The traditional literature on food demand has been based on the premise that consumers gain direct benefits from consumption of goods purchased at the market and has estimated the effect of prices, income and quality indicators on food purchases. However, for the most part, traditional demand studies that use prices and income as explanatory variables explain less than 50 percent of the variati...

Underlying changes in demographics and travel are an important set of social and personal choices that determine behavior. California's reputation as a trendsetter for the rest of the nation in terms of social developments and public policy is primarily driven by the dynamic shifts in lifestyle choices of our state's individual residents and communities. These lifestyle choices and trends are i...

Communities and governments in all societies provide social assistance for temporary setbacks and long-lasting misfortunes that befall individuals and households. EU countries have traditionally provided a relatively extensive safety net supported by the success of their market economies. Now EU social welfare systems are being subjected to massive shifts in demographics, to difficulty in finan...

OBJECTIVE It has been observed during recent decades that a large percentage of the population has an inadequate lifestyle and that there is a need for identifying factors determining such behavior pattern. This study was thus aimed at determining the association between lifestyle and sociodemographic variables of freshmen attending a state university in southern Brazil. METHODS The sample co...

Role of nonhost environments in the lifestyles of Salmonella and Escherichia coli."

Bacteria belonging to the genera Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus participate in a trilateral symbiosis in which they enable their nematode hosts to parasitize insect larvae. The bacteria switch from persisting peacefully in a nematode's digestive tract to a lifestyle in which pathways to produce insecticidal toxins, degrading enzymes to digest the insect for consumption, and antibiotics to ward of...