How is Satiety Affected When Consuming Food While Working on A Computer?

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is It A Wolf Consuming Fertility?

When is a computer not a computer?

We recently bought an IBM-BLOKBUSTR computer, after reading Osherson’s (1985) beguiling description of its ability to do the uncomputable. We had hoped to use it in our study of the human ability to generate music. But we ran into problems that we had not anticipated. Readers of this journal who plan to use this rather unusual machine in their research, might want to profit from our experience....

Fluid or Fuel? The Context of Consuming a Beverage Is Important for Satiety

Energy-containing beverages have a weak effect on satiety, limited by their fluid characteristics and perhaps because they are not considered 'food'. This study investigated whether the context of consuming a beverage can influence the satiating power of its nutrients. Eighty participants consumed a lower- (LE, 75 kcal) and higher-energy (HE, 272 kcal) version of a beverage (covertly manipulate...

Food worker experiences with and beliefs about working while ill.

Transmission of foodborne pathogens from ill food workers to diners in restaurants is an important cause of foodborne illness outbreaks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends that food workers with vomiting or diarrhea (symptoms of foodborne illness) be excluded from work. To understand the experiences and characteristics of workers who work while ill, workplace interviews were condu...

How to Use MRP in Continuous Production Industries When Order Type is Lot for Lot

The Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) method that is applied in production planning and management has some weaknesses. One of its weaknesses is that the time in MRP method is discrete, and is considered as time period. Hence we are not able to order our requirements at irregular time moments or periods. In this paper, a new form of MRP is introduced that is named Continuous Materials Requi...