde lo psicológico hasta lo artístico, es en este último punto, donde tiene un desarrollo más amplio. Es por esa razón, que siendo la publicidad parte del desarrollo artístico, puede tener como método creativo, el uso de la sinestesia para desarrollar mensajes publicitarios de distintos tipos y de esta forma estimular algunos sentidos del receptor.
El siguiente trabajo, analiza la percepción de jóvenes de 25 a 30 años del sector socioeconómico “A”, ante el uso de la sinestesia como recurso creativo en la campaña de Coca-Cola “The first print you can hear”. El presente análisis, se origina ante el interés de querer indagar como la sinestesia puede llegar a ser un recurso potente en la creación de mensajes publicitarios visuales, el cual, a su vez, dirigido al público objetivo correcto, puede incrementar su afectividad ante la marca. La investigación se posiciona en un paradigma constructivista, ya que, se busca distintas perspectivas de los participantes, del mismo modo, el enfoque es cualitativo porque permite indagar dentro del tema, por medio de recolección de datos en focus group.Synesthesia has been involved in different areas of modern society, from the psychological to the artistic, it is in this last point, where it has a broader development. It is for this reason that, since advertising is part of artistic development, it can have as a creative method, the use of synesthesia to develop advertising messages of different types and thus stimulate some of the senses of the receiver. The following work analyzes the perception of young people between the ages of 25 and 30 from the “A” socioeconomic sector, regarding the use of synesthesia in the Coca-Cola campaign “The first print you can hear”. The present analysis originates from the interest of wanting to investigate how synesthesia can become a powerful resource in the creation of visual advertising messages, which, in turn, directed to the correct target audience, can increase their affectivity towards the brand. The research is positioned in a constructivist paradigm, since different perspectives of the participants are sought, in the same way, the approach is qualitative because it allows investigating within the subject, through data collection in focus groups.
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Nakachi, Higuchi Sadae. "Cambios en la presión intraocular post cirugía de catarata con implante de lente intraocular en cámara posterior en ojos no glaucomatosos, Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Programa Sight First) durante los meses de enero a mayo del 2010." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/14541.
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Publicación a texto completo no autorizada por el autorDetermina si existió variación de la presión intraocular (PIO) en pacientes no glaucomatosos sometidos a cirugía de catarata con implante de lente intraocular en la cámara posterior en el Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Programa Sight First) durante los meses de enero a mayo del 2010.Fue un estudio descriptivo, tipo retrospectivo. Se identificaron 111 pacientes, 49 fueron varones (44,1%) y 62 mujeres (55,9%), predominando el grupo de 68 a 80 años (62,2%), con media de 72,9 años. La media de PIO pre quirúrgica fue 15,8 ± 1,8 mm Hg y la PIO postoperatoria fue de 14 ± 2,9 mm Hg. (p=0,000). La variación de la presión fluctuó entre -14 y 9 mm Hg, con media de - 1,8 ± 3,5 mm Hg (p=0,000), no dependió del tipo de cirugía (p=0,959) ni de la presencia de pseudoexfoliación (p=0,628); pero sí del grado de catarata (p=0,033) y del nivel de PIO preoperatoria, con la que se relacionó inversamente (p=0,0000). Hubo una tendencia con respecto a la profundidad de la cámara anterior (p=0,056). Se encontró reducción significativa de la PIO que no dependió del tipo de cirugía, pero sí del nivel de PIO prequirúrgica y grado de catarata. Hubo una tendencia con respecto a la profundidad de la cámara anterior.
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Justiniano, Navarro Carlos Alberto. "Evaluación del grosor dentinario de primeros molares deciduos a nivel de las paredes de los conductos radiculares en tomografía computarizada de haz cónico." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654956.
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Objetivo: Evaluar el grosor dentinario en el tercio cervical, medio y apical de primeros molares deciduos a nivel de las paredes de los conductos radiculares mediante el uso de tomografía computarizada de haz cónico.
Materiales y métodos: La muestra estuvo conformada por 30 tomografías de haz cónico. La unidad de análisis estuvo compuesta por primeros molares deciduos, los cuales fueron divididos en dos grupos (n=15), el grupo de primeros molares deciduos superiores e inferiores. Para la toma de las medidas del grosor dentinario de las paredes de cada conducto, se realizó 3 cortes de vista axial en la tomografía en el tercio cervical, medio y apical. Luego, cada tercio fue dividido en 4 superficies (distal, mesial, lingual/palatino y vestibular), lo cual sirvió para tomar las medidas y realizar la sumatoria de las 4 superficies del grosor dentinario en milímetros para obtener el promedio final del tercio. Los datos fueron analizados mediante estadística descriptiva (media, mediana, desviación estándar y rango intercuartílico).
Resultado: Se obtuvieron las medias para el grupo del primer molar deciduo superior e inferior, en los cuales se observó medidas diferentes a nivel de los tres tercios y superficies evaluadas.
Conclusión: Es importante tener mayor conocimiento sobre la anatomía del primer molar deciduo, debido a las diversas características que esta presenta en comparación a los molares de la dentición permanente.Objective: To evaluate the dentin thickness in cervical, middle and apical third of deciduous first molars at the level of the root canal walls by using cone beam computed tomography. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of 30 Cone Beam tomography. The analysis unit was made up of deciduous first molars, which were divided into two groups (n=15), the group of upper and lower deciduous first molars. To take the measurements of the dentin thickness of the walls of each canal, 3 axial views were made on the tomography in the cervical, middle and apical third. Then each third was divided into 4 surfaces (distal, mesial, lingual / palatal and vestibular), which served to take the measurements and make the sum of the 4 surfaces of the dentin thickness in millimeters to obtain the final average of the third. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation and interquartile range). Results: The means for the upper and lower deciduous first molar group were obtained, in which different measures were observed at the level of the three-thirds and evaluated surfaces. Conclusion: It is important know more about anatomy of the first deciduous molar, due to the various characteristics that it presents compared to the molars of the permanent dentition.
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Horstink, Lanka. "A global food polity : ecological-democratic quality of the twenty-first century political economy of food." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29856.
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Tese de doutoramento, Sociologia (Sociologia da Ciência e Tecnologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2017Modern food production may be considered an epitome of the paradoxes that humanity is facing as we edge on into the twenty-first century. It is as much the source of problems that plague modern societies as it can be its solution. While more food than ever is produced, more people than ever suffer from some form of malnutrition. Even though agribusiness is overtaking energy as the biggest money maker, small scale farmers and rural populations are still the poorest people in the world. Although food appears cheap, calories are largely outweighing nutrients, creating food deserts in otherwise wealthy countries. Finally, agriculture is potentially as damaging to ecosystems and human health, as it is part of the solution for major social and ecological challenges: biodiversity loss, systemic pollution, gross social and economic inequities, and climate change. The politics of food are a mirror of geopolitics, touching on all the big questions: Grow or degrow? Heed the precautionary principle as heralded in international agreements or continue to "manage" risk? Industrialise and scale up further or switch to a holistic farming practice that places people and the Earth at centre, such as agroecology? Continue to allow the commodification and privatisation of natural resources or protect them as a commons? Allow countries in the Global South to defend their food self-sufficiency or pressure them to produce for global markets? Give consumers a real choice or deny them the right to know? Underlying all these questions are issues of power and conflicts of interest, with some people part of the “haves” and many others of the “have nots”, some scientists embracing ecology whereas others hold on to classical economics, some calling for reform while others prefer a revolution, in other words: with many shades of “green” occupying the wide spectrum of food politics. In my thesis, I contend that a food system that is simultaneously healthy and fair can only be realised in conditions of “substantive” democracy, understood as a polity where social and ecological concerns take precedence over other interests, where common resources are under social control, and all those people affected by decision-making are also the decision-makers. My thesis analyses the democratic and ecological quality of modern food politics to improve understanding of the leveraging factors for achieving such a substantive or food democracy.
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Das, Malay Kumar. "Rebuilding food security in Garden Hill First Nation Community: Local food production in a northern remote community." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32100.
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Garden Hill is a remote fly-in First Nation community in Northern Manitoba with a very high incidence of food insecurity. This study examined food security and food sovereignty of the Garden Hill community by reinvigorating an environmental stewardship-driven food system. This research used community-based participatory research approach, and both qualitative and quantitative research tools to generate data and information. Findings reveal that only 3% households are food secure, 66% households are moderately food insecure, and 31% households are severely food insecure. Once self-sufficient with foods gathered from the local, natural foodshed, the community experienced a radical shift in food habits with a greater dependency on processed market foods. Such transformation in food habit and dietary balance, coupled with limited economic opportunities, made the inhabitants increasingly food insecure and vulnerable to multiple health complications. This research demonstrated the community has potentials for local food production. A pilot agricultural farm collaboratively established with a local social enterprise Meechim Inc. grew local food to help address the food insecurity situation.February 2017
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Zahariuk, Shauna. "Food insecurity within the Island Lake First Nation communities in northern Manitoba, Canada." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23267.
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Conditions of hunger and lack of access to affordable healthy foods exists within Canada. Canada has committed itself to international Declarations, Covenants, and Conventions focused on reducing world hunger; however, it has neglected to address domestic hunger issues.
Using mixed methods, this study quantified food insecurity rates and severity within four First Nation communities in northern Manitoba. The study also explored the communities’ perspectives regarding barriers to healthy eating and potential solutions to addressing this multi-faceted problem.
Results indicate that the four First Nation communities within this study are amongst the most food insecure and hungry within Manitoba and Canada, with 92% of households experiencing some form of food insecurity and 50% of households experiencing severe food insecurity. The research has revealed that solutions for improving food security must be embedded within the realm of food sovereignty and be led by First Nation communities.
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Tu, Yung Hsing, and 涂永幸. "Which One Goes First? Order Effects within Product Attributes on Food Decision Making." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32205493394730699741.
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Will order effects within product attributes bias calorie estimation? In the past, most research discussed about food decision from label, advertisement, taste and package size. This research focused on new perspective to investigate whether order effects within product attributes will bias consumer’s calorie estimation. There are three propose in this study. First, this study investigates the order effect within product attributes in calorie estimation. Second, investigate the role of cognitive load and framing effects in calorie estimation. Experiemnt1 is a one-way anova experimental design to discuss the order effect with product attributes. Experiment 2 is 2（attribute order：Hign-Low / Low-High）× 2（Cognitive load：no / yes）between-subject experimental design. Its purpose is to discuss the interaction effect of cognitive load and order effect. Experiment 3 is 2（attribute order：Hign-Low / Low-High）× 2（message：positive / negative）between-subject experimental design. The research background investigate framing message of its moderator role and interaction effect with order effect. Result from the study1 suggests that order effect of product attributes will bias calorie estimation. These causes from the anchor which consumer will give the priority attribute high weight and deep impression. Furthermore, study 2 demonstrates the order effect will be moderated by cognitive load. When subjects are under condition of cognitive load and time pressure and they do’t have enough cognatine resource to handel the information. This result the order effect will be mush stronger and result in wrong calorie estimation. In contact, study 3 investigate the order effect will be moderated by framing. It suggest that negative framing will more effective than positive framing when elaboration is high and the thinking process mitigate the order effect within product attributes.
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Skinner, Kelly. "Prevalence and perceptions of food insecurity and coping strategies in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7561.
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Background: Food insecurity has been described as an urgent and pervasive public health issue for Aboriginal people (First Nations [FN], Métis, and Inuit) in Canada. However, national health surveys have generally excluded a large portion of the Aboriginal population (FN living on-reserve and Inuit), resulting in limited data on food insecurity in these individuals and communities. In addition, scales for measuring food insecurity have not been validated in Canadian Aboriginal populations. Food security challenges faced by Aboriginal people living in remote communities are unique and few studies have examined the perceptions of and coping strategies for food insecurity in this population.
Objectives: The overall objective of this research was to explore various aspects of food insecurity (prevalence, perceptions, and coping strategies) in the remote, on-reserve First Nations community of Fort Albany, Ontario. This thesis consisted of five studies conducted in Fort Albany. The objectives for Study I were to quantitatively measure the prevalence of food insecurity using the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) and to use two qualitative interview questions to evaluate the relevance of the HFSSM. Study II used qualitative interview questions to examine the perceptions of and coping strategies for food insecurity. Studies III and IV investigated two programs in Fort Albany that had the potential to affect food security: the school snack program and a greenhouse project. Study III assessed the impact of the school snack program on student food intake. Study IV was a descriptive case study of the context and implementation of a community greenhouse project. Study V involved the development and formative evaluation of supplemental questions for the HFSSM intended to be relevant for measuring food security in First Nations households.
Methods: One adult from each household in the community was invited to complete the 18-item HFSSM, demographic questions, and an interview with questions on the relevance of the HFSSM for First Nations food security and strategies used to cope with food insecurity. To evaluate the snack program, 24 hour diet recall data were collected using the Waterloo Web-based Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (WEB-Q) in November 2004 and December 2007 with grade six to 10 students attending Peetabeck Academy in Fort Albany. Food group consumption and nutrient intake of students participating in the school snack program were compared with students who chose not to participate. Five additional questions asked students about their participation, preferences, and impressions of the snack program. Data sources for the greenhouse project included semi-directed interviews with a purposive and snowball sample of community key informants, direct observations, written documentation, and photo-documentation. The case study was carried out over a period of 33 months; from early 2009 until October of 2011. The supplemental questions for the HFSSM were drafted based on themes that had emerged from the evaluation of the relevance of the HFSSM and relevant literature. Feedback on the importance, clarity, and cultural appropriateness of each proposed question was gathered from key informants (n=12) working on food security issues with Aboriginal groups, using an online survey.
Results: For the HFSSM study, of 64 households (87% response), 70% were food insecure, 17% severely and 53% moderately. The prevalence of food insecurity in households with children was 76%. Among respondents from homes rated as having severe food insecurity, all (100%) reported worrying that food would run out; times when food didn’t last and there wasn’t money to buy more; and times when they couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals. When asked about the relevance of the HFSSM, the majority of respondents felt the HFSSM did not fully capture an accurate picture of food security for their situation. Aspects missing from the HFSSM included the high cost of market food and the incorporation of traditional food practices. For the coping strategies study, a thematic analysis of interviews (n=51) revealed that food sharing, especially with family, was regarded as one of the most significant ways to adapt to food shortages. The majority of participants reported consuming traditional food (wild meats) and suggested that hunting, preserving and storing traditional food has remained very important. However, numerous barriers to traditional food acquisition were mentioned. Other coping strategies included dietary change, rationing and changing food purchasing patterns. In order to improve access to healthy foods, improving income and food affordability, building community capacity and engagement, and community-level initiatives were suggested. Findings from the school snack program study showed that students participating in the snack program had significantly higher intakes from specific food groups and related nutrients compared to those who did not participate. With the exception of Meat and Alternatives in 2004, there was a trend for a higher percentage of students to meet dietary recommendations if they participated in the snack program. Students indicated that the three things they liked most about the school snack program were the juice, that the program kept them from feeling hungry at school, and that they got a snack at school every day. Students indicated that the snack program helped them to eat healthier by motivating them, eating more fruit, and making better dietary choices. Qualitative analysis of the greenhouse case study data generated gardening related themes: seasons, fertile ground, sustainability, gardeners, ownership, participant growth, and sunshine. Amongst the gardeners, local champions were critical to project success. Positive outcomes included the involvement of many community members, a host of related activities being carried out, and that the greenhouse had introduced an opportunity to gain knowledge about growing plants in a northern greenhouse setting. For the study on measuring food security in FN households, valuable feedback was provided by key informants (n=12) on clarifying the wording of the questions as well as providing perspectives on how the questions may or may not be applicable to different Aboriginal populations. A revised list of questions was created that incorporated the feedback from key informants.
Conclusions: A very high prevalence of household food insecurity was reported in this community with the prevalence especially high in households with children. On-reserve remote FN communities may be more susceptible to food insecurity than off-reserve Aboriginal populations. Findings point to the continued importance of traditional food acquisition and food sharing, as well as community solutions for food systems change. These data highlight that traditional and store-bought food are both part of the strategies and solutions participants suggested for coping with food insecurity. Given the positive impact of the school snack program on the food and nutrient intake of student participants, it is clear that school snack programs can be an important venue to address the nutritional vulnerability of FN youth living in remote communities. Community and school greenhouse projects require local champions to be successful and foster community participation and ownership. Implementing a greenhouse project can engage community members, including children, and provide a great learning opportunity for gardeners in a remote, northern community. Finally, input from community participants and experts suggest additional questions that may add relevance to food security questionnaires for FN populations. Data highlight the urgency for public health policies and initiatives that promote food security for vulnerable FN populations. Findings can be used to inform assessment and program planning activities and to advocate for policies at the local, provincial and federal levels to strengthen community food security.
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Aulinger, Maximilian. "Presence, practice, resistance, resurgence: understanding food sovereignty within the context of Skownan Anishinaabek First Nation." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30338.
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One of the defining characteristics of early European colonial endeavours within the Americas is the discursive practice through which Indigenous peoples were transformed into ideological subjects whose proprietary rights and powers to be self-determining were subordinated to those of settler peoples. In this thesis, it is argued that a similar process of misrepresentation and disenfranchisement occurs when it is suggested that the material and financial poverty plaguing many rural First Nations can be eradicated through their direct and extensive involvement in natural resource extraction industries based on capital driven market economies. As is shown by the author’s participatory research conducted with members of Skownan Anishinaabek First Nation involved in local food production practices, the key to overcoming cycles of dependency is not simply the monetary benefit engendered by economic development projects. Rather it is the degree to which community members recognize their own nationhood oriented value systems and governance principles within the formation and management of these initiatives. The thesis concludes with an examination of one such community led enterprise in Skownan, which ultimately coincides with the political aims of the Indigenous food sovereignty movement.
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Chiu, Ming-ying, and 邱明瑩. "A study on team leadership competencies of first-line managers: western fast food chain stores." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01805144553851877687.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the possession degree of team leadership competencies of first-line managers. The research methods utilized in the study include literature reviews, expert and the questionnaire investigation. The research subjects for data collection are based on western fast food chain stores from yearbook of chain store of 2002. 275 companies were selected by using random sampling and 98 valid questionnaires were collected. The data was analyzed using frequency distribution, percentage, mean, t test, one-way ANOVA, Welch test and Scheffe’s method. The study concludes with the following findings：(1)team leadership competencies contain 9 dimensions and 54 items, (2) first-line managers possess team leadership competencies, (3)first-line managers from different seniority, educational background, age, and gender demographic valuables have differences on team leadership competencies.