Social learning can be of critical importance to cattle grazing rangeland environments with high variability of food resources across space and time. Experienced individuals can greatly facilitate foraging decisions (what to eat and where to eat) of naïve peers in such settings. We conducted an experiment with cattle to investigate strength and persistence of socially induced food and feeding s...

OBJECTIVES Dishware size is thought to influence eating behaviors, but effects on children's self-served portion sizes and intakes have not been studied. We aimed to evaluate whether larger dishware increased children's self-served portion sizes and intake during meals. METHODS A within-subjects experimental design was used to test the effects of dishware size (ie, plates and bowls) on childr...

Objective: There are association between oxidative stress and incidence of some chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Food containing antioxidant compounds, such as some spices, are the natural ways to deal with oxidative stress. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sumac powder (Rhus coriaria L) on the glycemic profile in patients with T2DM. Materials ...

Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly carelessly produced, these conical bowls attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq Persian Gulf to highlands eastern Turkey Iran. Questions regarding function relationship with emergent state institutions have stood centre nearly a century debates about nat...

We use the link between the existence of tilings in Manhattan metric with {1}-bowls and minimum total dominating sets of Cartesian products of paths and cycles. From the existence of such a tiling, we deduce the asymptotical values of the total domination numbers of these graphs and we deduce the total domination numbers of some Cartesian products of cycles. Finally, we investigate the problem ...