The objective of this research was to look into the self-reported food consumption and wastage behavior in Brazil during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak motivations prevent waste. data were collected Brazil, May 2020, using a self-administered questionnaire with 60 questions on characterization waste behaviors. target audience comprised Brazilian residents responsible for household purchases; out 48...

OBJECTIVE To document food acquisition experiences during Iraqi military occupation in Kuwait. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING Urban areas in Kuwait during occupation. SUBJECTS Those living in Kuwait during the period of occupation, and aged between 15 to 50 years at the time of occupation, recruited by snowball sampling. A total of 390 completed questionnaires (respon...

Some laboratory mice gnaw food pellets without ingesting much of the gnawed material, resulting in the production of waste material called 'orts'. The fact that this food grinding behavior is not seen in all individuals of a particular strain suggests that it might be abnormal, and thus indicate a welfare concern. Furthermore, the increased rate of feed consumption and cage soiling is undesirab...

Now a days, the usage of electronic appliances is increasing. In the offices, employees left their rooms without switching off the electrical appliances. So the power wastage increases. This power wastage can be reduced by making an intelligent system, which can control the electrical appliances automatically based on the requirement. The whole system is implemented and tested on FPGA.

ing " hospitals, but four were small hospitals with fewer than 30 recruits a year. It would be interesting to know how these four had reached this enviable level of student morale. The interesting part about the hospitals with " high " wastage rates was that the students who went to them after attaining high levels in the school-leaving certificate were less successful than would have been expe...

Building energy management (BEM) system can provide cost-effective energy management solutions for smart buildings. However, the success of BEM is contingent on identifying large energy consuming devices, monitoring energy usage, optimal scheduling of flexible appliances, and distinguishing and controlling energy wastage. To this end, this paper discusses the design of Internet of Things (IoT) ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthetic drugs and material wastage are common in operation rooms (ORs). In this era of escalating health-care expenditure, cost reduction strategies are highly relevant. The aim of this study was to assess the amount of daily intravenous anesthetic drug wastage from major ORs and to estimate its financial burden. Any preventive measures to minimize drug wastage are ...

Ungulate grazing and trampling strongly affect pastures and ecosystems throughout the world. Ecological population models are used for studying these systems and determining the guidelines for sustainable and economically viable management. However, the effect of trampling and other resource wastage is either not taken into account or quantified with data in earlier models. Also, the ability of...

With the economic growth and living standard improvement, food waste has become increasingly common among Chinese youth. To test whether body size affects performance of youth, we examined university students as representative youth conducted a large-sample survey in 29 universities across provinces. Based on 9192 questionnaires collected from college canteens, found that was correlated with wa...