Tag: Consumption

Free Download Adam Mazzei, "Alcoholic Beverage Consumption and Health "
English | ISBN: 1607411601 | 2009 | 259 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits. Such beverages contain ethanol, a psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. The relationship between alcohol consumption and health has been the subject of formal scientific research since at least 1926. Moderate alcohol use seems to offer some health benefits, particularly for the heart, but too much alcohol puts a person at risk of adverse health consequences. This book provides current research on alcohol and health. Included is the relationship between alcohol and coronary artery disease and the erosion potential of alcohol on teeth. Since it is generally accepted that about one-third of all cancers are related to dietary factors, this book reviews the modulating effects of red wine and beer on heterocyclic aromatic amines carcinogenesis and how to minimise the formation of these compounds. Research on ochratoxin, a compound found in wine, is also presented due to its importance on health.

Free Download Bartoli Mendez, "Household Energy:: Economics, Consumption and Efficiency "
English | ISBN: 1614705038 | 2011 | 219 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book presents topical research in the study of the economics, consumption and efficiency of household energy. Topics discussed include renovation solutions for improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings; features and technology of the zero-energy home; traveler response to the gas price spike; the economic impacts of energy taxes versus household-level emissions caps; promoting sustainable development through integrated wood stove technology, aforestation and agro-aquaculture; and the contribution of social and environmental psychology for understanding and promoting household energy conservation.

Free Download Decreasing Fuel Consumption and Exhaust Gas Emissions in Transportation: Sensing, Control and Reduction of Emissions By Michael Palocz-Andresen (auth.)
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 3642119751 | PDF | 7 MB
Within all areas of transportation, solutions for economical and environmentally friendly technology are being examined. Fuel consumption, combustion processes, control and limitation of pollutants in the exhaust gas are technological problems, for which guidelines like 98/69/EC and 99/96 determine the processes for the reduction of fuel consumption and exhaust gas emissions. Apart from technological solutions, the consequences of international legislation and their effects on environmental and climate protection in the area of the transportation are discussed.

Free Download Ewa Mazierska, "Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1785335367 | 2017 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar "embedded liberalism," through the state socialism of the Soviet era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has been inflected by these changing historical circumstances, both mirroring and resisting them. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history―from the reemergence of an independent Poland in 1918 to the present day―through the lenses of political economy and social class, showing how Polish cinema documented ordinary life while bearing the hallmarks of specific ideologies.

Free Download Candelario B. Aguirre, "Onion Consumption and Health "
English | ISBN: 1621008363 | 2012 | 192 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Flavonoids and organosulfur compounds are the two major classes of secondary metabolites found in onions that are believed to play a role as health-promoting, disease-preventing dietary supplements. In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of onion consumption and health effects.

Free Download Notes on Consumption Theory: Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamic Models (Classroom Companion: Economics) by Giuseppe Travaglini, Giorgio Calcagnini, Alessandro Bellocchi
English | April 5, 2024 | ISBN: 3031549856 | 161 pages | MOBI | 17 Mb
This textbook offers a compact, yet formal, synthesis of the broad field of consumption theory. Written in a coherent and accessible way, this book introduces graduate and postgraduate students to dynamic optimization applied to consumption under certainty and uncertainty, in discrete and continuous time. Delving into deterministic and stochastic models, including the use of Brownian motions, the book offers a deeper understanding of consumption decisions and their impact on asset pricing and investment in partial and general equilibrium.

Free Download Friedrich Klein, "Dietary Fiber, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Health "
English | ISBN: 1608760251 | 2010 | 251 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Fruits are an excellent source of essential vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibre in the human diet. They are also a rich source of secondary metabolites that are proving to play an important role in the protection against numerous chronic diseases. These substances are almost ubiquitous in plant-derived foods and inherently have more subtle effects than nutrients. This book explores the different processing methods used in the food industry, which may modify their contents, structure, and biological activity in humans. In addition, the relationships between dietary fibres and gut motility are explored since dietary fibres carry out many physiological functions in the gastrointestinal tract aimed at health preservation. This book also summarises recent progressions on the use of in vitro models to study health effects of dietary fibres and other nutrients using in vitro colon cell models. In addition, epidemiological studies evidence that plant-based food play a crucial role in the prevention of diseases. The authors highlight the potential of tropical and temperate fruits as sources of dietary fibre with associated antioxidant compounds. Other chapters in this book examine the fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity levels and body mass index among teenagers, explore new dietary strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) and discuss the potential of using alternative dietary assessment methods for researches of dietary fibre colorectal cancer.

Free Download Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures) by Karl Berglund
English | February 8, 2024 | ISBN: 1350358363 | 206 pages | MOBI | 5.74 Mb
The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: when it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it? Tracking hundreds of thousands of readers on the level per user and hour, Reading Audio Readers combines computational methods from cultural analytics with theoretical perspectives from book history, publishing studies, and media studies. In doing so, it provides new insights into reading practices in digital platforms, the effects of the audiobook boom, and the business-models for book publishing and distribution in the age of streamed audio.

Free Download Consumption as an Investment By Cosimo Perrotta
2004 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0415306191 | PDF | 4 MB
Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This ambitious project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies into the mainstream of economic thought.

Free Download The IT Ops Sessions Reducing IT Energy Consumption
Published 12/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz
Language: English | Size: 53.53 MB | Duration: 26m 21s
In this IT Ops session, you’ll learn about how the IT industry has already successfully reduced its energy consumption, what technologies and trends have been applied to the problem, and what might still lie ahead.