Foraging decisions in nonhuman animals often require choosing between small, immediate food rewards and larger, more delayed rewards. Faced with such choices, animals typically discount or devalue the future quite strongly. Although discounting studies often focus on delays to reward access, other temporal intervals contribute to foraging rate, and thus may potentially influence discounting lev...

The study objective was to identify the circumstances where there was risk of contamination of food (hot dogs) prepared and sold on the streets and to establish a preventive action through the creation of key surveillance sites. Data were collected from 20 vending sites using interviews, questionnaires, observations of food handling and storage, and temperature and pH measurements of both meat ...

This study investigated the Jordanian consumers' knowledge and self-reported practices of safe food handling. A questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale was distributed on 300 randomly selected consumers. The answers of 208 respondents were analyzed. The results showed that Jordanian consumers follow some safety rules when they prepare or purchase food products while they lack awareness...