... consumer’s preference and consumption of organic products The Model and Methods A sample of 200 consumers was drawn randomly from rural and urban locations in the two main regions of the Eastern Cape, ... the management of illness (35.4% of consumers); (iii) They have a better appearance and taste (30.8% of the consumers) and (iv) they are safe to consume (27.7% of the consumers) and because they ... Tunçer, and Thidell (2004) state that independence of the verification and certification of organic products impacts positively on the consumer’s confidence of the product and is an indication of...
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... responses to married and unmarried young peoples RH needs, and into the design of services and information that are accessible and acceptable to the diverse needs of young men and women of all socio-economic ... articulate the diversity of needs of young people; • Promote the concept and practice of reproductive rights; and • Are gender-sensitive in addressing RH needs and rights of young people Institutional ... Strategy” needs to be strongly linked with the “Adolescent and Youth Strategy” and “FP and RH Strategy” recently adopted by the MOHP • Assessment of the SRH needs of different groups of young...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
Assessing consumer awareness and usage of food labels and influences on food buying behavior
... 1997 Food and Nutrition Information: A Study of Sources, Uses, and Understanding British Food Journal, 99(2): 42-44 Bender M.M., and Derby B.M., 1992 Prevalence of reading nutrition and ingredient ... to consumer awareness and the use of information provided on food labels (Food Marketing Institute, 1989; Bender and Derby, 1992; Wandel, 1997) For example, the study of Wandel (1995) shows that ... years (11%); and more than 65 years (5%) Around 38% had annual income between Rs 1,00,000 and 2,49,999, 35% between Rs 2,50,000 and 4,99,999, and 10% between Rs 5,00,000 and 7,99,999 Of the remaining...
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 16:55
Consumer awareness and usage of nutrition
... review and hypotheses We then present the methodology and the findings Discussions of key findings, conclusions and managerial implications follow Finally, we present limitations of the study and ... relates to consumer awareness and usage of nutrition information in Botswana The study is descriptive and seeks to provide further insights into consumer awareness and usage of nutrition information ... health officials of the connection between nutrition and good health it is surprising that most studies report relatively low usage of nutritional information on food products In a study of French...
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consumer categorization and evaluation of ambiguous products
... been mixed with some successes and some failures and a lack of understanding of the underlying reasons for these successes and failures Hence, a better understanding of how consumers evaluate ambiguous ... absence of knowledge of consumer ratings of both categories Hence, it is important to understand the effect of categorization on sets of attributes of both categories in order to understand the ... success of some ambiguous products and the failure of others have added to the confusion surrounding these products and consumer reactions to them In the absence of a clear understanding of the...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:26
Chapter 4: Getting Images into and out of Photoshop
... border to clean up the edges of the selected area of color ߜ Smooth: When you click with the Magic Wand to make a selection of an area of color, you might see all kinds of tiny 1- or 2-pixel areas ... again, and repeat a number of times to create a series of paw prints marching into the distance Figure 8-14: The many faces of transformations The mask-related selection commands At the bottom of ... terms as you read about the various tools and commands with which you make selections Both feathering and anti-aliasing make the edges of your selections softer by using partially transparent or...
Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2012, 14:35
Development of indicators on consumer satisfaction and Pilot survey
... affordability, competitiveness of pricing, profitability of services (for banking and insurance), transparency of the pricing structure, easiness of the payment mechanisms and correctness of the invoices For ... Analysis and reporting: standard and model-based The finalisation of the methodology and the preparation of this final report were carried out in the period September–November 2004 Development of consumer ... introduce and define a number of terms and concepts This is important in view of the interpretation of the results, since there is no universally agreed definition or interpretation of many of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 11:54
Tài liệu Manual on the Production and Use of Live Food for Aquaculture - Phần 4 pptx
... outputs, not only in terms of survival, growth and success of metamorphosis of many species of fish and crustaceans, but also with regard to their quality, e.g reduced incidence of malformations, improved ... screening of candidate strains and of eventual local populations, as well as the study of prevailing environmental conditions Uncontrolled introduction of Artemia may thus lead to a decrease of natural ... America, Asia, Australia and Europe A knowledge of the characteristics (both genotypic and phenotypic) of a particular batch of cysts can greatly increase the effectiveness of its usage in a fish...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The Arabidopsis protein kinase Pto-interacting 1-4 is a common target of the oxidative signal-inducible 1 and mitogen-activated protein kinases docx
... GSTlofMPK6 However, when lofMPK3 and lofMPK6 proteins were tested for phosphorylation with OXI1, no phosphorylation of lofMPK3 or lofMPK6 was observed (Fig 5A) On the other hand, when OXI1K45R or ... GST-MPK3 and GST-MPK6 or recombinant kinase-inactive GST-lofMPK3 and GST-lof MPK6 were mixed with either HIS-OXI1K45R (OXI1K45R) or HIS-PTI1-4 (PTI) in kinase buffer and [c-32P]-ATP For (A) and (B) ... MPK3 and MPK6 proteins as substrates Because the purified GST-MPKs showed autophosphorylation activity, loss -of- function (kinase-inactive) forms of the MAPKs were produced as GST-lofMPK3 and GSTlofMPK6...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment - Subgroup Report on the Lowermoor Water Pollution Incident pdf
... Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority and the Lowermoor Liaison Group, which included members of the local community, representatives of South West Water Authority (SWWA) and officers of the ... practitioners and council officers The occurrence of cases of leukaemia in Camelford in 1996, and the investigation of possible causes led to a further round of consultation with the local community and ... Lowlands and St Minver Highlands 259 Appendix 7*: Water quality data for the parishes of Camelford and Davidstow, 1989 259 Appendix 8*: Water quality data for the parishes of St Teath, Tintagel and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Defining Needs and Managing Performance of Installation Support Contracts pptx
... broader statements of needs, refinement and reduction of performance metrics, xiv Defining Needs and Managing Performance of Installation Support Contracts and contractual and informal incentives ... identify and implement better and less costly ways of satisfying their service needs Statements of needs and contracts that describe what is needed, rather than how those needs should be met, and ... management of company stores and warehouses, and coffee service Custodial and janitorial services include cleaning windows and carpets, pressure washing, and construction cleanup Groundskeeping and landscaping...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Functional hierarchy of plasminogen kringles 1 and 4 in fibrinolysis and plasmin-induced cell detachment and apoptosis docx
... Glu-Pg- and mAb A10.2-treated cells; lane 6, Glu-Pg- and mAb 34D3-treated cells Bands in lanes and correspond to forms I and II of plasmin(ogen) High molecular weight bands in lanes and correspond ... were starved of serum and then incubated with varying concentrations of Glu-Pg (0–2 lm) and a fixed concentration (0.75 mm final concentration) of CBS0065 in a total volume of 100 lL of Ham-F12 medium ... Kinetics of plasmin formation performed on cells (main figure) and fibrin (inset) in the presence of varying concentrations of mAb A10.2 or mAb 34D3 (0–1 lM for cells and 0–0.25 lM for fibrin) and fixed...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Specific targeting of a DNA-alkylating reagent to mitochondria Synthesis and characterization of [4-((11aS)-7-methoxy-1,2,3,11a-tetrahydro-5H-pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepin-5-on-8-oxy)butyl]-triphenylphosphonium iodide doc
... potential, and addition of a TPP-moiety has been used to drive the selective uptake of a wide variety of Ó FEBS 2003 Fig Selective uptake of mitoDC-81 by mitochondria and subsequent alkylation of mtDNA ... mitochondria and cells In addition to facilitating the development of antigenomic therapies, such a reagent might also be useful in investigating the rate of turnover of mtDNA and in the derivation of ... cells The reasons for the lack of alkylation of mtDNA within mitochondria by mitoDC-81 are unclear The local concentrations of mitoDC-81 and DNA, and the duration of the experiments were ample...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A novel meta-cleavage dioxygenase that cleaves a carboxyl-groupsubstituted 2-aminophenol Purification and characterization of 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoate 2,3-dioxygenase from Bordetella sp. strain 10d doc
... 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene and pyrogallol) in aqueous solution were always freshly prepared and used immediately Effect of various compounds on the enzyme activity The effect of metal salts, and chelating and sulfhydryl ... ± 0.10 lmol of 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid and 0.90 ± 0.08 lmol of O2 were consumed and 1.1 ± 0.02 lmol of 2,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid was formed, which indicated a molar ratio of 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic ... with a linear gradient (0–0.4 M) of NaCl in 900 mL of buffer A Fractions of mL were collected at a flow rate 40 mLÆh)1 The protein concentration and enzyme activity of the fractions were assayed...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 4 doc
... account of the number of the enemy and of the nature of the command enjoyed by its general The army now opposed to us consisted of the troops or quotas of five great chiefs, each consisting of 10,000 ... both dressed and undressed, sandals, manufactures of the roots and fibres of nequen, and so forth In one place great numbers of male and female slaves were exposed for sale, most of whom were ... of Cortes, crying up his generosity to the skies, and made a magnificent report of the riches of our soldiers, many of whom had ornaments of gold on their arms, and some of them gold chains and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The metabolic role and evolution of L-arabinitol 4-dehydrogenase of Hypocrea jecorina potx
... proof for an involvement for the enzymatic reaction of Lad1 and could also be due to an indirect effect of lad1 knockout on the regulation of other genes On the other hand, the lack of growth of ... relationships of H jecorina Lad1 Reactions of Lad1 as established experimentally in this work Oxidation of polyols was studied at pH 8.6 and reduction of ketoses at pH 7.0 Oxidation of D-gulitol and L-talitol ... yielding a Km and Vmax of 80.7 mM and 0.20 nkatÆ(mg protein))1, respectively Enzymatic conversion of hexitols and ketohexoses by Lad1 The identification of L-xylo-3-hexulose as the product of the oxidation...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Purification and properties of a new S-adenosyl-Lmethionine:flavonoid 4¢-O-methyltransferase from carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) pot
... the method of Baayen and Elgersma [13], with a 500-lL drop of Fod conidial suspension at a concentration of · 106 conidiaÆmL)1; 20 additional plants, inoculated with a 500-lL drop of double distilled ... NaPi buffer, pH 3, and acetonitrile (6 : 1, v/v); separation was performed isocratically, at a flow rate of mLÆmin)1, and the volume of injected samples was 10 lL The amounts of the residual initial ... by the addition of two drops of 10 M HCl Aliquots of each reaction mixture were analyzed through column chromatography [7] to separate and purify both the assayed substrates and the respective...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
UNIT 2. UNDERSTANDING NEEDS AND ASSESSING OPPORTUNITIES LESSON 4. SKILLS AND RESOURCES FOR AN ONLINE COMMUNITY doc
... Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources for an online community - page The total cost of use Software • Purchasing of software tools for e-mail management, blogs and ... system software • Content management software • Database software • Virus protection software • SPAM prevention software • Web site software • Digital video and/ or photo imaging and editing software ... the capacity of the stakeholder to handle the activity c Develop a list of activities a Put the steps in the correct order Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20
DETERMINATION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOC) IN CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND REACTIVE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN AEROSOL COATING PRODUCTS doc
... fraction of exempt compounds in the non-propellant portion WP = weight (gm) of propellant EP 4.1.2 = weight (gm) of the non-propellant portion, excluding container and packaging = weight (gm) of exempt ... (analysis of acetone and ethanol by gas chromatography) NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods, Volume (August 1994) 2.10 Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for Volatile Organics (analysis of exempt and ... Determination of Volatile Matter Content and Density of Printing Inks and Related Coatings: 40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A, as it existed on July 1, 1994 2.13 US EPA Reference Method 18, Measurement of Gaseous...
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