Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city, supports a vibrant street food culture. Most of the city’s street-engaged traders are poor and unskilled women, there is scant research about how they build social networks capital that sustain their microbusinesses. This article focusses on intimate socialities develop with customers, shop owners sister-traders in order to stabilise incomes while infor...

The notion of time plays an important role in any intelligent activities Time is represented either im plicitly or explicitly We are interested in explicit representation of time The popular approaches for such representation are based on points or intervals or a hybrid of both Propositional temporal asser tions are represented as relations among the points or among the intervals The inde nite ...

It is popularly said that ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the ~ . i y ’ ; however, like many apparently simple statements this raises questions that turn out to be rather difficult to answer. An obvious question is: important for what? It seems that the phrase usually implies some short-term benefit, such as the avoidance of hunger later in the morning, or the optimization of performan...

Purpose – A number of interventions aimed at increasing breakfast consumption have been designed and implemented in recent years. This paper seeks to review the current research in this area with the aim of identifying common features of successful interventions and strengths and weaknesses in the current research methodology. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic review of interventions a...

Pre-exercise nutritional practices for active females exercising for mood, cognitive and appetite benefits are not well established. Results from an initial field pilot study showed that higher energy intake at breakfast was associated with lower fatigue and higher overall mood and alertness post-exercise (all p < 0.05). In a follow-up, randomised, controlled trial, 24 active women completed th...

ver the past several decades, researchers have suspected and confirmed various links between breakfast consumption and adolescent academic performance, although the reasons for these cognitive consequences are not fully explored nor understood (Dye & Blundell, 2002; Giovannini, Agostoni, & Shamir, 2010; Murphy, 2007). More specifically, it has not yet been determined precisely what roles variou...

The present study examined the impact of breakfast and exercise on postprandial metabolism, appetite and macronutrient balance. A sample of twelve (blood variables n 11) physically active males completed four trials in a randomised, crossover design comprising a continued overnight fast followed by: (1) rest without breakfast (FR); (2) exercise without breakfast (FE); (3) breakfast consumption ...

INTRODUCTION Meal patterns have received little attention in nutrition studies. The aim of this study is to present the findings on general meal patterns of Malaysian adults. METHODS The Malaysian Adults Nutrition Survey (MANS), carried out in 2002 and 2003, involved 6,928 adults selected by stratified random sampling from all households by zone in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. RE...