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CONSUMER USE OF NUTRITION LABELS ON PACKAGED MEATS
Consumer perceptions of the importance of nutritional labeling of fresh meats and knowledge of nutritional terms have been presented in the Journal of Food Distribution Research (Piedra, et al 1995). This article presents follow up information on consumer reported uses of nutritional labels on packaged meats and the specific nutrients that the consumers check for on packaged meats. The results indicate that consumers use nutrition labels to check for desirable dietary components and to compare nutrient content among meats as well as to check for the presence of undesirable dietary components in packaged meats.Consumer/Household Economics,
HOUSEHOLD PERCEPTIONS OF THE NUTRITIONAL LABELING OF MEATS
Previous research on the relationship between diet and health has increased consumer interest in the nutritional content of specific foods. Federal programs, such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and The Food Pyramid, have had similar impacts. A 1994 mail survey of 3,080 Louisiana households in eight rural and urban parishes examined consumer awareness of the nutritional labeling of fresh meats and its importance. Rural respondents placed more emphasis on nutritional labeling than did urban respondents. The respondents also ranked three descriptive terms (lean, extra lean and low fat) for fat content as defined by the USDA. Eighteen percent of households ranked them correctly with white households displaying better ranking capability. These results tend to justify an earlier decision by Congress to implement legislation covering the nutritional labeling of fresh meats.Consumer/Household Economics,
Guiding the Eye: A Non-photorealistic Solution for Controlling Viewer Interest
In film and still photography, depth of field control is often employed to control
viewer interest in an image. This technique is also used in computer animation, but, in a
medium where artists have near infinite control, must we rely on replicating photorealism?
This research is a viable, non-photorealistic solution to the problem of directing
viewer interest. Vision is directed by reducing superfluous visual information from parts
of the image, which do not directly affect the depictive meaning of that image. This
concept is applied to images and animations rendered from three-dimensional, computergenerated
scenes, where detail is defined as visual information pertaining to the surface
properties of a given object. A system is developed to demonstrate this concept. The
system uses distance from a user-defined origin as the main mechanism to modulate
detail. This solution is implemented within a modeling and shading environment to
serve as a non-photorealistic, functional alternative for depth of field. This approach is
conceptually based on a model of human vision, specifically, the relationship between
foveal and peripheral vision, and is artistically driven by various works in the disciplines of painting and illustration, that through the careful manipulation of detail, control
interest and understanding within the image.
The resulting images and animations produced by this system provide viable
evidence that detail modulation can be used to control effectively viewer interest in an
image eliminating the need to use photographic techniques like depth of field
Gravitino perturbations in Schwarzschild black holes
We consider the time evolution of massless gravitino perturbations in
Schwarzschild black holes, and show that as in the case of fields of other
values of spin, the evolution comes in three stages, after an initial outburst
as a first stage, we observe the damped oscillations characteristic of the
quasinormal ringing stage, followed by long time tails. Using the sixth order
WKB method and Prony fitting of time domain data we determine the quasinormal
frequencies. There is a good correspondence between the results obtained by the
above two methods, and we obtain a considerable improvement with respect to the
previously obtained third order WKB results. We also show that the response of
a black hole depends crucially on the spin class of the perturbing field: the
quality factor becomes a decreasing function of the spin for boson
perturbations, whereas the opposite situation appears for fermion ones
Women and sport in films in twenty-first century (2000-2009)
Este documento profundiza en el rol y cualidades asociadas a la mujer en el cine deportivo de la primera década del siglo XXI, objeto de estudio poco habitual en el campo de la investigación cinematográfica. Para ello, se determinó una muestra compuesta por 74 pelÃculas, seleccionadas a través de un muestreo no probabilÃstico por cuotas y mediante un diseño de investigación de tipo descriptivo, siendo el análisis de contenido el instrumento elegido para llevarlo a cabo. Los resultados mostraron que se reflejaba con fidelidad el modelo deportivo imperante en la actualidad, asà como el canon moderno que se atribuye al sexo femenino, lo cual deberÃa cuestionar el modelo que se muestra y perpetúa en este tipo de produccionesThis paper explores the roles and qualities of women in sport films from the first decade of the twenty-first century, which is an unusual subject of study in the field of film research. For this purpose we analysed a sample of 74 films that were selected through a non-probability quota sampling and using a descriptive investigation model. The sample was determined by way of content analysis. The results showed that the films reflected the current sports model, as well as the modern female stereotypes. This should help to question the current model shown in these types of film
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