Soyfoods have been a part of Asian diets for centuries. Today, there is a growing interest in these foods among westerners because of their proposed health benefits and also because their versatility makes them valuable for replacing meat and dairy foods in the diet. Nevertheless, the role of soyfoods in a healthy diet has become somewhat of a confusing issue in recent years because of concerns...

This paper presents a novel device called Sense Diary for intelligent buildings. To introduce the new device and its applied system, a brief review of sensor-based systems applied in buildings has been conducted, which is based on current literature and products. The aim of this review is to understand current research and development situation of sensor-based systems that have been developed f...

An online diary study was performed to investigate deception across different media. One hundred and four individuals participated in the study, with 76 completing the diaries. Individuals were most likely to lie on the telephone. Planned lies, which participants also rated the most serious, were more likely told via SMS (short message service) text messaging. Most lies were told to people part...

Whey is a by product in the process of cheese production. Composition and characteristics of whey are depending on the production technology of the end product and on the quality of the used milk. Liquid whey consists approximately 93% of water and contains almost 50% of total solids present in the milk of which lactose is the main constituent. Lactose is the main constituent of whey while prot...

Safety and beneficence of farm animal nutrition plays a great role in their healthy life which in turn have impact on human nutrition via diary or meat products. Assessing safety and beneficence of Vicia varibilis Freyn and Sint. Which is chosen intrinsically by domesticated animals of Kohgiluyehand Boyerahmad Iranis the aim of the present work. Our results not only show no cytotoxic activity i...

Objectives: Time-use has become an important field of research in social and medical sciences. Time diary is the most popular method for measuring time-use that has 2 different methods of administration including yesterday and tomorrow diary. The present study aimed to compare these methods of measuring time-use.  Methods: This cross-sectional comparative study was conducted on 256 under 5-yea...

This study evaluated the use of location history as a predictor of user interests in products and services. Over a 1-month time period, subjects used a voicemail or email diary to report their visits to various establishments, such as shops and restaurants. At the end of the study, they completed questionnaires asking about their demographic characteristics, as well as their use of advanced mob...

We aimed to examine the connections between individual affective characteristics and crying, and to evaluate Rottenberg, Bylsma, and Vingerhoets’ (2008) framework for studying crying and mood. We analyzed the relationship among features of the social environment, mood characteristics of the crier, crying frequency/urge to cry, and mood change across 1004 detailed crying episodes sampled from 97...