Dietary strategies to reduce discretionary choice intake are commonly utilized in practice, but evidence on their relative efficacy is lacking. The aim was to compare the potential impact on nutritional intake of three strategies to reducing discretionary choices intake in the Australian adult (19-90 years) population. Dietary simulation modelling using data from the National Nutrition and Phys...

This article contends that it is time to take a critical look at a series of binary categories which have dominated the scholarly and reform epistemologies of the sentencing decision process. These binaries are: rules versus discretion; reason versus emotion; offence versus offender; normative principles versus incoherence; aggravating versus mitigating factors; and aggregate/tariff consistency...

in this research, role of accruals in elaboration of quality of earning of the companies accepted in mumbai stock exchange has been studied and relationship between quality of earning through accruals and its constituents and abnormal stock return has been studied. the studied sample includes 35 companies in group a of mumbai stock exchange in 2009-2013.fordata analysisandhypothesistesting mult...

Food-based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) promote healthy dietary patterns. Nutrient-based Front-of-Pack Labelling (NBFOPL) schemes rate the 'healthiness' of individual foods. This study aimed to investigate whether the Australian Health Star Rating (HSR) system aligns with the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs). The Mintel Global New Products Database was searched for every new food product disp...

When participants allocated time across two tasks (in which they generated as many words as possible from a fixed set of letters) they made frequent switches. This allowed them to allocate more time to the more productive task (i.e. the set of letters from which more words could be generated), even though times between the last word and the switch decision (“giving-up times”) were higher in the...

This article examines the discretionary power of national governments in EU policy making, focusing on the preparatory stage of European legislation. We assess the conditions under which the ministry in charge of the pre-negotiations is able to withstand attempts of domestic stakeholders to change the national bargaining stance. Our case studies and multivariate regressions on 15 legislative pr...