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Poland Daily Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema


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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.

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Onion Consumption and Health


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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.

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Notes on Consumption Theory Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamic Models (Classroom Companion Economics)


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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.

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Dietary Fiber, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Health


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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.

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Reading Audio Readers Book Consumption in the Streaming Age (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures)


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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.

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Consumption as an Investment


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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.

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The IT Ops Sessions Reducing IT Energy Consumption


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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.

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Tea Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776


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English | December 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1501773216 | 402 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics.

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Patterns of News Consumption in a High-Choice Media Environment A Romanian Perspective


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English | ISBN: 3031419537 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Based on a Romanian case study, this book sheds light on the supply and demand of news and information in the current digital era, dominated by unprecedented dramatic changes. In addition to identifying patterns of journalistic reporting and news consumption, the book offers a thorough approach to how the classic theories in media and communication studies can be reinterpreted in the current attention economy and media abundance paradigm. The research data included in this book provide a snapshot of media consumption patterns and encompass experts’ views and predictions about how media habits and diets might evolve.

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Notes on Consumption Theory


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031549856 | 161 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 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.

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