scholarly journals Assessing Label Frames and Emotional Primes in the Context of Animal Rearing—Response of an Explorative fNIRS Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5275
Author(s):  
Clara Mehlhose ◽  
Antje Risius
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Quality Aspects ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Quality Aspect ◽  
Societal Interest ◽  
Additional Product

Against the background of rising societal interest for sustainable food and nutrition choices, food labels have gained importance in providing important information to consumers. However, little is known about how the differences between quality frames in labels are evaluated and how priming might serve as an anchor for label perception. This study aims to observe the neural reaction of this in the context of differently framed food labels for products of animal origin, claiming the presence or absence of an additional quality aspect and under the impulse of emotional priming. In an explorative setup, we measured the neural prefrontal cortex activity of 26 participants with the neuroimaging technology fNIRS. An idyllic prime and a prime related to a label claiming an additional product quality led to increased neural activity in the OFC and dlPFC. Shedding light on what elements are of importance to identify products that meet consumers’ requirements in terms of quality aspects, this could indicate that the prime stressed the meaning of the label. This strengthens the argument to positively phrase and anchor frames regarding quality attributions as opposed to negative declarations. It further demonstrates the ability of fNIRS to capture processing through labels and primes in the context of consumer behavior.

Neural activity in macaque prefrontal cortex in flexible switching of search strategies

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. e276-e277
Author(s):  
Atsushi Fujimoto ◽  
Satoshi Nishida ◽  
Tadashi Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Search Strategies

scholarly journals Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Zurek ◽  
Aniek Hebinck ◽  
Adrian Leip ◽  
Joost Vervoort ◽  
Marijke Kuiper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Nutrition And Diet ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Eu

Steering the EU food system towards a sustainability transformation requires a vast and actionable knowledge base available to a range of public and private actors. Few have captured this complexity by assessing food systems from a multi-dimensional and multi-level perspective, which would include (1) nutrition and diet, environmental and economic outcomes together with social equity dimensions and (2) system interactions across country, EU and global scales. This paper addresses this gap in food systems research and science communication by providing an integrated analytical approach and new ways to communicate this complexity outside science. Based on a transdisciplinary science approach with continuous stakeholder input, the EU Horizon2020 project ‘Metrics, Models and Foresight for European SUStainable Food And Nutrition Security’ (SUSFANS) developed a five-step process: Creating a participatory space; designing a conceptual framework of the EU food system; developing food system performance metrics; designing a modelling toolbox and developing a visualization tool. The Sustainable Food and Nutrition-Visualizer, designed to communicate complex policy change-impacts and trade-off questions, enables an informed debate about trade-offs associated with options for change among food system actors as well as in the policy making arena. The discussion highlights points for further research related to indicator development, reach of assessment models, participatory processes and obstacles in science communication.

scholarly journals Utilization of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for sustainable food and nutrition security in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. e0204817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Mubaiwa ◽  
Vincenzo Fogliano ◽  
Cathrine Chidewe ◽  
Evert Jan Bakker ◽  
Anita R. Linnemann
Keyword(s):  
Arid Regions ◽  
Bambara Groundnut ◽  
Vigna Subterranea ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals XML schema metrics for quality evaluation

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1271-1289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Pusnik ◽  
Marjan Hericko ◽  
Zoran Budimac ◽  
Bostjan Sumak
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Xml Schema ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Business Information Systems ◽  
Quality Aspects ◽  
Schema Development ◽  
Quality Aspect ◽  
Definition Of

In XML Schema development, the quality of XML Schemas is a crucial issue for further steps in the life cycle of an application, closely correlated with the structure of XML Schemas and different building blocks. Current research focuses on measuring complexity of XML Schemas and mainly do not consider other quality aspects. This paper proposes a novel quality measuring approach, based on existing software engineering metrics, additionally defining quality aspect of XML Schemas in the following steps: (1) definition of six schema quality aspects, (2) adoption of 25 directly measurable XML Schema variables, (3) proposition of six composite metrics, applying 25 measured variables and (4) composite metrics validation. An experiment using 250 standard XML Schemas collected from available e-business information systems was conducted. The results illustrate influence of XML Schema characteristics on its quality and evaluate applicability of metrics in the measurement process, a useful tool for software developers while building or adopting XML Schemas.

Exploring the Consistency of Adults’ Food Choice motives with Sustainable Diet Components: a Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezoo Haghighian Roudsari ◽  
Abouali Vedadhir ◽  
Maryam Shokouhi ◽  
Ali Milani Bonab
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Sustainable Diet ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Todays, due to the impact of human food choices on increasing greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and environmental degradation, there is a new thinking about changing the pattern of food production and consumption, including sustainable food and nutrition system related to consumption. This study aimed to explore the dimensions of a sustainable diet among the determinants of people's food choices. Methods This qualitative study was carried out using an in-depth interview with 33 individuals aged 30-64 years old living in different areas of Tehran. Data gathering, data analysis and theoretical conceptualization were performed simultaneously and from the beginning of the research, and for managing and organizing the data, the MAXQDA 10 software was used. Results In this paper, the findings are categorized according to the key components of a sustainable diet in five themes: "Health and Nutrition", "Food and Agriculture Security", "Environment and Ecosystems", "Markets, food trade and production chains", "social, cultural, and policy factors" were categorized. Meanwhile, the components of the "Health and Nutrition" domain had the highest contribution and the components of the two domains "food and agriculture" and "environment and ecosystems" had the lowest role among the statements of the participants in this study. Conclusion considering to the low importance of the dimensions of a sustainable diet in food choices of the community, promoting the individual awareness of sustainable diet components, clarifying the importance of food choices in creating environmental impacts and leading the national macro policies in the field food and nutrition toward sustainable diet goals are essential.

Decalogue of Gran Canaria for sustainable food and nutrition in the community.

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
L. Serra-Majem ◽  
J. A. Bartrina ◽  
A. Ortiz-Andrellucchi ◽  
C. Ruano-Rodriguez ◽  
E. Gonz�lez-Padilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Gran Canaria ◽  
Food And Nutrition

Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food and nutrition security

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-255
Author(s):  
Giovanni Ottomano Palmisano ◽  
Francesco Bottalico ◽  
Hamid El Bilali ◽  
Gianluigi Cardone ◽  
Roberto Capone
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Food Losses

Contribution of Human Prefrontal Cortex to Delay Performance

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Chao ◽  
Robert T. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Silent Period ◽  
Primary Auditory Cortex ◽  
Association Cortex ◽  
Focal Lesions ◽  
Delay Performance ◽  
Dorsolateral Prefrontal ◽  
Auditory Association Cortex

Neurological patients with focal lesions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and age-matched control subjects were tested on an auditory version of the delayed-match-to-sample task employing environmental sounds. Subjects had to indicate whether a cue (S1) and a subsequent target sound (S2) were identical. On some trials, S1 and S2 were separated by a silent period of 5 sec. On other trials, the 5-sec delay between S1 and S2 was filled with irrelevant tone pips that served as distractors. Behaviorally, frontal patients were impaired by the presence of distractors. Electrophysiologically, patients generated enhanced primary auditory cortex-evoked responses to the tone pips, supporting a failure in inhibitory control of sensory processing after prefrontal damage. Intrahemispheric reductions of neural activity generated in the auditory association cortex and additional intrahemispheric reductions of attention-related frontal activity were also observed in the prefrontal patients. Together, these findings suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is crucial for gating distracting information as well as maintaining distributed intrahemispheric neural activity during auditory working memory.

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